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Half-Life: Blue Shift

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Half-Life: Blue Shift
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Developers
Valve Corporation
Gearbox Software
Engines
GoldSrc
Release dates
Windows June 12, 2001
macOS (OS X) March 30, 2013
Linux March 30, 2013
Half-Life: Blue Shift on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
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Key points

Runs extremely well on low end hardware.

General information

Unofficial Half-Life Wiki
GitHub Issue Tracker for Half-Life: Blue Shift and other GoldSrc-based games
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Only available as Half-Life: Anthology, Comes with Steam Key
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Steam
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Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/130/pfx/[Note 1]
*.cfg store the configuration.
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/130/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.

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Borderless fullscreen windowed

Instructions

Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse/joystick settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Issues fixed

Game crashes before entering main menu (Windows)

Instructions

Other information

Console commands

Games running on the GoldSrc engine can utilize GoldSrc Engine Console Commands for various tasks.
The console is enabled by default in GoldSrc games, press ~ to open it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 96 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.3
Processor (CPU) 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 8
ATI X1600
Intel HD 3000
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04
Processor (CPU) Dual-core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 8600/9600GT
ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600
(Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11)
OpenGL 2.1 compatible


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