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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2

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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 cover
Developers
City Interactive
Publishers
City Interactive
Engines
CryEngine 3
Release dates
Windows March 12, 2013
Reception
Metacritic 52
IGDB 52
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter, Stealth
Art styles Realistic
Themes Asia, Contemporary, Europe
Series Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 on HowLongToBeat
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 on IGDB
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 guide on StrategyWiki
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 on MobyGames
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 on Wikipedia
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Single-player only.
Includes Siberian Strike and Digital Extras DLC.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
itch.io
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Digital Extras 4 multiplayer character and the game Soundtrack in WAV format.
Windows
World Hunter Pack
Windows
Siberian Strike
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Disable company logos[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Game\_FastLoad\.
  2. Rename/move/delete IntroMovies.pak.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\system.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/34870/pfx/[Note 2]
Game data files (.pak files) are ordinary ZIP archives and can be extracted and modified.
There are many .cfg files within .pak files with configuration variables. You can experiment with different setting by placing these cvars in config.cfg or autoexec.cfg.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\SniperGhostWarrior2
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/34870/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Basic settings.
Basic settings.
Advanced settings.
Advanced settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
UI elements on side monitors.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Game may set refresh rate to 24 Hz. See Run the game at screen refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Crossfire

Use the Crysis2 crossfire profile.

Field of view (FOV)

This game uses vertical FOV. See FOV Calculator for help.
Field of view[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open system.cfg.
  3. Add these lines and change xx for your desired FoV value:
cl_fov = xx
r_drawnearfov = xx
pl_movement.power_sprint_targetfov = xx

Disable motion blur

Disable motion blur[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open autoexec.cfg (Create it if necessary).
  3. Add line r_MotionBlur = 0 and save.

Disable SSAO

This will disable screen space ambient occlusion effect (shadows around object) and gain 20% frame rate boost.
Disable SSAO[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open autoexec.cfg (Create it if necessary).
  3. Add line r_SSAO = 0 and save.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Polish
Spanish


Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
12
Online play
12

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile, see here.

Issues fixed

Errors at launch

Some users have reported that having ASCII characters in your Steam nickname will cause errors at launch.
Change your nickname to one with basic characters only[5]

Game doesn't save vsync settings

Activate Vsync and change your native resolution to another resolution and then back to your native resolution.

Notes

The resolution must be changed every time the game is opened, otherwise the game will not accept vsync even if it is activated.

Low/inconsistent framerate with V-Sync enabled

Updates to Windows 10 have resulted in incompatibility with older CryEngine games, which may result in a capped frame rate.[6]
Set Low Latency Mode to Ultra[7]
  1. Go to the Nvidia control panel, set Low Latency Mode to Ultra for Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 in the "Manage 3D Settings" tab and press Apply.
Set max frame rate to 1000 in Nvidia control panel[8]
  1. Go to the Nvidia control panel, set max frame rate to 1000 for Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 in the "Manage 3D Settings" tab and press Apply.
Apply RTSS framerate limiter[9][10]
  1. Download and install RivaTuner Statistics Server.
  2. Run it.
  3. Click the "add" button and navigate to where you installed Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 and add SniperGhostWarrior2.exe.
  4. Set framerate limiter to any number (e.g. 200).
  5. Minimize (don't close) the program.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

CryEngine 3 may set the monitor's refresh rate to the lowest supported refresh rate, resulting in choppy gameplay even if the internal GPU render shows a high FPS.
Override refresh rate set by game[11]
  1. Download 3Dmigoto.
  2. Copy the files in x32 to <path-to-game>\Bin32\.
  3. Open d3dx.ini.
  4. Change ;refresh_rate=60 to the desired value, and remove the semicolon (e.g. refresh_rate=144).
  5. Change hunting=1 to ;hunting=1.
  6. Save the changes and close the file.
Play the game in DirectX 9[11]
Workaround with a deprecated fullscreen setting[12]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\system.cfg.
  2. Set Fullscreen to 0.

Notes

If the in-game fullscreen setting is set to on, the game will return to fullscreen with unlocked framerate upon reaching the menu.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c, 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 x2 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
AMD Radeon 3850
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  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>/34870/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (34870) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-15
  2. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-15
  3. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-15
  4. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-15
  5. Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 :: Steam General Discussions :: "Invalid parameter detected in CRT function" WHAT IS THIS? - last accessed on May 2023
  6. Reddit - last accessed on May 2023
  7. forums.guru3d.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  8. Reddit - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  9. Crysis 2 and 3 locked at 65fps - last accessed on May 2023
  10. Verified by User:Vlad 54rus on 2021-03-23
  11. 11.0 11.1 Verified by User:Keith on 2020-04-29
  12. Verified by User:Gymon on 2022-05-10