The Suffering: Ties That Bind

The Suffering: Ties That Bind

Developers
	Surreal Software
Publishers
	Midway Games
Engines
	Riot Engine
Release dates
Windows	September 30, 2005

The Suffering

The Suffering	2004
The Suffering: Ties That Bind	2005

General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		StarForce 3.5.10.01 DRM.
GOG.com

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on some versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

AiO Unofficial Patch

All-in-one patch for The Suffering series which fixes numerous bugs and adds widescreen support.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Graphics settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Use AiO Unofficial Patch or The Suffering Widescreen Fix.
Multi-monitor			Use AiO Unofficial Patch or The Suffering Widescreen Fix.
Ultra-widescreen			Use AiO Unofficial Patch or The Suffering Widescreen Fix.
4K Ultra HD			Use AiO Unofficial Patch or The Suffering Widescreen Fix.
Field of view (FOV)		Use AiO Unofficial Patch or 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)

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

Input settings

Input settings.

General settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	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

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects, dialog, music
Surround sound		7.0 (check Use 3D Sound Buffers setting in launcher)
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian				Unofficial localization by «7th Wolf».

Issues fixed

Freeze in starting courtyard

Shortly after the player gains control in the opening prison courtyard, the game freezes.

Set Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode[citation needed] Open SufferingTTB.exe compatibility settings. Enable Windows XP (Service Pack 3) compatibility mode.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

When using The Suffering Series AiO Patch, the game will set monitor's refresh rate to 60 Hz when in fullscreen mode.

Set refresh rate manually Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Suffering [TTB]\. Open Torque.ini. Change RefreshRate=60 to the desired value (e.g. RefreshRate=120).

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

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