Alien Shooter

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Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter cover.png
Developers
Release dates
Windows
June 12, 2003
Alien Shooter at Steam Charts
Alien Shooter at SteamDB
 Alien Shooter at Wikipedia
Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter 2003
Alien Shooter: Fight For Life
Alien Shooter: The Experiment
Alien Shooter: Vengeance 2006
Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded 2009
Alien Shooter: Revisited 2009
Alien Shooter 2: Conscription 2010

Key points

Disadvantage Very limited graphical options.
Disadvantage Keys can only be rebound by editing a config file.

General information

More information GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
More information GOG.com Support Page
More information Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Retail DRM details are not known
Desura DRM-free
GOG.com DRM-free
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Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <path-to-game>\AlienShooter.cfg

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SigmaTeam\AlienShooter\<user-id>

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible

Video settings[edit]

Game's launcher.
Graphics option Option Notes
Widescreen resolution Impossible Limited to 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768.
Multi-monitor Impossible
Ultra-widescreen Impossible
4K Ultra HD Impossible
Field of view (FOV) Not applicable
Windowed Hackable See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Impossible
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Not applicable
Anti-aliasing (AA) Not applicable
Vertical sync (Vsync) Hackable Enabled by default. See Vertical sync (Vsync).
High frame rate Unknown

Windowed[edit]

Fix Edit registry to set window mode.

Information Playing in a window mode may be problematic, as the mouse cursor is not grabbed by the game's window.
  1. Open regedit.exe.
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ETeam\SW.
  3. Find an entry FullScreen and change its value to 0.

Vertical sync (Vsync)[edit]

Fix Disable Vsync by editing AlienShooter.cfg

  1. Open the file Alien Shooter\AlienShooter.cfg.
  2. Find the line VSync=1 and change it to VSync=0.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Hackable See Remapping.
Mouse acceleration Impossible
Mouse input in menus Unknown
Mouse Y-axis inversion Unknown
Controller
Controller support Impossible

Remapping[edit]

Fix Change controls by editing AlienShooter.cfg

  1. Open Alien Shooter\AlienShooter.cfg using Notepad.
  2. Below [control] you'll find actions bound to specific keys.
  3. Change keys to your liking leaving action names unchanged.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Unknown
Surround sound Unknown
Subtitles Unknown
Closed captions Unknown
Mute on focus lost Unknown

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM