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Sonic Generations

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Sonic Generations
Sonic Generations cover
Developers
Sonic Team
Publishers
Sega
Engines
Hedgehog Engine
Release dates
Windows November 1, 2011
Sonic Generations on Wikipedia
Sonic the Hedgehog fangames (series)
Sonic CD 1995
Sonic's Schoolhouse 1996
Sonic 3D Blast (series)
Sonic & Knuckles Collection 1997
Sonic R (series)
Sonic Adventure (series)
Sonic Heroes 2004
Sonic Mega Collection Plus 2006
Sonic Riders 2006
Sonic Racing (series)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2010
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine 2010
Sonic Spinball 2010
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 2011
Sonic 3 & Knuckles 2011
Sonic Generations 2011
Sonic CD (2012) 2012
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I 2012
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II 2012
Sonic Dash 2014
Sonic Lost World 2015
Sonic Mania 2017
Sonic Forces 2017
Sonic the Hedgehog (Mobile Decompilation) 2021
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mobile Decompilation) 2021
Sonic Colors: Ultimate 2021
Sonic Origins 2022
Sonic Frontiers 2022
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog 2023
Sonic Superstars 2023
Sonic Dream Team 2023
Sonic X Shadow Generations 2024

Key points:

It is highly recommended to play the game with a Xbox 360 Controller
Active modding community
The Unleashed Project Mod comes with a graphics renderer (ported from the 360/PS3 versions of Sonic Unleashed) that provides graphical and stability improvements to the base game.

General information

Official developer site
Sonic News Network - A massive wiki for the Sonic the Hedgehog universe
Sonic Retro - A huge fan site for everything Sonic the Hedgehog. Mods for all the games can be found here
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

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All versions require Steam.

Essential improvements

Unleashed Project Mod

The Unleashed Project Mod provides a graphics renderer ported from Sonic Unleashed that adds stability and graphical enhancements.

High Resolution Shadows

There's a way to go beyond the shadow resolution options offered by the game, and it involves some manual modifications to the executable. Step-by-step instructions can be found here.

Game data

In-game options menu.

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/71340/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/71340/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

External video settings.

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Input settings

External control settings.

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Audio settings

External audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish

Issues fixed

Issues with Nvidia Optimus laptops

Method 1

Instructions

Method 2

Use Method 2 only if Method 1 does not work
This fix is know to work on GeForce GT 555M, GeForce GT 540M, and GeForce GT 525M chipsets
Instructions

This second method was suggested by ezodagrom, and is reproduced here from a post by BlackLionPT.

Configuration Tool does not open/crashes

  1. Download and Install Microsoft Net Framework 4.0 from here.
  2. NOTE: If the above doesn't, please run Windows Update and install ALL Updates available. This way you can make sure it's not a "flaw" in your system that's causing the problem.

Black screen but can hear sound

Go to Catalyst Control Center / Nvidia Control Panel and disable all custom Anti Aliasing profiles (reset it to default if needed).

Crash on startup

Instructions
Instructions

Critical Error

Complete error states The detected configuration does not match your current hardware. Please run the configuration tool.
Instructions

Crash when trying to play online ranking mode

  • If you have more than 100 friends on Steam, even if you are offline in chat, online mode will cause to crash the game. Remove friends to have 99 or less, and the game won't crash anymore.
  • Loading a level in the singleplayer, exiting it and then starting it in ranked mode may reduce the chances of a crash.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4200 (2x2.0GHz) or AMD equivalent
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 11 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800
ATI Radeon HD 2900
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 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>/71340/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (71340) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References