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Shadow Man

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This page is for the original game. For the 2021 remaster, see Shadow Man Remastered.

Shadow Man
Shadow Man cover
Developers
Acclaim Studios Teesside
Publishers
Acclaim Entertainment
Russia Russobit-M
Digital Night Dive Studios
Release dates
Windows August 27, 1999
macOS (OS X) October 18, 2013[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure, Metroidvania
Art styles Stylized
Themes Fantasy, Horror, North America
Series Shadow Man
Shadow Man on HowLongToBeat
Shadow Man on IGDB
Shadow Man on MobyGames
Shadow Man on Wikipedia
Shadow Man
Shadow Man 1999
Shadow Man Remastered 2021

Shadow Man is a singleplayer third-person action, adventure and metroidvania game in the Shadow Man series.

Key points

AI and animations only function properly at 60 FPS.[2]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
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)
SecuROM DRM.
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
Has been replaced with remaster
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Does not require Steam to run.[3] Has been replaced with remaster
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Patches

  • The latest official patch (US version only) is available at soggi.org.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Grafix.Cfg[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/251770/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/251770/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Launcher video settings.
Launcher video settings.
In-game detail settings.
In-game detail settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Supports up to 1920x1080. Vertical FOV is decreased with widescreen.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Supports bilinear and trilinear.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Supports triple buffering.
60 FPS
AI and animations only function properly at 60 FPS.
120+ FPS
The game is unplayable at very high frame rates.[4]

Windowed

Force windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. Download wndmode.
  2. Extract to the installation folder.
  3. Edit wndmode.ini.
  4. Set Border=0 to remove window border.

Input

In-game mouse settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game key remapping.
In-game key remapping.

Audio

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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effects, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Appear during cutscenes.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Local retail only.
Spanish

Issues fixed

Low frame rate in fullscreen mode

Force windowed mode[citation needed]

Window border in fullscreen mode

The Steam version is already patched.[5]
Fix fullscreen border[citation needed]

Train engineer key crash

When playing in French, Italian, or Spanish, the game crashes when using the engineer's key to start the train.
Change language to english[citation needed]
Fix crash bug[citation needed]

Uncontrollable character movement

Limit frame rate to 60fps[citation needed]
Enable Vsync in advanced option game and set monitor to 60hz[citation needed]

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
Z3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Was allegedly playable on macOS Catalina before mid-2020.[6]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System

Modifications

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 MB
Video card (GPU) Direct3D compatible 3D accelerator card
3dfx Voodoo
4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5 compatible
Other 8X CD-ROM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/251770/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (251770) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References