The mirror above contains one of the newest versions and should be safe to use. Update: The original site for the Float 32 mod has gone down permanently. There are some great mods coming out for STALKER, and a few of the more prominent ones are listed below:įloat32 Shader Mod - Float32 makes the graphics more realistic by adding better lighting and sharper surface effects for example, and can also improve performance. Typically all you need to do is just extract it to the directory above and it will create the appropriate subdirectories. If you've downloaded a mod, follow the directions which come with each mod as to where it should be placed. In other words this allows you to extract files from the archives, modify them, and have STALKER recognize and load them instead of the original versions. Shadow of Chernobyl, before loading them up from the archived. This will tell STALKER to first load up any game asset files which exist in appropriate subdirectories under \Program Files\THQ\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. $game_data$ = true| true| $fs_root$| gamedata $game_data$ = false| true| $fs_root$| gamedata Open this file with a text editor like Notepad, and find the following line: To use modified files with STALKER, you will first need to open your fsgame.ltx file found under the \Program Files\THQ\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. You can read this Modding Tutorial for more details, and the Russian developer notes have been translated to English here. Shadow of Chernobyl directory, they can be edited or modified as desired. Once the files have been extracted to their relevant subdirectories under the main \Program Files\THQ\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. To do this, you can use this STALKER Extractor Utility. db* archives held under the \Program Files\THQ\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. You will need to extract the game's various assets from. Making modifications to the game is relatively straightforward. Hopefully THQ will remove the CD/DVD check component of the copy protection for other regions in a future patch.Īs luck would have it, STALKER's X-Ray Engine is capable of being modified, and STALKER fans are already at work releasing new mods, despite the absence of a proper SDK from GSC. It appears the North American version of this game does not have any copy protection, and hence has no DVD check either. Note that the Russian version of the game uses the StarForce protection system, which is much worse than SecuROM. I can however say that SecuROM can cause issues, particularly startup problems - see for details. For legal reasons I can't provide any details of a No-CD or No-DVD, or other methods of bypassing copy protection.
STALKER uses the SecuROM copy protection system, which requires that the CD/DVD be kept in the drive while playing the game.
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