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Sanitarium

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Sanitarium
Sanitarium cover
Developers
DreamForge Intertainment
Publishers
XS Games
ASC Games
Retail (Russia) Noviy Disk[1]
Steam DotEmu
Engines
Asylum[2][3]
Release dates
Windows April 30, 1998
Windows (ScummVM) September 29, 2022[4]
Linux (ScummVM) September 29, 2022[4]
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) January 20, 2023[5]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Realistic
Themes Horror
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Sanitarium on Wikipedia

Sanitarium is a singleplayer isometric adventure game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Prepackaged with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows

Version differences

GOG version

DotEmu/Steam version

  • Game version: Version v1.00 NDEMO / Build 849
  • Has Fullscreen on/off switch.
  • Fullscreen is pillarboxed 4:3, always uses desktop resolution.
  • OpenGL API.
  • Settings are stored in UserDefault.xml file, saves either in Steam Cloud folder or in %APPDATA%.

Demo

Demos are available from ScummVM.

Essential improvements

Peixoto's patch

Not compatible with GOG.com version. However, ScummVM seems to address all of the listed issues.[6]
Fixes multiple issues:
  • Allows nearest-neighbor or xBRz scaling.
  • Deinterlaced FMVs.
  • Fixes jerky mouse movement in the menu.
  • Fixes crashes on multicore processors.
  • Fixes flicker on the mouse cursor when moved.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\DreamForge\Sanitarium\[Note 1]
GOG.com <path-to-game>\sanitarium.ini
Steam %APPDATA%\DotEmu\Sanitarium\
%PROGRAMDATA%\DotEmu\Sanitarium\
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVES\[Note 3]
Steam %APPDATA%\DotEmu\Sanitarium\SAVES\<Localized EN>\
<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\284050\remote\<Localized EN>\
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Video settings
Video settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Native resolution is 640x480.[2]
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Press Alt+ Enter with ScummVM, or see Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is limited to 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Use the -w or -window command line argument[7]
If the game becomes too slow after activating windowed mode, add the -e command line argument to activate DirectDraw's emulation mode.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Limited native support. Use ScummVM for full remapping.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, music, ambient, SFX, voice and cinematic.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Fan translation. link #1 or link #2
French
German
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation. Download and guide — ScummBR or Steam Community.
Russian
Retail Russian version only. Official localization by "Новый диск/Логрус" (ND/Logrus)
Russian
Unofficial translation by «Fargus Multimedia»
Spanish
Fan translation, download.

Issues fixed

Game crashes

Use CPUGrab[citation needed]
  1. Run CPUGrab.
  2. Run the game.
Set the OS to use only 1 CPU[citation needed]
  1. Press Win+R, then type msconfig. Click on boot tab, then on advanced options.
  2. Checkmark number of processors and put it to 1. Press ok. Restart computer. Play Game.
  3. You will have to run msconfig and uncheck number of processors and restart to change back to using all CPUs.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 5.0
OpenGL
Steam version only.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL Steam version only.
Input SDL Steam version only.
Cutscenes Smacker Video

Using classic saves with ScummVM

Rename save files[6]
  1. Go to the save game data location.
  2. Rename (or copy) all SAVE*.SAV files to asylum.0*:
    • SAVE00.SAVasylum.000
    • SAVE01.SAVasylum.001
    • etc.
  3. Ensure ScummVM is configured to use the save game data location as its save directory. (The GOG version is preconfigured this way.)
  4. Start the game normally via ScummVM.
If GOG Galaxy undesirably restores the classic filenames from the cloud, see this guide to remove them from the cloud.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA
DirectX 5.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) 16-bit Sound Card
Other 4X CD-ROM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.11
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 18.04
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB


Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/284050/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (284050) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  3. 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).

References

  1. Шизариум - last accessed on 2023-02-20
  2. 2.0 2.1 Sanitarium - ScummVM :: Wiki
  3. scummvm/configure.engine at asylum · alexbevi/scummvm - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  4. 4.0 4.1 GOG Database - Sanitarium - Release Notes - last accessed on 2022-10-25
  5. GOG Database - Sanitarium - Changelog - last accessed on 2023-02-03
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-10-25
  7. Windowed Mode, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023