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===Game crashes===
 
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Revision as of 09:12, 19 November 2017

Sanitarium
Sanitarium cover
Developers
DreamForge Intertainment
Publishers
XS Games
ASC Games
Release dates
Windows April 30, 1998
Sanitarium on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Create a shortcut[1]
  1. Create a shortcut for <path-to-game>\sntrm.exe
  2. Add the following command line to the target: -window or -w
  3. Launch the game from the shortcut.

Notes

If the game becomes too slow after activating windowed mode add the following command line to the target: -e, which activates DirectDraw's emulation mode.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Russian
Retail russian version only.

Issues fixed

Game crashes

Use CPUGrab[citation needed]
  1. Run CPUGrab.
  2. Run the game.
Set the OS to use only 1 CPU[citation needed]
  1. Press Windows Key+R, then type msconfig. Click on boot tab, then on advanced options.
  2. Checkmark number of processors and put it to 1. Press ok. Restart computer. Play Game.
  3. You will have to run msconfig and uncheck number of processors and restart to change back to using all CPUs.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 5.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5.0 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References