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Post Mortem

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Post Mortem
Post Mortem cover
Developers
Microids
Publishers
The Adventure Company
Anuman Interactive
DreamCatcher Interactive
Russia 1C Company
Digital Microids
Engines
Virtools
Release dates
Windows November 1, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 71
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives First-person, Cinematic camera
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Pre-rendered graphics
Themes Detective/mystery
Series Still Life
Post Mortem on HowLongToBeat
Post Mortem on IGDB
Post Mortem on MobyGames
Post Mortem on Wikipedia
Still Life
Post Mortem 2002
Still Life 2005
Still Life 2 2009

Post Mortem is a singleplayer first-person and cinematic camera adventure game in the Still Life series.

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)
English copies use SafeDisc V2 DRM[Note 1]. French copies use LaserLock DRM.
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Create a dummy video file[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Video.
  2. Back up intro_Microids.par file.
  3. Create a new empty text file named intro_Microids.par.
  4. Start the game.

Notes

Deleting video files instead of creating empty ones will cause a CTD.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Post_Mortem Saves\
<path-to-game>\Post_Mortem Saves\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46550/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Post_Mortem Saves\
<path-to-game>\Post_Mortem Saves\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46550/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Set Widescreen Resolution in DgVoodoo2, launch game, alt tab out, then back in game again, alt tab out again and back in and menu should look small, repeat out and in one more time and resolution should be widescreen with correct ui centreing.
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)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Windowed

Create a .ini file[4]
  1. Create a file named player.ini in the installation folder with the following content:
    800 600 16 0 BaseCMO.cmo
  2. Save the file.
  3. Start the game.

Notes

In order to disable windowed mode just delete the .ini file or change 0 to 1.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Retail only. link #1
French
German
Italian
Polish
Retail, Steam and Zoom Platform only.
Russian
Retail only.
Spanish

Issues fixed

3D Engine Error

3D engine initialization failed error or a 3D accelerator not found error (commonly found in Windows 8 and later).
Use dgVoodoo 2[citation needed]
  1. Download dgVoodoo2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and the files from the MS\x86 subfolder to <path-to-game>.
  3. Optionally, use dgVoodooCpl.exe to disable the dgVoodoo2 watermark and force higher antialiasing options instead of using the in-game option.

Notes

If the game runs in a window at the top left area of the desktop after using dgVoodoo2, use Alt+ Enter to toggle to fullscreen.

Startup crash

The game may fail to start if you have too many fonts installed (especially present when running under Linux due to a bug in wine).
Modify a DLL file
  1. Open <path-to-game>\VxMath.dll in a hex editor (e.g. HxD).
  2. Search for the following as hex
    • 66 89 43 06 25 FF FF 00 00 50 E8 61
  3. Replace it with
    • 66 89 43 06 90 90 90 90 90 50 E8 61
  4. Save the changes.

Notes

The names of all installed fonts are stored in a single string. This allows strings >64KB to be stored.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 350 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 470 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 compatible


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/46550/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (46550) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References