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Contagion

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Contagion
Contagion cover
Developers
Monochrome LLC
Engines
Source
Release dates
Windows April 11, 2014
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Genres Survival horror
Series Contagion
Contagion on Wikipedia
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General information

Kickstarter project
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Humble Store
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Four pack available.
Windows
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Contagion OST Soundtrack
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use -novid command line argument[1]
Delete or rename video files[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\contagion\media
  2. Delete or rename contagion.bik and gameservers.bik

Game data

Cloud settings.
Cloud settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\contagion\cfg\[Note 1]
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\238430\remote\cfg\config.cfg
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/238430/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Keyboard, mouse, controller and multiplayer settings are synced.

Video

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.
Advanced graphics settings.
Advanced graphics settings.

Lens flare

This mod allows you to disable lens flares while still keeping the other post-processing effects.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.
Keyboard rebinding.
Keyboard rebinding.
Controller settings.
Controller settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Regular, ironsights and scope.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
XInput and DirectInput.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
4 available presets. Renders most DirectInput controllers unuseable, use XInput wrapper to bypass.
Controller sensitivity
Regular X and Y, ironsights and scope.
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Button prompts
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Game, music and effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Can be turned on and/or off trough the options menu
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Italian
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Turkish
Russian

Network

Splitscreen settings.
Splitscreen settings.
Network settings.
Network settings.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op, Versus
LAN play
8/16 Co-op, Versus
Hunted and Panic! gamemodes allows for 8+ players
Online play
8/16 Co-op, Versus
Hunted and Panic! gamemodes allows for 8+ players

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 27014-27050
UDP 4380, 27000-27030
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Spinning camera

Disable controller from settings[citation needed]
For more information or if playing with controller, see controller article.

Could not load library client

Install the Visual C++ 2013 redistributables.
They can be found in <Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist\vcredist\.

Re-Install the Visual C++ 2013 redistributables and reboot your PC.
They can be found in <Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist\vcredist\.

Note: If you are still having problem, uninstall every instance of Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 and install the latest version trough Microsoft's own website which you can find here: Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013.

Only x86 is required, once installed reboot your PC.

If the game still crashes while running it on Windows 10/11, run the game under Windows 7 combability mode. This should fix the issue where Windows fails to read and/or find Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Packages.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 2.0, 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio Wwise
Cutscenes Bink

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon X800
Nvidia GeForce 6600
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 2.0 support
64-bit recommended.


Notes

  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. 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>/238430/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (238430) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References