The Stalin Subway: Red Veil
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Developers | |
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Orion Games | |
Publishers | |
Buka Entertainment | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 5, 2006 |
Taxonomy | |
Themes | Cold War |
Series | Stalin Subway |
Stalin Subway | |
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The Stalin Subway | 2005 |
The Stalin Subway: Red Veil | 2006 |
Warnings
Key points
- Released as Метро-2: Смерть вождя (in English "Metro-2: Death of the Leader"... literally "Metro-2: Smert' Vozhdja") in Russia.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | No disc check on German version, simple disc check on English version. Original Russian release version uses StarForce 4 DRM[Note 1], but in compilation "Коллекция развлечений №22" the videogame was fully unprotected (DRM-free) |
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Steam |
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVES\config.cfg[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/311120/pfx/[Note 3] |
- There is a configuration tool
config.exe
available in the installation folder.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVES\[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/311120/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Use resolution patch. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Can be changed using FOV X console command. |
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Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | May require DirectSound3D restoration software to restore proper sound functionality on Windows Vista and later. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Italian | ||||
Russian |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | Versus |
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Online play | Versus GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Issues fixed
Various issues fixed
Install 1.2 fix[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 8.1, 9.0c | |
Shader Model support | 1.1, 1.4, 2.0, 3.0 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | 2.0 GHz | Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz AMD Athlon XP 3.2 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 2 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
Notes
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (311120) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.