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==Essential improvements==
 
==Essential improvements==

Revision as of 04:44, 26 May 2018

Cryostasis
Cryostasis cover
Developers
Action Forms
Publishers
Steam 1C Company
North America Aspyr Media
Europe 505 Games
Japan Zoo Corporation
Engines
AtmosFear 4
Release dates
Windows February 27, 2009
Cryostasis guide on StrategyWiki
Cryostasis on Wikipedia

Key points

Supports Hardware PhysX and allows for additional PhysX effects on Nvidia cards.
Badly optimized and has numerous problems with performance, even on systems with specs way above recommended ones.[1]
Poor implementation of Shader Model 4.0. It's recommended to use Shader Model 2.0 or 3.0 instead.[2]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
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)
SecuROM 7 DRM disc check [3] or StarForce 5 DRM.
Windows
Some retail versions can be played without needing the CD, once the initial DRM initialization is completed.[citation needed]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Edit init.cfg[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Scripts\
  2. Open init.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Change r.showlogos 1 to r.showlogos 0
  4. Save the changes.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7850/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\Save\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7850/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Field of view (FOV)

Edit config files[4]
  1. Open these files with a text editor:
  2. Find the first instance of r.fov 80 and change 80 to the desired FOV in all three files.
  3. Save the changes.

Notes

Changing FOV can be tested in the console by modifying the r.fov cvar.
The distance of the player camera can also be changed.

Windowed

Edit init.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Scripts\
  2. Open init.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Change r.windowed 0 to r.windowed 1
  4. Save the changes.

Notes

Only works if using Shader Model 2.0 or 3.0 in-game.
The window is locked to the top-left corner of the screen.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian

Issues fixed

Noclip bug

A common problem that is encountered after saving in certain places and then reloading from that save point is the player will suddenly start clipping through walls and be unable to progress normally.
Use console commands[citation needed]
  1. Open the console with ~.
  2. Type in d.noclip=0 and press Enter.
  3. Type in d.fly=1 and press Enter.

"The program cannot start because PhysXLoader.dll is missing from your computer" error at launch

It provides no error message if launched from Steam. This error only appears on direct launch.
Install PhysX[5]
  1. Install the NVIDIA PhysX System Software.
  2. If the problem persists set the Windows XP (Service Pack 3) Windows Compatibility Mode for cryostasis.exe.

"Cryostasis Termination" error on startup

On startup, the game crashes directly to an error message stating "Effect::Load() failed. screen_00.fxo File not found".
Change Shader version in config file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open config.cfg in a text editor such as Notepad++.
  3. Change @r.shadermodel = 3 to @r.shadermodel = 4.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Shader Model support 2, 3, 4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Enable the console

Edit init.cfg[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Scripts\
  2. Open init.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Change d.consoleh = 0 to d.consoleh = 1
  4. Save the changes.

Notes

Console is opened with ~ in-game.

Change camera distance

Edit autoexec.cfg[4]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open autoexec.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Add c.camdist # where # represents the distance of the player camera (default is 0).
  4. Save the changes.

Notes

Changing camera distance can be tested in the console by modifying the c.camdist cvar.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel Dual Core 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 4000+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP) / 2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7600
AMD Radeon X1900

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/7850/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (7850) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References