Running in Windows 7

[Steemengenius]

I don't know if this will help anyone, but any new players may find this helpful. I got this game to run in Win 7 by finding the .exe file in the Program files>Steam>steamapps>common>safecracker driectory and right clicking on it. Select properties then compatibility. I ran it in XP service pack 3, 640 x 480, disable visual themes, disable desktop composition, and disable display scaling on high DPI settings. Works like a charm. This game is awesome so far, great value for the $4 I paid for it. I hope this helps others play it ^_^

[Mike06]

None of compatibility settings did work for me. The game display stutters and menus are invisible.

[theRev]

Originally posted by Mike06:

None of compatibility settings did work for me. The game display stutters and menus are invisible.

Same

[kC]

config.ini -> fullscreen 1 -> fullscreen 0, no need for any compatibility stuff

[Sun_S]

But the INI change puts the game in a window of less than half my screen's size.
Is there some shortcut to blow that up to fullscreen again?

Guess I'll try the other way now.

[Sun_S]

Compatibility management seems to have made it better. It still flickers a bit when moving. Would have to play the game for a while to see how bad/good it is. In any case, thanks for both hints (compatibility settings/INI change)!

[cyanic]

The game is fine in full-screen for me but flickers when windowed. 1366x768 native resolution, maybe that's why it worked OK.

[FC360]

Doesn't work for me, getting 1-4fps which even for this crappy laptop is very odd, was looking forward to playing it as well :(

[cyanic]

If you're getting low framerate, try rebooting. The game skips frames if it doesn't see the time move forwards, and this becomes more likely the longer you leave your computer on because floating point accuracy deminishes as numbers get larger.

[Sforzando]

This fixed absolutely every problem I was having. Thank you.

[Albatross]

Didn't work on my main PC, which is a windows 7 64-bit machine, but worked perfectly on my laptop, which was a 32-bit build.

[eastwind]

Originally posted by cyanic:

If you're getting low framerate, try rebooting. The game skips frames if it doesn't see the time move forwards, and this becomes more likely the longer you leave your computer on because floating point accuracy deminishes as numbers get larger.

This is wrong in so many ways. Time on computers is not kept in floating point. Time is not kept in terms of how long you leave your computer on, either. And even if time were kept in floating point, and kept in terms of how long you'd been booted rather than absolute time, you'd die of old age before any errors added up to enough to matter.

[#BEAMER spoopi]

i tried everything anyone suggested i have win 8.1 but my resolution is 1920x1080 and i even lowered resolution to 640 changed both files to 0 and got windowed mode yet still ends up with blackscreen with game version in corner

[scholi]

Nothing works for me for the moment. Windows 10 - 64bits.

[#BEAMER spoopi]

glad i got the game!!! haha

[Mr Miyaghi]

So I'm guessing steam abandonned this game? ( give us a solution "run in a virtual machine with windows xp " or something along those lines.

Or take it off the market if not...