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Sacrifice

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Sacrifice
Sacrifice cover
Developers
Shiny Entertainment
Mac OS (Classic) MumboJumbo[1]
macOS (OS X) MumboJumbo
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Re-release Sold Out Software
Mac OS MacPlay
OS X MacPlay
Release dates
Windows November 17, 2000
Mac OS (Classic) December 24, 2001
macOS (OS X) December 24, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Genres RPG, Strategy
Themes Fantasy
Sacrifice on HowLongToBeat
Sacrifice on MobyGames
Sacrifice on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Sacrifice is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person RPG and strategy game.

General information

Sacrifice Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SafeDisc 2.50 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
CD key
Pre-patched for modern systems. Serial keys for multiplayer available by request to GOG support team.[4]
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Multiplayer key not provided.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is available from Patches-Scrolls.

dgVoodoo 2 wrapper

Configuring dgVoodoo 2[citation needed]
  1. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract the contents of the MS\x86 subfolder and dgVoodooCpl.exe into <path-to-game>.
  3. Use dgVoodooCpl.exe to configure settings as desired.
  4. Start the game, click OK when asked to choose a Direct3D Driver (each box should mention dgVoodoo).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Shiny Entertainment\Sacrifice\Options[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/38440/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 4]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/38440/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Force through dgVoodoo 2.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Labeled as "Triple Buffering". Disable GSYNC in the Nvidia Control Panel to avoid instant startup crash.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped to 30 FPS by default. Handled by the Target framerate value in the registry, but editing it negatively affects gameplay.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Use the Sacrifice FOV Fix[5]
The file has a .7z suffix, but it is a RAR file. If problems arise extracting the archive, rename the file suffix to .rar instead.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Seems to apply negative mouse acceleration if 'Enhance pointer precision' setting in Windows is turned on.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
On by default.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 1 & 2
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and Steam only.
German
Retail and Steam; download for GOG.com version
Italian
Retail and Steam only.
Polish
Retail and GOG.com only.
Russian
Unofficial translation by Fargus. Attached as bonus to GOG.com version.
Spanish
Retail and Steam only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
4
Online play
4 GameSpy services have been shut down;[6] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 2302-2400, 6073
UDP 2302-2400, 6073
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution.
Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Issues fixed

"Insufficient page file space" error

Disable memory check[7]
  1. Download and extract the Lame Patcher program.
  2. Download the Sacrifice pagefile for said program.
  3. Run lpatch.exe and use it to load the pagefile from the previous step. Press OK and select Sacrifice.exe to patch the executable.

Error initializing graphics library in map editor (scapex.exe)

Run scapex.exe in 16-bit color mode.[8]

Notes

  • On a multi-monitor system, keep the editor on the first screen.
Remove registry settings
  • Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Shiny Entertainment\Sacrifice\Scapex\scapex\Frame in the Registry Editor.
  • Remove or adjust values left, right, Top and Bottom

No mouse/keyboard access for ReShade overlay

Use dinputto8[citation needed]

Compatibility issues on modern systems

See dgVoodoo 2 wrapper

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Smacker
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, Me
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0a compatible
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 9.2
Processor (CPU) PowerPC G3 350 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
  2. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  3. 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/38440/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (38440) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  4. 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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References