Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure

This page is for the 2006 game. For the 1997 game, see Safecracker.

General information

Availability

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\config.ini^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\Users\Profile1\config.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3260/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Users\Profile1\Save.*^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3260/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

5 profiles are available.

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

In-game general options.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		1024x768 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Edit config file to set window mode
Go to <path-to-game>. Open file `config.ini` with any text editor. Change `bFullScreen=0` to `bFullScreen=1`.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Selection between Slow, Normal, Fast.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Install WineD3D files.^[2]
Go to WineD3D For Windows and grab the `WineD3DForWindows_3.0-staging.zip` IMPORTANT: use 3.0 version, not the latest one. Unpack the archive. Copy three unpacked files `d3d9.dll`, `libwine.dll`, `wined3d.dll` to the `<path-to-game>`.

Steam version: redownload config file
Verify integrity of game files.

Switch language in config file^[3]
Go to `<path-to-game>`. Open file `config.ini` with any text editor. Change `LOC =` value to selected language code: `US` for English. `GE` for German. `IT` for Italian. `SP` for Spanish.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 800 MHz	Intel Pentium 4 1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	700 MB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0c compatible

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^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>/3260/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3260) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

Developers

	Kheops Studio
Publishers
Original	The Adventure Company
Current	THQ Nordic
Release dates
Windows	August 2, 2006
Reception
Metacritic	69
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Relaxed
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Puzzle
Art styles	Pre-rendered graphics, Realistic
Themes	Contemporary