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The Showdown Effect

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The Showdown Effect
The Showdown Effect cover
Developers
Arrowhead Game Studios
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Engines
Bitsquid
Release dates
Windows March 5, 2013
macOS (OS X) March 5, 2013
Taxonomy
Modes Multiplayer
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The Showdown Effect on Wikipedia

Key points

The game features the ability to stream directly to Twitch.
Due to severe lag compensation in multi-player games and reliance on P2P hosting instead of using dedicated servers, players with higher ping are likely to warp around the map and simultaneous kills may happen.

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Official forum

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
All versions require Steam DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Arrowhead\TheShowdownEffect\user_settings.conf
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Arrowhead/TheShowdownEffect/user_settings.config
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Arrowhead\TheShowdownEffect\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Arrowhead/TheShowdownEffect/
Steam <Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/204080/remote/saves/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Black bars on the sides of the screen.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
The window is fully resizable.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Game have no any fps cap, but input delay same as 60 fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Additional settings

Further configuration options can be found in the config file.
SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion)[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open user_settings.conf (Windows) or user_settings.config (OS X)
  3. Set ssao_enabled to true.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Developer has mentioned intention to implement controller support.[1]
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, voices, music and ambiance.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Only with zoltan's fix.[citation needed]
Online play
8 Versus, Co-op

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Laggy as hell[citation needed]
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues unresolved

Freezing on OS X

Freezes randomly on OS X.[2] The issue still hasn't been addressed in recent updates.

Issues fixed

Game crashes on start-up

The game happens to crash on some setups.
Game crashes on start-up[3]

A possible fix is removing all game files via Steam and reinstalling the game again.

Game crashes on start-up on a multi-monitor set-up[citation needed]

Make sure that the screen the game is supposed to appear on is enabled, otherwise the game will crash. Alternatively, change the setting in the config found here.

Black screen on launch

In some cases, the game may launch to a black screen with all the sounds still playing.
Black screen on launch[citation needed]

This can often be fixed by switching to windowed mode. To do this, open the config file and set the option fullscreen to false.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 10, 11
Vulkan
vulkan can be used only with ZEFIR001 tweek[citation needed]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9800
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
512 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9800
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
512 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/204080/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (204080) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Steam Community - last accessed on 28 May 2023
  2. Steam Community - last accessed on 28 May 2023
  3. Steam Community - last accessed on 9 June 2023