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Revision as of 06:05, 27 September 2016

Scratches
Scratches cover
Developers
Nucleosys
Publishers
Got Game Entertainment
Meridian4
Release dates
Windows March 8, 2006
macOS (OS X) July 28, 2011
Scratches on Wikipedia

Key points

Both GOG.com and Steam versions are fully compatible with Windows Vista and later.
Retail versions are fully compatible, but require patching and configuration to get working.
Game removed from GOG.com and Steam in January 2015.[1]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums
Senscape Forum

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Has 3 Releases, The Original, Director's Cut, and some copies of Director's Cut came with an extra disc with patches to fix problems in the 1-disc version.
Windows
Game removed from GOG.com and Steam in January 2015.[1]
Steam version can be ran without Steam running, and is DRM-free.[2]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Retail versions of the game BSoD modern Windows

Attempting to run the original Scratches or Scratches: Director's Cut on Windows Vista or above will cause Windows to crash to a blue screen.

This issue is caused by how modern Windows handles an outdated call for the monitor refresh rate.
Instructions

Retail versions of Scratches crashing in-game

The original version of Scratches is prone to crashing on modern computers.

This issue was initially due to features that were added to Intel CPUs at the time, features that have since become standard in all Intel CPUs.
Instructions

Retail versions of Scratches: Director's Cut crashing during The Last Visit

The initial release of Scratches Director's Cut came with only one disc, which contained a game breaking bug that would cause the game to crash during the additional content chapter of the game.

Future releases had two discs, with the second disc containing copies of the patches below, as such this issue should not be present on those copies, so long as the patches on Disc 2 are installed.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 1.2 compatible
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 1.2 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/46460/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (46460) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References