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Consortium

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This page is for the original game. For the remaster, see Consortium Remastered.

Consortium
Consortium cover
Developers
Interdimensional Games
Engines
Source
Release dates
Windows January 6, 2014
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Immersive sim
Themes Detective/mystery, Sci-fi
Series Consortium
Consortium on HowLongToBeat
Consortium on MobyGames
Consortium on Wikipedia
Consortium
Consortium 2014
Consortium: The Tower EA
Consortium Remastered EA

Consortium is a singleplayer first-person immersive sim game in the Consortium series.

As of April 21, 2023, the game is no longer available for purchase.[1]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Official Forums
Manual

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
Delisted on April 21st, 2023.[2]
Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
DRM-free
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Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Delisted on April 21st, 2023.[1]
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use -novid command line argument[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\consortium\cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/264240/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\consortium\SAVE[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/264240/pfx/[Note 2]
The "quicksave" button creates a new save each time, they don't overwrite each other.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.
Advanced video settings.
Advanced video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
HUD elements are stretched.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
75-90°. See also Useful console commands.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA only with Low, Medium, High and Very High options.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Double and triple buffering only.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate or refresh rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard/Mouse settings.
Keyboard/Mouse settings.
Controller settings.
Controller settings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master and music only.
Surround sound
5.1 and 4 speakers.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Latin American Spanish

Issues unresolved

Crash to desktop

It has been reported that the game crashes to desktop at certain situations.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Distorted audio

Some users reported having distorted, noisy audio during gameplay. A temporary solution is saving and reloading.[11][12]

Flickering lights

Apparently the game has rendering problems on Windows XP. Some XP users reported having flickering lights/screen issues which makes everything brighter.[13][14] Also it should be noted that the game does not officially support Windows XP.

Freezing at loading screen

Some users reported the game freezes at the loading screen.[15][16] Developers claimed that on lower spec machines the game can take a little bit longer to load.[17]

Subtitles display multiple times

Some users reported subtitles display multiple times.[18][19][20][21] It has also been reported that restarting the game solved the problem for some users.[4][22]

Issues fixed

Complete changelog of all patches can be found here.

Other information

Useful console commands

Command Option Description
cl_fov # Adjusts field of view.
cl_showfps 0,1,2 Draws a Frames Per Second (FPS) counter at the top of the screen.
cvarlist Shows the list of convars/concommands.
r_post_ssao 0,1 Disables or enables SSAO.
r_signal_fx 0,1 Disables or enables signal effects on UI.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz
AMD Athlon X2 64 2.7 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
AMD Radeon HD 4890
DirectX 9.0c compatible


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>/264240/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (264240) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Final CONSORTIUM 2014 news post... - Steam News - last accessed on 2023-04-30
  2. DELISTING: Consortium 2019 REBALANCE, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on 2023-04-20
  3. CONSORTIUM Updates and Fixes :: CONSORTIUM Updates and Fixes
  4. 4.0 4.1 Bug Reports :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions
  5. Crash at a certain story-point :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  6. Bug Reports :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  7. Game and Steam crash after intro movie :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  8. CRASHES :: CONSORTIUM V1.1 Patch Progress - last accessed on May 2023
  9. Continuous Crashing! :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  10. Patch Feedback :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  11. Distorted audio. :: CONSORTIUM V1.1 Patch Progress - last accessed on May 2023
  12. is the constant static noise, normal? :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  13. Graphical issue - Flickering lights :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  14. Graphical issue - Flickering lights :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  15. Entering game Bug :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions: - last accessed on May 2023
  16. Game freezes in loading screen :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  17. CRASHES :: CONSORTIUM V1.1 Patch Progress - last accessed on May 2023
  18. Bug Reports :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  19. What I Think We All Think About This Game :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  20. 1.1 subtitle bug :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  21. Just a few notions after the patch... :: CONSORTIUM V1.1 Patch Progress - last accessed on May 2023
  22. Subtitles? :: CONSORTIUM General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023