The Saboteur

The Saboteur

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

Key points

Large performance issues even on more modern systems.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

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

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Overwriting files Use The Saboteur intro skip

Patches

The latest version is Patch 1.03b.

This patch may slightly improve any performance issues on ATI/AMD cards.

Large Address Aware

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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Origin

Video settings

Configuration tool.

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 config file Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open config.ini. Add Windowed 1 at the end of the file.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

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

Motion blur

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

Input settings

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

Instructions[citation needed] Go to the installation folder. Edit InputTemplates.txt. 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

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

Low performance on modern systems

Disable shadows Open <path-to-game>\VideoSetup.exe. 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] Right-click on the launcher (or desktop icon). 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

Fixed in the GOG.com release.

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

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] See Windowed to set the game to windowed mode. Optionally, use Borderless Gaming to make the window borderless.

Change refresh rate[citation needed] Open <path-to-game>\VideoSetup.exe Set refresh rate to 60Hz or less.

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

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

Controller incorrectly mapped

Instructions[citation needed] Download The Saboteur - Controller Remapping Fix. 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

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

System requirements

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