Sanitarium

General information

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com
Steam

Essential improvements[edit]

Peixoto's patch[edit]

Fixes multiple issues:

Unfiltered scaling: the game will look less blurry
Deinterlaced FMVs
Fixes jerky mouse movement in the menu
Fixes crashes on multicore processors
Fixes flicker on the mouse cursor when you move it around

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DreamForge\Sanitarium\^{[Note 1]}
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVES^{[Note 3]}
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Resolution is locked to 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate is limited to 30 fps.

Windowed[edit]

Create a shortcut^[3]

Create a shortcut for <path-to-game>\sntrm.exe
Add the following command line to the target: -window or -w
Launch the game from the shortcut.

Notes

If the game becomes too slow after activating windowed mode add the following command line to the target: -e, which activates DirectDraw's emulation mode.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Limited.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, music, ambient, SFX, voice and cinematic.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Russian				Retail Russian version only. Official localization by "Новый диск/Логрус" (ND/Logrus)
Russian				Unofficial translation by «Fargus Multimedia»
Spanish				Fan translation, download.

Issues fixed[edit]

Game crashes[edit]

Use CPUGrab^{[citation needed]}

Run CPUGrab.
Run the game.

Set the OS to use only 1 CPU^{[citation needed]}

Press Windows Key+R, then type msconfig. Click on boot tab, then on advanced options.
Checkmark number of processors and put it to 1. Press ok. Restart computer. Play Game.
You will have to run msconfig and uncheck number of processors and restart to change back to using all CPUs.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	5.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Smacker Video

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 90
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	30 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 5.0 compatible

Notes

↑ When running this game without Administrator elevation, 32-bit programs writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node (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>/284050/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (284050) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

References

[HKLM-3] When running this game without Administrator elevation, 32-bit programs writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node (more details).

[Proton_path_note-4] 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>/284050/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (284050) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[gamedir-5] When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

[1] Sanitarium - ScummVM :: Wiki

[2] scummvm/configure.engine at asylum · alexbevi/scummvm

[6] Windowed Mode, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

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Developers

	DreamForge Intertainment
Publishers
	XS Games
	ASC Games
Engines
	Asylum^[1]^[2]
Release dates
Windows	April 30, 1998