The Showdown Effect

The Showdown Effect

Developers   Arrowhead Game Studios

Publishers   Paradox Interactive

Engines   Bitsquid

Release dates Windows March 5, 2013 OS X March 5, 2013

Key points

The game features the ability to stream directly to Twitch.

Due to severe lag compensation in multi-player games and reliance on P2P hosting instead of using dedicated servers, players with higher ping are likely to warp around the map and simultaneous kills may happen.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Official forum

Official website

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Amazon.com
GamersGate
Humble Store
Publisher website
Steam

All versions require Steam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Arrowhead\TheShowdownEffect\user_settings.conf
OS X	~/Library/Application Support/Arrowhead/TheShowdownEffect/user_settings.config

Save game data location

	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Arrowhead\TheShowdownEffect\
OS X	~/Library/Application Support/Arrowhead/TheShowdownEffect/
Steam	<Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/204080/remote/saves/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Windowed		The window is fully resizable.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
High frame rate

Additional settings

Further configuration options can be found in the config file.

SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion) To enable this, find the option ssao_enabled in the config file and set it to true.

Input settings

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Controller
Controller support		Developer has mentioned intention to implement controller support.

Audio settings

Audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects, voices, music and ambiance.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
German

Issues unresolved

Freezing on OS X

Freezes randomly on OS X. The issue still hasn't been addressed in recent updates.

Issues fixed

Game crashes on start-up

Game crashes on start-up The game happens to crash on some setups. A possible fix is removing all game files via Steam and reinstalling the game again.

Game crashes on start-up on a multi-monitor set-up Make sure that the screen the game is supposed to appear on is enabled, otherwise the game will crash. Alternatively, change the setting in the config found here.

Black screen on launch

Black screen on launch In some cases, the game may launch to a black screen with all the sounds still playing. This can often be fixed by switching to windowed mode. To do this, open the config file and set the option fullscreen to false.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	2.4 GHz Dual Core	2.4 GHz Quad Core
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	nVidia GeForce 9800 ATi Radeon HD 2600 XT 512 MB of VRAM	nVidia 460 AMD Radeon 5870 1 GB of VRAM

OS X
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.7
Processor (CPU)	2.4 GHz Dual Core	2.4 GHz Quad Core
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	nVidia GeForce 9800 ATi Radeon HD 2600 XT 512 MB of VRAM	nVidia 460 AMD Radeon 5870 1 GB of VRAM