Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
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Developers | |
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City Interactive | |
Publishers | |
City Interactive | |
Engines | |
CryEngine 3 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 12, 2013 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 52 |
IGDB | 52 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter, Stealth |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Asia, Contemporary, Europe |
Series | Sniper: Ghost Warrior |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
Amazon.com | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | Single-player only. Includes Siberian Strike and Digital Extras DLC. |
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Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
itch.io | ||||
Steam |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Digital Extras | 4 multiplayer character and the game Soundtrack in WAV format. | |
World Hunter Pack | ||
Siberian Strike |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Disable company logos[1] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\system.cfg[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/34870/pfx/[Note 2] |
- Game data files (.pak files) are ordinary ZIP archives and can be extracted and modified.
- There are many .cfg files within .pak files with configuration variables. You can experiment with different setting by placing these cvars in
config.cfg
orautoexec.cfg
.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\SniperGhostWarrior2 |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/34870/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | UI elements on side monitors. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | See Field of view (FOV). | ||
Windowed | |||
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) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Game may set refresh rate to 24 Hz. See Run the game at screen refresh rate. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Crossfire
- Use the Crysis2 crossfire profile.
Field of view (FOV)
- This game uses vertical FOV. See FOV Calculator for help.
Field of view[2] |
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cl_fov = xx r_drawnearfov = xx pl_movement.power_sprint_targetfov = xx |
Disable motion blur
Disable motion blur[3] |
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Disable SSAO
- This will disable screen space ambient occlusion effect (shadows around object) and gain 20% frame rate boost.
Disable SSAO[4] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ↵ Enter cannot be bound to any commands. | |
Mouse acceleration | Acceleration seems to be off by default, can't be turned on. | |
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 |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | 5.1 | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | ||||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 12 | |||
Online play | 12 |
VR support
Issues fixed
Errors at launch
- Some users have reported that having ASCII characters in your Steam nickname will cause errors at launch.
Change your nickname to one with basic characters only[5] |
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Game doesn't save vsync settings
Activate Vsync and change your native resolution to another resolution and then back to your native resolution. |
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Notes
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Low/inconsistent framerate with V-Sync enabled
- Updates to Windows 10 have resulted in incompatibility with older CryEngine games, which may result in a capped frame rate.[6]
Set Low Latency Mode to Ultra[7] |
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Set max frame rate to 1000 in Nvidia control panel[8] |
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Apply RTSS framerate limiter[9][10] |
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Run the game at screen refresh rate
- CryEngine 3 may set the monitor's refresh rate to the lowest supported refresh rate, resulting in choppy gameplay even if the internal GPU render shows a high FPS.
Override refresh rate set by game[11] |
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Play the game in DirectX 9[11] |
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Workaround with a deprecated fullscreen setting[12] |
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Notes
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9.0c, 11 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP | Vista, 7 SP1 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 x2 2 GHz |
Intel Core i5 2.6 GHz AMD Phenom X4 |
System memory (RAM) | 2 GB | 4 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 9 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT AMD Radeon 3850 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 AMD 6850 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible |
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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (34870) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-15
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-15
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-15
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-15
- ↑ Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 :: Steam General Discussions :: "Invalid parameter detected in CRT function" WHAT IS THIS? - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Reddit - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ forums.guru3d.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ Reddit - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ Crysis 2 and 3 locked at 65fps - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:Vlad 54rus on 2021-03-23
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Verified by User:Keith on 2020-04-29
- ↑ Verified by User:Gymon on 2022-05-10