The Shield
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| Developers | |
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| Point of View | |
| Publishers | |
| Aspyr Media | |
| Russia | Noviy Disk |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | January 9, 2007 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 34 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Third-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Action, Shooter, Stealth |
| Art styles | Realistic |
| Themes | Adult, Contemporary, Detective/mystery, North America |
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Warnings
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
Availability
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Aspyr\The Shield\ |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Aspyr\The Shield\Save |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
| 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) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | Up to 8x. | ||
| High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Capped at 25 FPS. | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Widescreen resolution
- The game normally supports only 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions in the menu. It is however possible to set a 16:9 resolution by editing the
config.inifile. The resolution that will be set should have the same height as the ones in the menu (768, 600 or 480).
Modify config.ini
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Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | Aiming mode sensitivity only. | |
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | Cannot switch between keyboard/mouse and gamepad. Gamepad controls are to be bound. | |
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | DirectInput controllers only. Use an XInput wrapper. | |
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| PlayStation controllers |
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| Generic/other controllers |
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| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Digital movement supported | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| French | ||||
| Russian |
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 9 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | XP | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium IV 1.6 GHz AMD Sempron 2800 |
Intel Pentium D 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon 3200 |
| System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2.5 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible | 128 MB of VRAM |
| Other | 4x DVD-ROM Drive | |
- This game does NOT support Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000 or NT
- Some 3D accelerator cards with the chipset listed here may not be compatible with the 3D acceleration features utilized by The Shield
- Supported Nvidia chipsets: FX 5200/PCX 5300/FX 5500/FX 5600/FX 5700/PCX 5750/PCX 5900/FX 5950/6200/6500/6600/6800/7300/7800/7900
- Supported ATI Radeon chipsets: Radeon 9550/Radeon 9600/Radeon 9700/Radeon 9800/ATI Radeon X550/X600/X700/X850/X1300/X1600/X1800/X1900
- Laptop versions of these cards and integrated graphics cards are NOT officially supported.