Hammer & Sickle
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| Developers | |
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| Nival Interactive | |
| Novik&Co | |
| Publishers | |
| Cdv Software Entertainment | |
| Engines | |
| Silent Storm Engine | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | December 9, 2005 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 52 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Genres | Tactical RPG |
| Themes | Cold War, Europe |
| Series | Silent Storm |
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| Silent Storm | |
|---|---|
| Silent Storm | 2003 |
| Hammer & Sickle | 2005 |
Warnings
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
Hammer & Sickle is a singleplayer Tactical RPG game in the Silent Storm series.
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | |
StarForce 3.5 DRM[Note 1] | |
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| Retail | |
Czech Extra Klasika release by CD Projekt | |
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.1 is the last patch for the game.
Unofficial English Patch 1.15 (H&S)
- Fixes some game-breaking issues.
- Turns other language releases to English.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\cfg\[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\save\[Note 2] |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | None, x2, x4, x8, x16 | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | Cannot be disabled (Low, Medium, High, Very high) | ||
| High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS | |||
| 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | Edit <path-to-game>\cfg\s3input.cfg |
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| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | Invert Turn X & Y, Invert Scroll X & Y | |
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
| Controller types |
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Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | Sound, Music, Character Responses mutable | |
| Surround sound | Dolby Surround 5.1 | |
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| German | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Czech | Retail Extra Klasika release by CD Projekt | |||
| Russian |
Issues fixed
Unsupported video card
WineD3D
- The game might simply lockup on certain setups, poor performance overall.
| Put WineD3D components in root installation folder[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 9 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 98 | 2000, ME, XP |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 3 1 GHz | Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce2 MX ATI Radeon 9000 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible | Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 9700 128 MB of VRAM |
| Other | Double-speed (2x) CD-ROM Drive | |
Notes
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%,%PROGRAMDATA%, or%WINDIR%might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).