For the enhanced version, containing all DLC rebalanced and properly integrated into the game's story, updated graphics and various additional enhancements, see Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition.
Sleeping Dogs
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United Front Games |
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Square Enix |
Russia |
Noviy Disk[1] |
Windows |
August 14, 2012 |
Metacritic |
80 |
IGDB |
82 |
Monetization |
One-time game purchase, DLC, Cross-game bonus |
Microtransactions |
Cosmetic, Boost |
Modes |
Singleplayer |
Pacing |
Real-time |
Perspectives |
Third-person |
Controls |
Direct control |
Genres |
Open world, Action, Brawler, Shooter |
Vehicles |
Automobile, Motorcycle, Bus, Street racing, Naval/watercraft |
Art styles |
Realistic |
Themes |
Asia, China, Contemporary, Detective/mystery |
Series |
Sleeping Dogs |
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Sleeping Dogs is a singleplayer third-person open world, action, brawler and shooter game in the Sleeping Dogs series.
Released in August of 2012, the game received positive reviews for its combat, voice acting, protagonist, experience system, and depiction of Hong Kong; its camera, driving physics, and some animations however were criticized. While selling over 1.5 million copies in little over a year, it did not meet Square Enix's sales expectations and was considered a "failure" alongside Tomb Raider and Hitman: Absolution.[2] However, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada defended the game's sales and said that the firm might have had unreasonably high expectations for Sleeping Dogs in particular.[3]
Four years later, after scrapping plans of a sequel and a negative reaction to it's online-only spin-off's beta, developer United Front Games closed it's doors on October 17th, 2016.[4] No reason was given for the company's closure.[5]
General information
- Sleeping Dogs Wiki
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- All versions require Steam DRM; digital versions do not contain serial keys, instead registering directly onto the Steam ID.[6]
- Steam version is no longer directly available for purchase, although existing owners can still purchase the DLCs.
- A free demo is available from Steam:
steam://install/215220
Monetization
- The following DLC will not load due to not being supported when language is set to Russian.
- Monkey King Pack
- Movie Masters Pack
- Year of the Snake
- Zodiac Tournament
Type |
Notes |
Cross-game bonus
| A Just Cause 2 savefile will unlock a Rico Rodriguez outfit and the ability to use Stunt Position from further away. |
DLC
| Nightmare in North Point, Zodiac Tournament, Wheels of Fury, Year of the Snake |
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Valve T-Shirt Pack |
Included with base game |
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Community Gift Pack |
Included with base game |
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Deep Undercover Pack |
Included in the Dragon Master Pack |
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Drunken Fist Pack |
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Gangland Style Pack |
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Ghost Pig |
Available for free |
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GSP Pack |
Included in the Dragon Master Pack |
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The High Roller Pack |
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High Resolution Texture Pack |
Available for free. Requires 4 GB of HD space and a Steam copy of the game. See the DLC Steam page for a download link. |
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Law Enforcer Pack |
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Martial Arts Pack |
Included in the Dragon Master Pack |
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Monkey King Pack |
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Movie Masters Pack |
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Nightmare in North Point |
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Police Protection Pack |
Included in the Dragon Master Pack |
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The Red Envelope Pack |
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Retro Triad Pack |
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Screen Legends Pack |
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Square Enix Character Pack |
No longer available following the property's acquisitions from Embracer Group |
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Street Racer Pack |
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The SWAT Pack |
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Tactical Soldier Pack |
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Top Dog Gold Pack |
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Top Dog Silver Pack |
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Triad Enforcer Pack |
Included in the Dragon Master Pack |
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Wheels of Fury |
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Year of the Snake |
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Zodiac Tournament |
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Version differences
- The Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition contains all DLC rebalanced and properly integrated into the game's story, updated graphics and various additional enhancements.[7]
- Sleeping Dogs Collection is a complete edition with all DLC.[8] The free High Resolution Texture Pack is a separate download.
- Both the German and Japanese versions are Low Violence Versions and only includes German and Japanese plus English languages respectively. The Japanese version is region locked to the country.
- The German version does not support any DLC.
Game data
In-game general settings (1/3).
In-game general settings (2/3).
In-game general settings (3/3).
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Save file information:
- Main story save files:
HK Autosave Slot
and HK GameSlot #
(# is 1 - 4)
- Nightmare in North Point DLC save files:
HK AutosaveG Slot
and HK GameSlotG #
(# is 1 - 2)
- The Year of the Snake DLC save files:
HK AutosaveN Slot
and HK GameSlotN #
(# is 1 - 2)
Video
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings (1/2).
In-game advanced video settings (2/2).
- All graphical setting changes require a restart, otherwise visual elements will appear invisible in the game.[12]
Input
In-game key map settings.
In-game gamepad layout settings for the player.
