Fixing The Stalin Subway

This will stop "The Stalin Subway" from constantly hanging up and thus, make it playable.

Patching the Game

To get The Stalin Subway to work properly, download the patch:

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/710-the-stalin-subway-fix-12/

This patch contains the files:

audiere.dll

And

vshader/lightmap.vsh

Audiere.dll is a replacement file for the game directory. Just open up the local files for The Stalin Subway and drop audiere.dll in. Go ahead and write over the original file.

The second file, vshader/lightmap.vsh, gets added to the vshader subdirectory inside the game’s files.

Once you have placed those two files where they go, the patch is installed.

Enjoy your game!

Thanks so much to Spizy Chicken for sharing this information on the forums.

Change Log

11/18/2014 - Posted Guide
12/30/2017 - Made sure the links still worked.
7/10/2020 - Made sure the links still worked.
1/21/2021 - Made sure the links still worked.
3/20/2022 - Made sure the links still worked.
12/6/2022 - After 8 years, the link finally broke. I was able to find the patch easily though. Updated the link. Big thanks to @Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz for pointing it out.
10/15/2024 - Made sure the links still worked.

[Critical Failure]

@Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz - Thanks for the heads up. Will fix it as soon as I can.

[OrthødoxalKamikaze]

The link does not work

[TS2]

Snaip46, did you add the audiere.dll file to C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\TheStalin Subway exactly, replacing the existing file in that directory?

[TS2]

Greetings. For those of you whom are looking for a not so dodgy Audiere.DLL file link, the official SourceForge archive for it can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/audiere/files/

Also, to answer Charles's question directly, the new Lightmap.vsh file replaces the one that ships with the game by default in that game folder directory. The new Lightmap.vsh file is needed to fix broken lighting, characterized by unrealistically pitch-black interior surfaces. It may also enable 1600x1200 support and other settings typically bugged by the broken original .VSH file.

[Jeep Man Charles]

i'm confused, what is it that the vshader/lightmap.vsh fixes? are both of these just for audio fixes?

[I, Claudius #StandWithRussia]

No need to download any suspicious cheeki breeki. Just turn off music in the config file.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2426291806

[76561198034531618]

Any chances of getting a Git version or some other that displays the code in the files, rather than downloading them from a Russian URL and praying?

[mouXjou]

Super ... Thanks

[Alfred Rintaliivi]

+rep really works. Thanks alot

[larsp777]

How do you aim down the site.