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Velvet Assassin

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Velvet Assassin
Velvet Assassin cover
Developers
Replay Studios
Publishers
2009-2015 SouthPeak Games
2015-present Missing Link Games
Mac App Store Digital Tribe
Engines
Replay Engine
Release dates
Windows April 28, 2009
macOS (OS X) December 26, 2012
Reception
Metacritic 61
IGDB 54
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Shooter
Themes World War II
Velvet Assassin on HowLongToBeat
Velvet Assassin on IGDB
Velvet Assassin guide on StrategyWiki
Velvet Assassin on MobyGames
Velvet Assassin on Wikipedia

Key points

For Windows 8 and later apply the fullscreen border fix.
The Windows version requires the NVIDIA PhysX Legacy System Software (prevents a Critical Error - Aegia Physics SDK crash).
Users have reported stability issues. See Issues fixed section for possible fixes.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Requires online activation
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Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Russian copies use StarForce 5 DRM.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Videos\logos.
  2. Delete or rename PhysX.bik, replay_logo.bik, and southpeak.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Velvet Assassin\
<path-to-game>\aio\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/16720/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Velvet Assassin\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/16720/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Game launcher options.
Game launcher options.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Resolution set via launcher.
Multi-monitor
Resolution set via launcher.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
2x, 4x and maximum.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enabled by default. See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
Game works accurately at 60 FPS and below.
120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 130 FPS and will cause audio and animation glitches. See Issues fixed for possible fixes.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Field of view (FOV)

Custom FOV[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\aio\.
  2. Open player_exdata.cfg.
  3. Find the following lines and change them to your liking:
Cam1stPersonFOV = 110			//< FOV in aim mode
Cam3rdPersonFOV = 105			//< FOV in 3rd person mode

Windowed

Force windowed[citation needed]
  1. Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide. Manual local installation may work better.
  2. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
  3. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\replay.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method used.
  4. Change ForceWindowed=false to ForceWindowed=true under [Display.Output] for windowed.
  5. Change Borderless=false to Borderless=true and Fullscreen=false to Fullscreen=true under [Window.System] for borderless fullscreen windowed.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Disable Vsync[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open config.ini.
  3. Change presentinterval = 1 to presentinterval = 0.

Notes

Changing options in the launcher resets the value.

Motion blur

Disable motion blur[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\FX\PostFX\
  2. Delete or rename directional_blur.pfx.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, effects and music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
See Mute on focus lost.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Spanish
Turkish
Fan translation. Letters Üü and Öö are display incorrectly. There is ¤ sign instead of diaeresis.

Mute on focus lost

Set mute in background[citation needed]
  1. Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide. Manual local installation may work better.
  2. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
  3. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\replay.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method used.
  4. Change MuteInBackground=false to MuteInBackground=true under [Window.System].

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
Use Helix Mod: Velvet Assassin.
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

Erratic gameplay over 60 FPS

Cap frame rate at 60 FPS[citation needed]
Use a tool such as Nvidia Profile Inspector.
Toggle Vsync (see Video settings)

Enabling Steam overlay

Replace launcher with games exe[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Rename Launcher.exe to something else.
  3. Rename Replay.exe to Launcher.exe

Notes

This makes game start directly without launcher. If you need to change settings either navigate back to <path-to-game> and launch renamed exe or modify configuration file manually.

Critical Error - Aegia Physics SDK

Install the Nvidia PhysX Legacy System Software[2]

Install the Nvidia PhysX Legacy System Software.

Crashes

CPU Affinity[citation needed]
While the game is launched, open task manager, find replay.exe, and adjust the CPU affinity to the first CPU. These crashes may still occurr but will be slightly less frequent.

Window border visible in fullscreen mode

A window border is visible in fullscreen mode on Windows 8 and later.
Apply the Velvet Assassin fullscreen border fix

Black shader bug (OS X)

The player character may be solid black on systems with AMD graphics.
Use shader patch[3]

Use Shader Patch for Velvet Assassin.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 100 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.
Set screen refresh rate and 60 FPS cap[citation needed]
  1. Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide. Manual local installation may work better.
  2. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
  3. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\replay.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method used.
  4. Change TargetFPS=0.0 to TargetFPS=60.0 to enable 60 FPS cap.
  5. Change RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 to set screen refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX Windows version requires the Nvidia PhysX Legacy System Software.

Mods

No Hints mod

No Hints, Before and After.
No Hints, Before and After.

No Hints mod removes all highlights on characters, loot, all UI messages and subtitles, decreases the grain filters on assassination animations. It also changes Violette's costume to the pilot suit during Morphine mode.

Velvet Assassin: Enhanced Edition

Velvet Assassin: Enhanced Edition offers a large variety of user-created tweaks. Some of these range from:

  • increasing the difficulty,
  • adding new textures,
  • tweaking overall weapon damage as well as recoil/accuracy,
  • disabling startup movies,
  • removing motion blur, etc.

Velvet Assassin Fix

Velvet Assassin Fix by Maluc includes PhysX loader fix, windowed mode, and developer mode.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 3.0 GHz Single Core
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
ATI Radeon X1600
256 MB of VRAM
Shader model 3 support
Sound (audio device) Stereo
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.5
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8600
ATI Radeon HD 2600
256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/16720/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (16720) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References