Operation: Matriarchy

Key points

Game appears to be missing many basic sound effects, as well as having no music.^[1]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Steam

Delete or rename video file^[2]
Go to `<path-to-game>\Data\Video`. Delete or rename `Intro.avi`.

This fan patch reworks most of the in-game sounds, as well as improves English translation and adds 22 pieces of music. It can be downloaded here (source).

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Data\cfg\config.cfg^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/435420/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/435420/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings.

Input settings.

Sound settings.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
Shader Model support	1.1, 2.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.5 GHz AMD Athlon XP @ 1.5 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon XP @ 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce4 Ti ATI Radeon 9500 DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce 6600 ATI Radeon 9700

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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 (435420) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.