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El Matador

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El Matador
El Matador cover
Developers
Plastic Reality Technologies
Publishers
2006-2018 1C Company
2018-2022 1C Entertainment
2022-present Fulqrum Publishing
Engines
Typhoon 2
Release dates
Windows September 25, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 54
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, South America
El Matador on HowLongToBeat
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El Matador on Wikipedia

El Matador is a singleplayer third-person action and shooter game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
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)
English and German copies uses SecuROM 7 DRM, Russian copies uses StarForce 4 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
Publisher website (unavailable)
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Game data

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

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\PROFILES\<user-id>\core.ini[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289280/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\TYPHOON\USERS\DEFAULT USER\SAVES\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289280/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Launcher settings.
Launcher settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Windowed

Edit config file[3]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\PROFILES\<user-id>\core.ini
  2. Change "fullscreen" 1 to "fullscreen" 0 to launch a game in a Windowed mode.

Input

In-game input settings, page 1.
In-game input settings, page 1.
In-game input settings, page 2.
In-game input settings, page 2.

Audio

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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 5.0; no DirectSound3D support.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Polish
Retail only. Patch for digital release here.
Brazilian Portuguese
Retail only - revista CD Expert / DVD Game release.
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation, download.
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Low frame rate

This removes the single core affinity (all CPU cores will be used).
Use this file

Buggy Shadows

Some of these patches must be applied for the shadow patch to work El_Matador_Centred_HUD.7z or El_Matador_Stretched_HUD.7z
Use this file

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 4
ATI Radeon 8500
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/289280/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (289280) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

Typhoon 2 engine - kotovo.artstation.com softpedia.com games.tiscali.cz