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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky cover
Developers
GSC Game World
Publishers
Deep Silver
Engines
X-Ray Engine
Release dates
Windows August 22, 2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl 2007
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky 2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat 2009
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha (Unofficial) 2014
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl 2023

Key points

Strong modding community.[1]
Retail CD-keys are now redeemable on GOG.com or Steam using the reclaim page.
Use the Multi-Patch to replace GameSpy features.

General information

Official website
Developer's forum
The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Wiki
TweakGuides guide
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
TAGES and Solidshield DRM. StarForce DRM for Russian release[2] It has been disabled via patches.
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Comes with 1.5.10 patch preinstalled.[3] Tages DRM is reported to be inactive.[4] Some CD-keys can be redeemed on GOG.com
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest version of the game is Patch 1.5.10. This version allows for additional effects with DirectX 9 rendering that were previously reserved only for the DirectX 10 renderer. It also fixes many game breaking bugs, improves overall performance and fixes some problems with Tages DRM.
The Multi-Patch replaces the GameSpy master servers and optionally forces Vsync. The Steam version is already patched.

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Instructions

Large Address Aware

Improves stability on systems with at least 3GB RAM by allowing the application to use more than 2GB RAM.

Modifications

The Sky Reclamation Project (SRP) is an unofficial patch which fixes bugs that remain in the latest official patched version of the game.
Clear Sky Complete focuses on improving graphics, sound and gameplay. A limited range of bug fixes is also included.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/20510/pfx/[Note 1]
CD key, language and GameSpy ID are stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\GSC Game World\STALKER-STCS

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/20510/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Features optional Polish voice-over translation.
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian
An official Ukrainian patch is available here, can be installed over English version from GOG.com, or any Russian version of the game.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32 Versus
Online play
32 Versus
Use the Multi-Patch to replace the GameSpy master server.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 3783, 6515, 6500, 6667, 13139, 27900, 28900, 29900, 29901
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

"Unable to connect to master server" error

The GameSpy master server has been shut down; use the Multi-Patch.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8, 9, 10, 10.1 Bound to the lighting renderer. DirectX 10.1 support was added in version 1.5.06.
Shader Model support 1.x, 2, 3, 4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Open Dynamics Engine
Audio OpenAL
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 SP4, XP SP2
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Intel Pentium IV 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 9600
Nvidia GeForce 5700
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/20510/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (20510) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References