Risen

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Risen
Risen cover.jpg
Developers
Publishers
Release dates
Windows
October 2, 2009
Risen at Steam Charts
Risen at SteamDB
 Risen at Wikipedia
Risen
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General information

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

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Retail Disc check DRM: SolidShield disc check; use Patch 1.11 Final to remove.
GamersGate DRM-free
GOG.com DRM-free
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Information Patch 1.11 Final fixes various issues and removes copy protection.

Skip intro videos[edit]

Fix Delete/rename video files

  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Go into data\extern\videos
  3. Delete or rename logo_01.bik, logo_02.bik and logo_03.bik (if present).

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Risen\

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Risen\
Information Achievements are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Risen\achievements.bin

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

Video Settings settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Native WSGF WS Silver.svg
Multi-monitor Hackable WSGF MM Silver.svg See Multi-monitor.
Field of view (FOV) Impossible
Windowed Hackable See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Impossible
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Native
Anti-aliasing (AA) Impossible
Vertical sync (Vsync) Impossible
High frame rate Native No frame rate or refresh rate cap.[1]

Multi-monitor[edit]

Fix Eyefinity / Surround resolutions[2]

Risen does not detect the multi-screen resolutions automatically. This can be fixed however, using the following steps:

1. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Risen
2. Edit ConfigUser.xml
3. Find the following: 
</Cache>
<Window
AdapterNumber="0"
Bottom="678"
Left="0"
RefreshRate="60"
Right="1920"
Top="0"
>
4. Change the lines "Bottom" and "Right" to your desired resolution entries. 1920x678 is shown.

Windowed[edit]

Fix Windowed mode

Risen does not have an in-game option for windows mode. However, window mode can be enabled by editing a config file.

1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\ini
2. Edit ConfigDefault.xml
3. Find the following: 
</Cache>
<Window
AdapterNumber="0"
Bottom="768"
CaptureCursor="true"
Center="false"
FullScreen="true"
Left="0"
Name="RISEN"
RefreshRate="0"
Right="1024"
Top="0"
>
>
4. Change the fullscreen to False.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Impossible
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native Under Game settings.
Controller
Controller support Impossible

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native
Surround sound Unknown
Subtitles Native Under Game settings.
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Native

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native
French Native Native Native
German Native Native Native
Italian Native Impossible Native
Polish Native Impossible Native Only available in Polish retail release.
Spanish Native Impossible Native
Turkish Native Impossible Native A Turkish fan patch is available here.

Issues fixed[edit]

"The program cannot start because PhysXLoader.dll is missing from your computer" error at launch[edit]

Fix Install PhysX

Install the NVIDIA PhysX System Software.

"The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect" error at launch[edit]

Fix Install Visual C++ 2005 (x86)[3]

Install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86).

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz Dual Core 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
2.5 GB
Video card (GPU) GeForce 7900
ATI 1800
256 MB of VRAM
Shader model 3.0 support 		GeForce 8800
Radeon HD 2900
512 MB of VRAM
Shader model 3.0 support

References

  1. ↑ New 120Hz Games Report
  2. ↑ http://www.wsgf.org/dr/risen
  3. ↑ Getting "failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect" error when launching, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com