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Revision as of 23:02, 29 September 2016

Cryostasis
Cryostasis cover
Developers
Action Forms
Publishers
Steam 1C Company
North America Aspyr Media
Europe 505 Games
Japan Zoo Corporation
Engines
AtmosFear 4|AtmosFear|AtmosFear 4
Release dates
Windows February 27, 2009
Cryostasis guide on StrategyWiki
Cryostasis on Wikipedia

Key points

Supports Hardware PhysX and allows for additional PhysX effects on Nvidia cards.
Badly optimized and has numerous problems with performance, even on systems with specs way above recommended ones.[1]
Poor implementation of Shader Model 4.0. It's recommended to use Shader Model 2.0 or 3.0 instead.[2]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
DRM: SecuROM disc check.[3]
Windows
this game is no longer sold digitally.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7850/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7850/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian

Issues fixed

Noclip bug

A common problem that is encountered after saving in certain places and then reloading from that save point is the player will suddenly start clipping through walls and be unable to progress normally.
Instructions

"The program cannot start because PhysXLoader.dll is missing from your computer" error at launch

It provides no error message if launched from steam. This error only appears on direct launch.
Instructions
The error will also occur on Windows 7, even if PhysX is installed.
Instructions

"Cryostasis Termination" error on startup

On startup, the game crashes directly to an error message stating "Effect::Load() failed. screen_00.fxo File not found".
Instructions

Other information

Enable the console

Instructions

Change camera distance

Instructions

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP1
Processor (CPU) Intel Dual Core 2.0 GHz
Athlon 4000+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP) / 2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6.5 GB
Video card (GPU) GeForce 7600
Radeon X1900

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References