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The Suffering: Ties That Bind

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The Suffering: Ties That Bind
The Suffering: Ties That Bind cover
Developers
Surreal Software
Publishers
Midway Games
Engines
Riot Engine
Release dates
Windows September 30, 2005
 
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
MobyGames entry

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 StarForce 3.5.10.01 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements[edit]

AiO Unofficial Patch[edit]

AiO Unofficial Patch fixes numerous bugs and adds widescreen support.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System Location
Windows

Save game data location[edit]

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings[edit]

Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 Use The Suffering Widescreen Fix.
Multi-monitor
 
 Use The Suffering Widescreen Fix.
Ultra-widescreen
 
 Use The Suffering Widescreen Fix.
4K Ultra HD
 
 Use The Suffering Widescreen Fix.
Field of view (FOV)
Use The Suffering Widescreen Fix.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 16 samples.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Native support is broken. See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Anti-aliasing (AA)[edit]

Force SGSSAA[3]
  1. Download and open NVIDIA Profile Inspector.
  2. Select the game's profile or create one if it doesn't exist.
  3. Set Antialiasing compatibility to 0x00000045.
  4. Set Antialiasing - Mode to Override any application setting.
  5. Set Antialiasing - Setting to 8x Multisampling or desired level of MSAA.
  6. Set Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling to 8x Sparse Grid Supersampling or desired level of SGSSAA.
  7. Apply changes.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping
Some keys are reserved by the engine (-, +, F11, F12).
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 options Native Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, dialog, music
Surround sound
7.0
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Fan translation, available here.

Issues fixed[edit]

Freeze in starting courtyard[edit]

Shortly after the player gains control in the opening prison courtyard, the game freezes.
Set Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode[citation needed]
  1. Open SufferingTTB.exe compatibility settings.
  2. Enable Windows XP (Service Pack 3) compatibility mode.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
64-bit executable

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE, ME, 2000, XP XP SP2
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 7000 series
Nvidia GeForce2 series
Intel Graphics motherboards
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible 		DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.

References

  1. ↑ Windows 8.1 support - StarForce Support
  2. ↑ Windows 10 support - StarForce Support
  3. ↑ NVidia Anti-Aliasing Guide (updated) | guru3D Forums