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Cry of Fear

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Cry of Fear
Cry of Fear cover
Developers
Team Psykskallar
Engines
GoldSrc
Release dates
Windows April 23, 2013
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror, FPS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Europe, Horror
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Key points

Available for free.
Highly CPU dependent, recommended to run on a two threads per core CPU, e.g. any Intel Core G4000 / i3 / i7 or any AMD Ryzen series CPU.

General information

Official Mod DB page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows
Available as a standalone on Steam, or as a mod to Half-Life.
All versions require Steam DRM.

Essential Improvements

Widescreen FOV

The game by default uses Vert- to scale it's FOV, and cannot be increased through the traditional GoldSrc method.
Increase the FOV multiplier
  • Open the console and use cl_fovmultiplier to adjust FOV.
    • 1.18 for 16:9.
    • 2.33 for 21:9.

Notes

Your Hor+ FOV can be calculated by dividing your aspect ratio by width and height.

Game data

In-game advanced settings.
In-game advanced settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\cryoffear\autoexec.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/223710/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVE\[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\cryoffear\scriptsettings.dat[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/223710/pfx/[Note 2]
scriptsettings.dat stores the unlocked items[1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Mistakenly marked as a feature

Video

Launcher options menu.
Launcher options menu.
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
The game can't be launched at resolutions above 1920x1080 as it will crash, but changing the resolution after the game is loaded (using the in-game menu) works. Menus, text and interface elements become small and hard to read.
Field of view (FOV)
Open the console with ~ and type in cl_fovmultiplier XX where XX is the desired value, e.g. 1.2 or 1.3 (default is 1).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Triple Buffering.
On by default, can be switched off through the GPU control panel.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 100 FPS. See high frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

High frame rate

Instructions[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\cryoffear\ and open autoexec.cfg in a text editor.
  2. Add the following lines: 
    gl_vsync 0
fps_max 0
fps_override 1
  3. Save the file.
  4. Open your GPU control panel and force Vsync off for cof.exe.
  5. Launch the game and press ~ to open the console.
  6. Type developer 1 and then type fps_max up to 1000.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse/joystick settings.
In-game mouse/joystick settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Hook input (legacy mode)
Official controller preset(s)
Steam Controller button prompts
Cursor detection

Audio

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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Lost with Half-Life Linux update.[3]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
A3D 2.0[4] and EAX were supported.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Norwegian
Russian
Unofficial translation by Qwertyus, Psycho-A and Amilman.
Brazilian Portuguese
Unofficial translation by Alex "OAleex" Félix and Lucaz "BIG BOSS" Andrade.
Spanish
Swedish

Network

For more information, see the "Half-Life Dedicated Server" section of our GoldSrc article.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4 Co-op
Online play
4 Co-op

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 27015, 27020
UDP 27015, 27020
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Game zoomed in at 1920x1080 or higher

The game does not adjust to the dekstop's high resolution scaling. When playing at 1920x1080 or higher, the game may become zoomed in.
Enable Override high DPI scaling behaviour
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Right click on cof.exe or CoFLaunchApp.exe (the fix works on both exes) and choose Properties.
  3. Go to the compatibility tab, and click on Change high DPI settings.
  4. Check the box that says Override high DPI scaling behaviour, and in the dropdown menu, choose Application. Click Apply and then OK.
If the brightness becomes too dark, you can go to the game's Options > Advanced tab then adjust the brightness boost and contrast (the brightness and gamma sliders in the Video tab appear to be broken).[citation needed]
Set the desktop resolution scaling to 100%

Disable Mouse Accelleration

Add -noforcemparms to the launch options

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7 Lost with Linux update.[5]
OpenGL 2.1
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[citation needed]
Linux
[citation needed]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 6.0m
Cutscenes Microsoft Video 1 (CRAM)
Multiplayer Steamworks

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB 7 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM 512 MB of VRAM
Other Microsoft .NET Framework 4


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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>/223710/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (223710) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References