Pathologic

This page is for the original release. For the updated version, see Pathologic Classic HD.

Key points

Support for any resolution besides 4:3 displays must be enabled via the Pathologic Widescreen Support Addon.

Poor English translation.^{[citation needed]}

General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Original Russian release uses StarForce 3 DRM^{[Note 1]} and has name Мор. Утопия
GOG.com		Bundled with Pathologic Classic HD.
GamersGate (unavailable)

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\data^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		80° by default. See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16 samples.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Unknown type, up to 8 samples.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Pathologic only supports 4:3 resolutions of 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024.

Use Pathologic Widescreen Support Addon^{[citation needed]}
Only supports 1280x800, 1360х768, 1366х768, 1440х900, 1600х900, 1680х1050, 1920х1080, and 1920х1200 resolutions.

Change FOV via console^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\data\` Open `config.ini`. Add `EnableConsole = 1` under `[General]` header. Start new game, open console with `~`, then type `fov #` to change FOV.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		No native mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Considered to be of poor quality, though most certainly playable.
German
Italian				Retail only.
Polish				Fan translation, download.
Russian				Original language of the game.
Spanish

Low frame rate^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\data\` Open `config.ini`. Change `FrameSync=` from `0` to `1`.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL
Cutscenes	Windows Media Video

↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).