El Matador
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Developers | |
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Plastic Reality Technologies | |
Publishers | |
2006-2018 | 1C Company |
2018-2022 | 1C Entertainment |
2022-present | Fulqrum Publishing |
Engines | |
Typhoon 2 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 25, 2006 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 54 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Shooter |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Contemporary, South America |
El Matador is a singleplayer third-person action and shooter game.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | English and German copies uses SecuROM 7 DRM, Russian copies uses StarForce 4 DRM[Note 1] | |||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | ||||
ZOOM Platform | ||||
Publisher website (unavailable) |
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\PROFILES\<user-id>\core.ini[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289280/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\TYPHOON\USERS\DEFAULT USER\SAVES\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289280/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
Multi-monitor | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 16x. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Windowed
Edit config file[3] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
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 | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 5.0; no DirectSound3D support. | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail only - revista CD Expert / DVD Game release. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation, download. | |||
Russian | ||||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Low frame rate
- This removes the single core affinity (all CPU cores will be used).
Use this file |
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Buggy Shadows
- Some of these patches must be applied for the shadow patch to work El_Matador_Centred_HUD.7z or El_Matador_Stretched_HUD.7z
Use this file |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz | Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 4 ATI Radeon 8500 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible | Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB of VRAM Shader model 2.0 support |
Notes
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 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 (289280) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Windows 8.1 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 10 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Verified by User:Zach Fett on 2022-09-04
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