UFO: Aftershock

UFO: Aftershock

Developers
	Altar Games
Publishers
	1C Company
Release dates
Windows	October 21, 2005

UFO

UFO: Aftermath	2003
UFO: Aftershock	2005
UFO: Afterlight	2007

General information

Official page

Modding forums for game series

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		EN+RU+FR+DE, patched 1.2.1
Steam		EN+RU, patched 1.2.1

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.3 (over 1.2 or 1.2.1): OfficialSite or StrategyCore

Game data

Configuration file location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Profiles\<user-id>\options.txt

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Profiles\<user-id>\Saves\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

UFO: Aftershock system settings menu.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Locked at 1024x768. See Widescreen resolution for fix.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Add " fullscreen=FALSE" in shortcut
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Options 1 to 8
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen resolution Download the widescreen fix. Go to the installation folder and create a backup of the original UFO.exe. Open archive and extract files from selected resolution into installation folder. Overwrite when asked. Notes Currently supported resolutions are 1600x900, 1680x1050 and 1920x1080. Sometimes this fix will cause game to render partially off screen. See Off screen rendering fix bellow.

Off screen rendering fix[citation needed] Delete or rename widescreenmod.vfs file and Profile folder. Backup your saves if necessary. Run original UFO.exe, create new profile and set your options. Apply widescreen fix again and run the game. Notes You can keep both original exe and fixed exe in same folder, but you have to delete or rename widescreenmod.vfs because original version will load this file as well.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Anisotropic filtering[citation needed] Replace Aftershock's default desktop shortcut with the one from its Start menu folder (probably ...\Cenega Czech\UFO Aftershock), reading "High Quality" or something to that effect. Manually force 16x AF from your graphics card settings. Notes The resulting sharper textures and (consequentially) more detailed gloss maps add up to a significant increase in the overall visual experience, compared to "vanilla" game.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Other
Touchscreen optimised

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
French				CC may not be if AS is not from Trilogy pack
German
Russian
Spanish

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1 GHz AMD Athlon 1 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz AMD Athlon 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	768 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 5700 ATI Radeon 9500	Nvidia GeForce 6600 ATI Radeon 9700 PRO