Sleeping Dogs

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Sleeping Dogs

Developer(s)	United Front Games Square Enix London Studios
Publisher(s)	Square Enix
First release date	August 14, 2012

General information

Official Sleepings Dogs Forum - PC General Discussion - this forum is the most active for PC technical issues.

Official Sleepings Dogs Forum - PC Bugs/Glitches.

Steam Forum.

Availability

Source(s)	Store unlock	Notes
Digital Distribution		All versions unlock on Steam.
Steam

All versions require Steam, including retail; digital versions do not contain serial keys, instead registering directly onto the Steam ID.

Improvements

Sleeping Dogs Mods - website from the creating of Just Cause 2 Mods website.

Game data

	Location
Save game location	..\SleepingDogs\Data
Configuration files location

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

Graphics option	Native	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Can be forced using Nvidia Inspector
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA and SSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)

High Resolution Texture Pack

A PC-specific high resolution texture pack is available for free which requires an additional 4GB space.

Graphics Change

All graphics changing requires a restart, otherwise visual elements will be missing from the game.

Multiple Graphics Cards

Appears that SLI and Crossfire are not enabled.

Nvidia Card Performance

The game is optimized for AMD cards, and thus Nvidia cards can post low FPS for the auto detected settings. Setting "Enable Quality Anti-Aliasing" and "Screen Space Ambient Occlusion" to Normal should noticeably improve FPS.

Input settings

Input Settings	Native	Notes
Remapping		Under Controller Layout.
Mouse acceleration		No option. Mouse acceleration not present. Some mouse smoothing - turning on Raw Input should reduce it.
Controller support		Xbox 360 Controller - use Xinput emulator for others.

Can't Remap To Arrow Keys

Can be remapped to number pad arrow keys, but not standard arrow keys.

But you can remap your Up, Down, Left and Right arrow keys to work like W,S,A,D and vice versa using the application Autohotkey at http://www.autohotkey.com. After installation, when prompted to create the first script, choose Yes in the dialog box. Then, delete everything from the Notepad file which opens and paste the following: http://pastebin.com/8d5dKTRV. After that, right click on the Autohotkey icon in the notification tray and choose Reload script and you will be able to use the arrow keys to move the player and cars. As a last step, add the Autohotkey application to startup and you are done!

Issues fixed

Constantly Scrolling Up

Caused by controller drivers.

Disable Human Interface Devices • Link This specific fix is only for use when playing using keyboard and mouse. 1) Go into your Device Manager > Human Interface Devices 2) Right click on any that say HID-compiant consumer control device, for example, USB Input Device, USB Game Controller, HID-compliant device. 3) Right click and disable every device apart from your keyboard.

FPS Issues and/or Stuttering

The game may lag or stutter on high-end systems, particularly during day time.

Run the Game in Borderless Windowed Mode • Link 1) Start the game, change it to windowed mode. 2) Download Windowed Borderless Gaming created by the user Hellstrong. 3) Follow the instructions in his post to get rid of the window border and then adjust the x and y axes to make it fit your screen. 4) Your game now looks like full screen and may have an improved frame rate. At 1920x1080 use the values X=2 ; Y =1.

Black Screen During Cutscene

Reinstall Game • Link A potential fix is to reinstall the game.

Disable 'Cheat' DLC

For those who bought all the DLC but didn't realize that some of it gave unbalanced bonuses to the player.

Open the following directory: Steam\steamapps\common\SleepingDogs\ To disable one of the following DLCs simply rename its extension from .dat to something else. The following files represent DLC may be considered 'cheats' and can be disabled at the player's discretion by renaming them: 1E6323E1.dat - Gold Top Dog (Gives you 8,250 Triad, 4,500 Cop and 4,500 extra Face Experience Points) 576E446C.dat - Silver Top Dog (Gives you 8,250 Triad, 4,500 Cop and 4,500 extra Face Experience Points) E58008F5.dat - Red Envelope Pack (Distributes 20 envelopes that have $50k each throughout Hong Kong) AC8D6F78.dat - High Roller Pack (Gives Tuono vehicle, High Roller outfit, and an extra $200k) Note that a new game must be started in order for the DLC to not be applied. It may be necessary to disable automatic Steam updates for this game to prevent the DLC from re-downloading. To grant the DLC bonus to any save game simply restore the name of the file and load the save game.

Issues unresolved

'HkShip.exe has stopped working'

Unresolved issue.

EVGA GTX 570 fix. Underclock your GPU to 747MHz using the EVGA precision tool. Game no longer crashes

'Can't choose custom refreshing rate'

When selecting resolution in video options, only pre-made presets are available, user can't choose to change refreshing rate, which often force players to play in windowed mode.

'Can't force game into fullscreen'

The game starts in windowed mode and no matter what you do it just stays in windowed mode. Alt+Enter doesn't work and neither does setting the video option to fullscreen.

POTENTIAL FIX: Close team viewer if installed.

POTENTIAL FIX: Close (or stop) Actual Multiple Monitors if installed.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows Vista SP2	Windows 7
Processor (CPU)	Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz	Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher	DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950
Hard disk drive (HDD)	15 GB free	15 GB free

Windows XP cannot run this game.