![]() Note: no need to change compability mode of the game. You should use it all the time while playing Sanitarium.Įxample of procedure: Open "Task Manager", kill explorer.exe entries and run Sanitarium via "File" -> "Run new task". This is a BASIC method which has worked for me well until Aztec Ritual. #1 Run Sanitarium WITHOUT "Windows Explorer" running. I'd like to share here all methods which helped me with Sanitarium crashes (GOG version) and see the ending of this wonderful game.īrief system info: Windows 7 Pro, Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta installedĪttention: below you can find some spoilers but if you read this topic you are here probably for some help with crashes anyway. important: use an up-to-date Wine library. If you want you can adjust the "performance"-slider within the game to the lowest setting (clicking "-" until the scale is replaced with text), so the gameplay is more fluid To stop the flickering of the cursor and other glitches, use Winetricks to set resolution to 800圆00 so the frame rate goes up If you want to run Sanitarium under Mac OS or Linux, use Wine / WineSkin with the following settings: It works with WineSkin under Mac OS (sort of). However, and all in all, this one is a buggy mess! I did not get it to work on Windows XP SP3 or Windows 7. There under "Processes" find the game, right-click it and uncheck all CPU cores except for CPU0 (thus reducing the software to one CPU core) If you have more than one CPU core, you may need to start the game, ALT-TAB out of it and open up task manager. If possible use a tool to reduce CPU speed so that you don't have more than 1GHz of power In the field "Target:" add to the end " -e" (just blank dash e, no quotes) ![]() Make a new shortcut to sntrm.exe on your desktop (right click the file, "Send to." > "Desktop (create shortcut)" and edit this shortcut (right-click > properties). Disable DirectDraw acceleration (using dxdiag or the "Display" properties, depending on your windows) and / or Direct3D acceleration ![]() Let some other programs run in the background to reduce windowing-problems and idleing the CPU, so open up some Firefox, Outlook, Explorer, whatever you have. Under XP, 7 and above set the compatibility to "Windows 98 / ME", check "Disable visual themes" and check "Disable Desktop composition" Run the game directly (sntrm.exe in the install directory) and as Administrator (right-click the file, then select "run as administrator") Install with Administrator privileges (right-click on the setup file, select "run as administrator") and do NOT change the setup path! Here are some tipps on how to avoid this: This is due to problems with DirectDraw and the transition from cutscene back to gameplay. Most people will have problems with Sanitarium crashing all the time at the VCR scene.
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