The Saboteur

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The Saboteur
The Saboteur cover
Developers
Pandemic Studios
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Odin
Release dates
Windows December 8, 2009

Key points

Large performance issues even on more modern systems.[1]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com DRM: SecuROM disc check.[2]
Amazon.com
GOG.com
Origin DRM: SecuROM, limited to five activations per machine.

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Overwriting files[3]

Use The Saboteur intro skip

Patches[edit]

The latest version is Patch 1.03b.
This patch may slightly improve any performance issues on ATI/AMD cards.

Large Address Aware[edit]

Allows the game to use more than 2 GB of RAM.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Saboteur™\SaveGames\

Save game data location[edit]

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Saboteur™\SaveGames\

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Origin

Video settings[edit]

Configuration tool.
Configuration tool.
Video settings.
Video settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)
See the WSGF entry.
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Can be forced through the NVIDIA Control Panel/AMD Control Center.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Nvidia users can enable SGSSAA by following this guide.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Double Buffered V-sync enabled by default. See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS.

Windowed[edit]

Edit config file[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open config.ini.
  3. Add Windowed 1 at the end of the file.

Vertical sync (Vsync)[edit]

Edit config file[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open config.ini
  3. Change VSync 1 to Vsync 0 to disable V-sync.

Motion blur[edit]

Edit config file[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open config.ini.
  3. Change PostProcessing 1 to PostProcessing 0.

Input settings[edit]

The controls menu.
The controls menu.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Both XInput and DirectInput.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Edit InputTemplates.txt in the installation folder and in the saves folder.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback

Toggles[edit]

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit InputTemplates.txt.
  3. At the end of the DEFAULT section, change the following settings to YES/NO.
    • SPRINT_TOGGLE
    • SNEAK_TOGGLE
    • AIM_TOGGLE
    • MELEE_STATE_TOGGLE
    • MELEE_GRAB_TOGGLE

Audio settings[edit]

The audio menu.
The audio menu.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, effects and voices.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English
German
Italian
French

Issues fixed[edit]

Low performance on modern systems[edit]

Disable shadows[3]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\VideoSetup.exe.
  2. Disable the game's shadows in the options menu.
Disable Vertical sync (Vsync) for more consistent frame pacing[citation needed]
Set compatibility to Windows XP[citation needed]
  1. Right-click on the launcher (or desktop icon).
  2. Set the compatibility to Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows XP (Service Pack 3).

Notes

On Windows setting the game's priority through the task manager to Real Time might help.[citation needed]
Running the game with less cores will only end up with the game running even more poorly.

Broken map overlay[edit]

Fixed in the GOG.com release.[4]
Install older drivers[citation needed]

Install older drivers versions for Windows Vista and 7 (64-bit), Windows Vista and 7 (32-bit) or Windows XP.

Notes

No need to uninstall current drivers, they can be simply overridden.
Setting the game's resolution to any values starting with 1280x should also work.[citation needed]
Limited fix only up to the GTX 400 series.

Resolution stuck at 640x480[edit]

The resolution will not be taken into account if the refresh rate is set higher than 60 Hz in the launcher; higher refresh rates can be forced through the video control panel.
You can also play in windowed mode which works with any refresh rate set in the launcher.
Windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. See Windowed to set the game to windowed mode.
  2. Optionally, use Borderless Gaming to make the window borderless.
Change refresh rate[citation needed]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\VideoSetup.exe
  2. Set refresh rate to 60Hz or less.

"The Saboteur is unable to continue due to an error initializing your graphics hardware."[edit]

Windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. See Windowed to set the game to windowed mode.
  2. Optionally, use Borderless Gaming to make the window borderless.

Controller incorrectly mapped[edit]

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Download The Saboteur - Controller Remapping Fix.
  2. Copy the file to the installation folder and overwrite.

Notes

Alternatively, go to the installation folder, open InputTemplates.txt and remove alternative pad then save.

Xbox 360 Controller camera control fix[edit]

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open InputTemplates.txt.
  3. Look for a section called OTHER GAMEPAD.
  4. Change SOLDIER_TURN_LEFT from JOYSTICK_STICK2_LEFT to INPUT_NONE.
  5. Change SOLDIER_TURN_RIGHT from JOYSTICK_STICK2_RIGHT to INPUT_NONE.
  6. Repeat this process for InputTemplates.txt in the configuration file(s) location.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP 32 XP 32
Processor (CPU) Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+
Core 2 Duo E6320 1.86GHz
Phenom 9500 Quad-Core
Core 2 Quad Q6850 3.0GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) Radeon HD 5550
GeForce 7800 GTX
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Radeon HD 3800
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
640 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

References

  1. Verified by RaTcHeT302 on August 13, 2016
  2. Reclaim Your Game - RYG's SecuROM 7+ DRM List
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Verified by Suicide Machine on August 13, 2016
    With a help of Radeon PRO on-screen display
  4. Map bug fixed?