Silver

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) release of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Silver is a singleplayer cinematic camera JRPG game.

General information

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Availability

Get the game running on Windows 10 with nearest neighbor or xBRz scaling

Delete/rename video files^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\data\intro\`. Delete or rename `info.avi` and `intro.avi`.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVEGAME\SILVER.OPT^{[Note 1]} %APPDATA%\THQNordic\Silver\SAVEGAME\SILVER.OPT
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/THQNordic/Silver/silver.opt
Mac OS (Classic)

First path is used by retail version and second one by Digital re-release.

This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVEGAME^{[Note 1]} %APPDATA%\THQNordic\Silver
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/THQNordic/Silver/*.sav
Mac OS (Classic)

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud		Linux Steam cloud saves are stored at `$HOME/.local/share/THQNordic/Silver`, but the game actually uses `$XDG_DATA_HOME/THQNordic/Silver`

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480 only, but the THQ Nordic version allows for various degrees of filtered upscaling and stretching.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound effect, music and speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Go to Options\Preferences and set Dialogue option to "Text & Speech".
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese				Download for the digital version of the translation by ScummBR Team is available here.
Portuguese				Retail only.
Russian				Collection of unofficial localizations and review: 1) Da CrewCuts Studios / «Русский проект» 2) 7Wolf 3) Fargus/Фаргус GOG's localization Russian is presumably by Da CrewCuts Studios.
Spanish

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6	Pre-THQ Nordic versions only.
OpenGL	1.4	THQ Nordic version only.^[1]

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)					This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work* on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.*
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Smacker Video Technology

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz	Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	2 MB of VRAM OpenGL 2.0 compatible DirectX 6.1 compatible	4 MB of VRAM

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2020-10-02
THQ Nordic version uses OpenGL as indicated by the game's shaders folder using GLSL-formatted files, and the given version number used within all these shaders is 140 (1.4.0)