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Starshatter: The Gathering Storm

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Starshatter: The Gathering Storm
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Developers
Destroyer Studios
Publishers
Matrix Games
Release dates
Windows October 18, 2016
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control, Menu-based
Genres Strategy, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Flight, Space flight
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Starshatter: The Gathering Storm on Wikipedia

Starshatter: The Gathering Storm is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view, first-person and third-person strategy and vehicle combat game.

General information

Forums
Setup guide

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Essential improvements

Install open-source version

Install[1]
  1. Download the latest full version.
  2. Extract the contents to the folder of your choice.
  3. Download the latest patch for the open-source version.
  4. Extract the contents to <path-to-game>

Retail patches

All retail patches can be found here. All patches must be installed in order.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/audio.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>/key.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>/player.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>/video.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/SaveGame[Note 1]

Video

Game settings.
Game settings.
Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Modify video config file[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open video.cfg using a text editor.
  3. Edit the lines width and height to match your desired resolution.
  4. Save and close the file.

Input

Control bindings.
Control bindings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, GUI, Warning, Vox, Menu Music, In Game Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

VR support

Devices State Notes
TrackIR
Supports: Yaw, Pitch, X, Y, Z.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 2
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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).

References

  1. Verified by User:Macgovern on 2016-10-13
  2. Verified by User:Macgovern on 2016-11-10