The Technomancer

Mars: War Logs
Mars: War Logs	2013
The Technomancer	2016

Key points

Requires disabling of cores on systems with more than 4 cores, see Infinite loading screen upon the game start up

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Publisher website

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Replace intro files^{[citation needed]}
Download empty intro files and extract them. Go to `<path-to-game>\boot\data\video` and replace both mp4 with the newly downloaded ones.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Technomancer\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/338390/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Config files include default.profile and graphicconfig.txt.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Technomancer\`*`.fsav
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/338390/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

No apparent limit on number of save files. Previous Silk Engine games had a 50 file limit.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud		Save files only.

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Supports dynamic resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Up to x16.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	FXAA and TAA. A separate SSAA option is available for the UI.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes	, Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth) V2 requires DS4Windows to emulate DS4 V1

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Keybinding options (1/4).
Keybinding options (2/4).
Keybinding options (3/4).
Keybinding options (4/4).
Gamepad bindings.

Audio

Audio options.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: The Technomancer.

Issues fixed

Infinite loading screen upon the game start without having to full system cap CPU thread count

On a system with more than 8 processing CPU threads system to run game 1-time configuration and no full system cap^[1]

From the above guide and comments, I was able to fix the game crash after some trial-and-error. I have a new hybrid-core 12th gen cpu so I also set the "ProcessorCountLieForHybridCPU" to 16.

For the tool: Search the web for adk-install (direct links might give old versions), look for "Download and install the Windows ADK", select the correct version for your operating system (Windows 10/11), ignore the PE download. Run the program and ONLY install the application compatibility toolkit.

To apply the fix:

Open the new app "Compatibility Administrator (32-bit)"
Right-click the current database under "Custom Databases" and rename it to something like "Game compatibility fixes"
With that database highlighted, click "Fix"
Fill in the fields of name and vendor (not important if incorrect), and then browse for the game
Click Next twice (ignore the first Compatibility Modes screen)
Scroll down and click the checkbox next to ProcessorCountLie
Click Parameters while ProcessorCountLie is highlighted
enter 8 into the "Command Line" field and click OK

- Repeat the above 2 steps for ProcessorCountLieForHybridCPU if you have different types of processor cores (like Intel's E and P cores on 12th gen processors)

Click Next
Click Finish (optionally click "Auto-Generate" first.. it adds uplay_r1_loader.dll to it.. not sure if that makes a difference)

(*If any mistakes were made, simply go back to the entry under Applications for The Technomancer, right-click Technomancer.exe and "Edit application fix") - SAVE the database - either using the Max Payne guide's suggestions, or just save it as whatever and name it whatever you like. - Right-click the database you renamed earlier, and click INSTALL

Now the game should run.

As noted in the guide, the compatibility layer will be in the registry at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Custom

NOTE: An expanded explanation for dumbs for this operation can be found here^[2].

Infinite loading screen upon the game start up (OLD)

On a system with more than 4 cores enabled user needs to disable the extra cores^[3]

Open start menu>
Type 'msconfig' and start the System Configuration tool that shows in the search
Click on the 'Boot' tab
Click on the 'Advanced Options' button on the middle left of the window, a new window should popup
Tick the 'Number of processors:' option at the top left of the window
From the dropdown list choose 4 as the maximum enabled cores
Press 'OK' and then 'Apply'
You will be presented with a possibility of rebooting the system. Reboot the system.
After reboot verify you have only 4 cores enabled

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
Shader Model support	5.0	SM 5.0 Support is not required.^{[citation needed]}

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7, 8, 10 64-bit
Processor (CPU)	AMD FX-4100 X4 3.6 GHz Intel Core i5-2500 3.3 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	11 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon HD 6950 Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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>/338390/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (338390) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Game Crashing on startup - last accessed on 2022-08-15
↑ How to run The Technomancer/Child of Light with higher than supported multicore CPUs - last accessed on 2023-03-25
↑ Stuck in loading - last accessed on 2020-03-01

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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>/338390/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (338390) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[2] Game Crashing on startup - last accessed on 2022-08-15

[3] How to run The Technomancer/Child of Light with higher than supported multicore CPUs - last accessed on 2023-03-25

[4] Stuck in loading - last accessed on 2020-03-01

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Developers

	Spiders
Publishers
	Focus Home Interactive
Engines
	Silk
Release dates
Windows	June 28, 2016
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	RPG, ARPG, Hack and slash
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Mars: War Logs