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Strania - The Stella Machina -

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Strania - The Stella Machina -
Strania - The Stella Machina - cover
Developers
G.rev
Release dates
Windows November 24, 2015
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person, Top-down view
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Arcade, Shooter
Vehicles Robot
Art styles Anime
Themes Sci-fi

Key points

The Side: Vower DLC from the Xbox 360 version is built-in for the PC version.
Limited video settings and the game's internal resolution is locked to 720p.[1]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\strania.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/407380/pfx/[Note 2]
Deleting this file will break the game.[2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\game.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/407380/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Non-16:9 resolutions are letterboxed, and in-game the player is limited to a 4:3 playing field while the pillarboxes gauges score. Internal resolution appears to be locked to 720p. See Increase rendering resolution to render the game higher than 720p.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
See Increase rendering resolution
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Run the game at your display's native resolution and use Borderless Gaming.[2]
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See Increase rendering resolution.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Off by default. Must be enabled by editing strania.ini (see Configuration file(s) location).
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 60 FPS.[3]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Increase rendering resolution

Use dgVoodoo 2[4]
  1. Download the latest stable release of dgVoodoo from its official website or Github, then extract the contents of dgVoodoo2_*.zip to its own folder in a convenient location on your computer (e.g. Documents).
  2. Run the dgVoodooCpl.exe, then configure the following settings from the General tab:
    • Output API: Best available one or Direct3D 12 (feature level 11.0)
    • Adapter(s) to use/enable: <your video card>
    • Scaling mode: Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio
    • Miscellaneous: Uncheck Capture mouse (the game does not use mouse controls)
  3. Now go to the DirectX tab and configure the following settings:
    • Videocard: dgVoodoo 3D Accelerated Card
    • Filtering: Leave at App driven to prevent blurring the image
    • Resolution: Set to Max (uses your system's highest native resolution)
    • Behavior: Uncheck Disable Alt+ Enter to toggle screen state
    • Antialiasing (MSAA): Set to App driven or 2x-8x
    • Miscellaneous: Uncheck dgVoodoo Watermark, Force vSync, and Apply Phong shading when available
  4. Click Apply dgVoodoo 2 should save the configuration file to where you have it installed by default, then copy the dgVoodoo.conf to <path-to-game>. Alternatively, click the Add button and point the program to where you have the game installed to save it there.
  5. Go into the MS/x86 folder from your dgVoodoo 2 installation folder, then copy the D3D9.dll file to <path-to-game>.
  6. Launch the game. The game should be rendering higher than the internal 720p lock.

Input

Controller.
Controller.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Added in v1.02. No native in-game option to rebind keys, instead keys are remapped via editing strania.ini (see Configuration file(s) location).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse is not used at all.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
DirectInput and XInput are supported.
Controller remapping
For non-XInput controllers, the Confirm and Cancel buttons are tied to Button 1 and 2, respectively, which cannot be changed. Movement is also bound to D-pad and left analog stick and cannot be changed.[2]
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Recognized as a generic DirectInput controller by the game.[2]
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth)
V2 tested.[2]
Generic/other controllers
Button prompts
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
XInput only.[5]
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
BGM, SE.
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7900GS
ATI Radeon X1600Pro
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  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>/407380/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (407380) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Game resolution is locked (720p) - Steam Community Discussions - last accessed on 2021-07-01
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2021-07-01
  3. Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2021-07-01
    Tested with Steam's FPS counter with Vsync disabled.
  4. Game resolution is locked (720p) - Steam Community Discussions, post #52 - last accessed on 2021-07-01
  5. Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2021-07-01
    DualShock 4 controllers without third-party XInput wrappers did not vibrate during gameplay.