Battlestrike: Shadow of Stalingrad

Battlestrike
Battlestrike: Call to Victory	2004
Battlestrike: The Road to Berlin	2004
Battlestrike: The Siege	2005
Battlestrike: Secret Weapons	2006
Battlestrike: Force of Resistance	2008
Battlestrike: Shadow of Stalingrad	2009

Battlestrike: Shadow of Stalingrad is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Battlestrike series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GamersGate

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%PUBLIC%\Public Documents\City Interactive\Battlestrike Force Of Resistance 2\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%PUBLIC%\Public Documents\City Interactive\Battlestrike Force Of Resistance 2\Save

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Hor+.
Multi-monitor		Hor+.
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+.
4K Ultra HD		Hor+.
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Start the game with `+windowed 1` parameter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Field of view (FOV)

This game uses vertical FOV. See FOV Calculator for help.

Set custom FOV^[1]
Go to `<path-to-game>`. Edit or create `autoexec.cfg` with Notepad. Add `"FovY" "XX"` on a new line, where XX is the desired vertical FOV.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Has mouse smoothing option but no acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

Slow loading level and aero disabling

Occurs only on Windows Vista and Windows 7, because of the special graphic stack WDDM.

Install game only on Windows XP, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10^[2]^[1]

Notes

Using Windows 8.1 or 10 significantly reduces the launch time of the level, perhaps this is due to improvements in the WDDM graphics stack.^[3]

Control key settings are not assigned

Keyboard settings reset to unassigned when restarting the game.

Run game as administrator^[1]

Soft Shadows not working

Soft Shadows not working despite the setting being enabled.

Disable anti-aliasing in the game options^[1]

Notes

This is due to the features of the engine and the artificial limitation of the simultaneous use of anti-aliasing with soft shadows, since they can cause graphic artifacts on the shadows.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	2.4 GHz or equivalent
System memory (RAM)	1024 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	GeForce 6600 or Radeon 9800 PRO Video Card 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-06-29
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↑ DirectX 12 & WDDM 2.0: Reworking the Windows Graphics Stack - last accessed on

[alphayellow-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-06-29

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[3] DirectX 12 & WDDM 2.0: Reworking the Windows Graphics Stack - last accessed on

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Developers

	City Interactive
Publishers
	City Interactive
Russia	Noviy Disk
Engines
	Lithtech Jupiter EX
Release dates
Windows	July 17, 2009
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Europe, Historical, World War II
Series	Battlestrike