The Sting!
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Developers | |
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Neo Software Produktions | |
Publishers | |
JoWood Productions | |
Release dates | |
Windows | July 1, 2001 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 73 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Continuous turn-based |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, First-person |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Puzzle, Simulation |
Art styles | Cartoon |
Series | The Clue! |
The Clue! | |
---|---|
The Clue! | 1994 |
The Sting! | 2001 |
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | SecuROM DRM | |||
GamersGate |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\neoSoftware\TheSting!\Settings\ |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Savegame\[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
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 |
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Separate volume controls | Effects, Music | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
German | ||||
Polish | Local retail version only. | |||
Russian | Local retail version only. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 7 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95 / 98 / 2000 / Me | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 300 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 90 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0 compatible |
|
Sound (audio device) | DirectX 8.0 compatible | |
Other | 4x CD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ 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).