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Revision as of 14:21, 8 January 2024
Developers | |
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Microids | |
Publishers | |
The Adventure Company | |
Anuman Interactive | |
DreamCatcher Interactive | |
Russia | 1C Company |
Digital | Microids |
Engines | |
Virtools | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 1, 2002 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 71 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Perspectives | First-person, Cinematic camera |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Adventure |
Art styles | Pre-rendered graphics |
Themes | Detective/mystery |
Series | Still Life |
Still Life | |
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Post Mortem | 2002 |
Still Life | 2005 |
Still Life 2 | 2009 |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | English copies use SafeDisc V2 DRM[Note 1]. French copies use LaserLock DRM. | |||
Amazon.com | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Steam | ||||
ZOOM Platform |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Create a dummy video file[3] |
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Notes
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Post_Mortem Saves\ <path-to-game>\Post_Mortem Saves\[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46550/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Post_Mortem Saves\ <path-to-game>\Post_Mortem Saves\[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46550/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Set Widescreen Resolution in DgVoodoo2, launch game, alt tab out, then back in game again, alt tab out again and back in and menu should look small, repeat out and in one more time and resolution should be widescreen with correct ui centreing. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Windowed
Create a .ini file[4] |
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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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 | SFX and music. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Retail, Steam and Zoom Platform only. | |||
Russian | Retail only. | |||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
3D Engine Error
- 3D engine initialization failed error or a 3D accelerator not found error (commonly found in Windows 8 and later).
Use dgVoodoo 2[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Startup crash
- The game may fail to start if you have too many fonts installed (especially present when running under Linux due to a bug in wine).
Modify a DLL file |
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Notes
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 350 MHz | Intel Pentium III 500 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 470 MB | 720 MB |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0 compatible | 32 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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). - ↑ 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 (46550) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Verified by User:JPulowski on 2017-30-05
- ↑ How to play this game in windows mode? :: Post Mortem General Discussions: - last accessed on May 2023