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UFO: Aftershock

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UFO: Aftershock
UFO: Aftershock cover
Developers
Altar Games
Publishers
1C Company
Release dates
Windows October 21, 2005
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UFO: Aftershock on Wikipedia
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UFO
UFO: Aftermath 2003
UFO: Aftershock 2005
UFO: Afterlight 2007

General information

Official page
Modding forums for game series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
 EN+RU+FR+DE, patched 1.2.1
Windows
Steam
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 EN+RU, patched 1.2.1
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.3 (over 1.2 or 1.2.1): OfficialSite or StrategyCore

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Profiles\<user-id>\options.txt[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289500/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Profiles\<user-id>\Saves\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289500/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

UFO: Aftershock system settings menu.
UFO: Aftershock system settings menu.

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Widescreen resolution

Widescreen resolution[1]
  1. Download the widescreen fix.
  2. Go to the installation folder and create a backup of the original UFO.exe.
  3. Open archive and extract files from selected resolution into installation folder. Overwrite when asked.

Notes

Currently supported resolutions are 1600x900, 1680x1050 and 1920x1080.
Sometimes this fix will cause game to render partially off screen. See Off screen rendering fix bellow.
Off screen rendering fix[citation needed]
  1. Delete or rename widescreenmod.vfs file and Profile folder. Backup your saves if necessary.
  2. Run original UFO.exe, create new profile and set your options.
  3. Apply widescreen fix again and run the game.

Notes

You can keep both original exe and fixed exe in same folder, but you have to delete or rename widescreenmod.vfs because original version will load this file as well.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Anisotropic filtering[citation needed]
  1. Replace Aftershock's default desktop shortcut with the one from its Start menu folder (probably ...\Cenega Czech\UFO Aftershock), reading "High Quality" or something to that effect.
  2. Manually force 16x AF from your graphics card settings.

Notes

The resulting sharper textures and (consequentially) more detailed gloss maps add up to a significant increase in the overall visual experience, compared to "vanilla" game.

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
CC may not be if AS is not from Trilogy pack
German
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1 GHz
AMD Athlon 1 GHz		 Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
AMD Athlon 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 768 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 5700
ATI Radeon 9500 		Nvidia GeForce 6600
ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Notes

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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>/289500/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (289500) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. ↑ Fix by jackfuste from Widescreen Gaming Forum