In-game gamepad layout settings for vehicles.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Up to 5.1 output[13] |
Subtitles |
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Can also be turned on only for when Cantonese is spoken. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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EAX support |
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Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Cantonese |
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Limited to some NPCs and radio stations. Choice of subtitling only Cantonese is available. |
French |
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German |
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Heavily censored version. Outdated and does not support any DLC.[14] |
Italian |
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Japanese |
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Heavily censored version locked to the Japanese region. |
Polish |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Fan translation, download. |
Russian |
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DLC was never translated due to Square Enix discontinuing Russian language support.[15] For DLC to work, you have to switch to another language, e.g. English. All DLCs were later localized for the Definitive Edition. |
Spanish |
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Issues unresolved
Naz gets stuck in prologue
During the intro sequence, you're supposed to follow Naz to escape the police. While escaping the fish market after climbing over the crates, Naz gets stuck in that area and the animation sequence where Wei does a jump takedown to a policeman fails to trigger. However, if the player choose to continue running, Naz will respawn ahead before the cutscene. Doesn't seem to happen in the initial pre-DLC release version.
- Issue fixed in the Definitive Edition.
HkShip.exe has stopped working
[16]
Run the game in compatibility mode[citation needed]
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Run the game in a lower quality[citation needed]
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Can't choose custom refresh rate
- When selecting resolution in video options, only pre-made presets are available, user can't choose to change refresh rate, which often force players to play in windowed mode.
Can't force game into fullscreen
- The game starts in windowed mode and no matter what you do it just stays in windowed mode. Alt+↵ Enter doesn't work and neither does setting the video option to fullscreen.
Close TeamViewer if installed[citation needed]
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Disable TeamViewer's QuickConnect[citation needed]
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- Go into TeamViewer's advanced settings.
- Disable the "QuickConnect" feature.
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Close (or stop) Actual Multiple Monitors, or other multi-monitor software if installed[citation needed]
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Change monitor's refresh rate to the native one[citation needed]
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Issues fixed
Constantly scrolling up
- Caused by controller drivers.
Disable Human Interface Devices[17]
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- This specific fix is only for use when playing with keyboard and mouse.
- Go into your Device Manager > Human Interface Devices
- Right click on any that say HID-compiant consumer control device, for example, USB Input Device, USB Game Controller, HID-compliant device.
- Right click and disable every device apart from your keyboard.
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FPS issues and/or stuttering
- The game may lag or stutter on high-end systems, particularly during day time with its shadows.[18]
Run the game in windowed mode[citation needed]
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- Start the game and enable windowed mode.
- See Borderless fullscreen windowed to make the game borderless.
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Black screen during cutscenes
Disable 'Cheat' DLC
- DLC can be selectively disabled from the game's properties in the Steam client.[20]
- Game features DLC that give unbalanced bonuses for player; easily misable when downloading DLC in bulk.
Instructions[citation needed]
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- The following DLC are boosts for the leveling systems and can be disabled at the player's discretion:
- Gold Top Dog (Gives you 8,250 Triad, 4,500 Cop and 4,500 extra Face Experience Points)
- Silver Top Dog (Gives you 8,250 Triad, 4,500 Cop and 4,500 extra Face Experience Points)
- Red Envelope Pack (Distributes 20 envelopes that have $50k each throughout Hong Kong)
- High Roller Pack (Gives Tuono vehicle, High Roller outfit, and an extra $200k)
Notes
- DLC automatically applied during first time launch of save file. A new game must be started in order for the DLC to not be applied.
- To grant the DLC bonus to an existing save game, simply re-enable that DLC and load the save game.
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Can't remap to arrow keys
- Can be remapped to number pad arrow keys, but not standard arrow keys.[21]
Enable arrow key movement[citation needed]
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- Install AutoHotkey.
- After installation, when prompted to create the first script, choose Yes in the dialog box.
- Delete everything from the Notepad file which opens and paste the following:
up::w
down::s
left::a
right::d
Numpad8::up
Numpad5::down
Numpad4::left
Numpad6::right
NumpadAdd::Enter
NumpadEnter::Backspace
- Right click on the AutoHotkey icon in the notification tray and choose Reload script. In the future if you want to use the arrow keys in the game just start the AutoHotkey application and you are done.
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Low performance on Nvidia cards
- The game is optimized for AMD cards, and thus Nvidia cards can post low FPS for the auto detected settings.[citation needed]
Improve frame rate[citation needed]
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Setting "Enable Quality Anti-Aliasing" and "Screen Space Ambient Occlusion" to Normal should improve FPS noticeably.
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VR support
3D modes |
State |
Notes |
vorpX |
| G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
11 |
Only supports DirectX 11; backward compatibility for DirectX 10 and 10.1 GPUs is provided by DirectX 11 |
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
Vista SP2 |
7 |
Processor (CPU) |
Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz Athlon X2 2.7 GHz |
Quad Core |
System memory (RAM) |
2 GB |
4 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
15 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
ATI Radeon HD 3870 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT DirectX 10 compatible
| ATI Radeon HD 6950 Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible |
Sound (audio device) |
DirectX compatible | |
- VRAM requirement only for High Resolution Texture Pack.
Notes
References