Operation: Matriarchy

Key points

Game appears to be missing many basic sound effects, as well as having no music.^[1]

General information

Also known as Велиан - original Russian release (literally "Velian").

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		English release
Retail		TAGES 5.5 DRM for French release, StarForce 3 DRM^{[Note 1]} for Russian release.
GamersGate (unavailable)		^[6]
Steam

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Delete or rename video file^[7]
Go to `<path-to-game>\Data\Video`. Delete or rename `Intro.avi`.

This fan patch reworks most of the in-game sounds, as well as improves English translation and adds 22 pieces of music. It can be downloaded here (source).

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Data\cfg\config.cfg^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/435420/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/435420/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Non-4:3 aspect ratio resolutions may or may not cause the top and bottom of the screen to be cut off, removing the radar and health bar.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input settings.

Controller types

Sound settings.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
Shader Model support	1.1, 2.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.5 GHz AMD Athlon XP @ 1.5 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon XP @ 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce4 Ti ATI Radeon 9500 DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce 6600 ATI Radeon 9700

↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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).
↑ ^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>/435420/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (435420) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.