Shadowgrounds: Survivor

Shadowgrounds
Shadowgrounds	2005
Shadowgrounds: Survivor	2007

Key points

Game progress is only saved in-between levels. It's due to a technical limitation in the game engine.^[1]

General information

Official Forum

General series tech support (Windows)

General series tech support (OS X & Linux)

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Polish copies use StarForce 5 DRM.
Developer website
Amazon.com
GOG.com
Humble Store
Steam

Game data

In-game options menu.

External audio settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Config\^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$HOME/.frozenbyte/survivor/
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11200/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Profiles\^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$HOME/.frozenbyte/survivor/
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11200/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

External general settings.

External advanced graphics settings.

External physics settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Resolutions up to 1920x1080.^[2] See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Up to 8 samples.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Up to 4 samples.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	No frame rate or refresh rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Set custom resolution^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration files location. Open `options.txt`. Change `screen_height =` and `screen_width =` to the desired resolution.

Field of view (FOV)

Set custom FOV^[3]
Go to the installation folder. Open `Data1.fbz` with 7-Zip. Go into `Data\Misc`. Extract `default_game_options.txt` to any folder. Open `default_game_options.txt`. Change `camera_default_fov = 120` to the desired FOV. Save the changes and replace the original file in the archive.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Enable borderless fullscreen^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `options.txt`. Change the following values as noted. `maximize_window = 1` `window_titlebar = 0` `windowed = 1` Save the changes.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	4	Co-op Shared-screen. Other players must use controllers.
LAN play
Online play

Issues unresolved

Game crashes after loading a level

Most commonly happens on the levels Backups Missing, Inferno, Dead Colony and Keep Your Claws Off.

Devs are unable to determine what causes the problem.

Download a save file^{[citation needed]}
Check your save file by going to \profiles\<user-id>\save\, it should be named save_xx.dhs with xx being a number. Download a save file here that is above your current number (i.e. if your current save file is save_8.dhs you would need to download save_9.dhs). Place the save file you just downloaded in the same folder you found the original save file in.

Use a script file^{[citation needed]}
Download this script file and extract it to the installation folder.

Issues fixed

Water-rendering bug in Chapter 5: Sewers

According to a Frozenbyte developer, it is not likely they will fix this bug.^[4]

Use console command^{[citation needed]}
Press `F8` to bring down the console and enter `/render_distortion 0`

Disable anti-aliasing^{[citation needed]}
Disable anti-aliasing in the setup dialog and the reflection should be fixed.

Crash after loading, save files and script from above don't help

Install PhysX Legacy^{[citation needed]}
Download and install NVIDIA PhysX Legacy System Software

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX
Audio	FMOD

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	Vista
Processor (CPU)	1.5 GHz	2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.1 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 ATI Radeon 9200 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	512 MB of VRAM

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6.5
Processor (CPU)	Intel Mac
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.08 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM OpenGL 2.0 compatible

OS X 10.9 or newer is not supported

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 10.10
Processor (CPU)	2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.08 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 6800 AMD Radeon HD 2800 OpenGL 2.0 compatible Shader model 3.0 support

Intel integrated graphic chipsets are not supported

Notes

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^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>/11200/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (11200) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ How the hell do I save my game? :: Shadowgrounds: Survivor General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
↑ Shadowgrounds: Survivor | WSGF
↑ Helix Mod: Shadowgrounds - last accessed on May 2023
↑ Frozenbyte Community • View topic - Chapter 5: Sewers duplicate render of game. - last accessed on 9 June 2023

[gamedir-2] 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).

[Proton_path_note-3] 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>/11200/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (11200) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] How the hell do I save my game? :: Shadowgrounds: Survivor General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023

[4] Shadowgrounds: Survivor | WSGF

[5] Helix Mod: Shadowgrounds - last accessed on May 2023

[6] Frozenbyte Community • View topic - Chapter 5: Sewers duplicate render of game. - last accessed on 9 June 2023

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Developers

	Frozenbyte
macOS (OS X)	Alternative Games
Linux	Alternative Games
Publishers
	Frozenbyte
Linux	Linux Game Publishing
Release dates
Windows	November 14, 2007
Linux	September 18, 2009
macOS (OS X)	April 12, 2011
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Series	Shadowgrounds