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Painkiller: Resurrection

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Painkiller: Resurrection
Painkiller: Resurrection cover
Developers
Homegrown Games
Publishers
Retail DreamCatcher Interactive
Digital until 2020 THQ Nordic
Digital as of 2020 Deep Silver
Engines
Pain Engine
Release dates
Windows October 27, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 38
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Horror
Series Painkiller
Painkiller: Resurrection on HowLongToBeat
Painkiller: Resurrection on IGDB
Painkiller: Resurrection on MobyGames
Painkiller: Resurrection on Wikipedia
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Painkiller: Resurrection is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Painkiller series.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
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SecuROM 7 DRM, Steam or None.
Depends on region and copy.
Windows
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Demo also available.
Windows
The German version is censored.[1]

Demo

A free demo can be installed with Steam using this link (allow Steam popup): steam://install/39590.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\movies\.
  2. Delete or rename jowood_logo.bik and DC_logo.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Painkiller Resurrection\Resurrection.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39560/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Painkiller Resurrection\Saves
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39560/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Draw Distance[citation needed]
  1. Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\Resurrection.ini.
  2. Change to a higher value Cfg.ClipPlane =.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 3.0,[2] EAX 4.0.[3]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
German version is censored[1]
Italian
Polish
Retail only
Russian
Retail only. Patch for digital release, download.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7800
ATI Radeon HD 3800
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  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>/39560/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (39560) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References