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Sniper: Path of Vengeance

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Sniper: Path of Vengeance
Sniper: Path of Vengeance cover
Developers
Mirage Interactive
Publishers
Xicat Interactive
German re-release Mirage Interactive
Russia 1C Company
Engines
Lithtech Jupiter
Release dates
Windows September 19, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 31
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles Realistic
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Key points

Titled A Mesterlövész in Hungary, Snajper in Poland.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check.
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
US release
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 2.33 updates the game to the latest version.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\lanuchp.txt[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\[Note 1]

Video

Launcher settings.
Launcher settings.
Video settings.
Video settings.
Other settings.
Other settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
4:3 resolutions only (for higher 4:3 resolutions see the WSGF entry).
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See 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
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Windowed

Set in autoexec.cfg[1]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open autoexec.cfg.
  3. Change "windowed" "0" to "windowed" "1".

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Hungarian
Polish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 [2]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 600 MHz Pentium III class processor or AMD Athlon processor
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 3D Accelerated video card
16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible
Other 4X CD-ROM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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

  1. Verified by User:Garrett on September 4, 2017
  2. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-08
    According to System Informer, the game loads d3d8.dll. dgVoodoo2's traces point to Direct3D 8 (e.g: "Direct3DDevice8").