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Not to be confused with Saboteur!.

The Saboteur
Developers

	Pandemic Studios
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	Odin
Release dates
Windows	December 8, 2009
Reception
Metacritic	76
IGDB	78
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Open world
Vehicles	Automobile, Motorcycle, Tank, Truck
Art styles	Realistic, Stylized
Themes	Europe, World War II

The Saboteur is a third-person action-adventure game taking place in the setting of World War II's Paris, France, as it is occupied by the Nazis. The actual events and situations have been altered in the name of game play and the ability to tell a single, if wide-ranging, story within this volatile setting.

The gameplay itself is a mix of third-person melee and ranged combat and various driving tasks, as presented in the Grand Theft Auto series beginning in its 3D era; and climbing, parkour and assassinations as in the Assassin's Creed series. As the title implies, sabotage of the Nazis' various materiel also takes place, usually of the explosive variety.

This was to be the last title of the developer Pandemic Studios - the publisher EA, as they have done with other studios over the years, closed Pandemic after the title was released.

This game's released state was quite buggy, with issues preventing proper display and game play, including crashes relating to CPU core affinity as well as improper map display at high resolutions (above 720p). GOG has released a version which addresses these and other issues.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability [edit]

Essential improvements [edit]

Origin to GOG patch [edit]

This patch updates Origin version of The Saboteur to GOG version. Patch only affects game's main executable. Download it here.

With this patch you'll get all the GOG fixes for your Origin release of The Saboteur: fixes for multi-core and map issues, plus enabled LAA.

Skip intro videos [edit]

Overwriting files^[2]
Use The Saboteur intro skip

Retail patches [edit]

The latest version for retail release is Patch 1.03b.

This patch may slightly improve any performance issues on ATI/AMD cards. GOG and Origin versions are already patched.

Large Address Aware [edit]

Allows the game to use more than 2 GB of RAM (already enabled in the GOG.com version, you do not have to patch it).

Game data [edit]

In-game general settings

Configuration file(s) location [edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Saboteur™\SaveGames\

Save game data location [edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Saboteur™\SaveGames\

Save game cloud syncing [edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*

Video [edit]

External video settings

In-game video settings

Windowed [edit]

Edit config file^[2]
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `config.ini`. Add `Windowed 1` at the end of the file.

Vertical sync (Vsync) [edit]

Edit config file^[2]
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `config.ini` Change `VSync 1` to `Vsync 0` to disable V-sync.

Motion blur [edit]

Edit config file^[2]
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `config.ini`. Change `PostProcessing 1` to `PostProcessing 0`.

Input [edit]

In-game control settings

In-game key map settings

Toggles [edit]

Instructions ^{[citation needed]}
Go to Documents/My Games/The Saboteur/SaveGames folder. Edit `InputTemplates.txt`. At the end of the DEFAULT section, change the following settings to YES/NO. `SPRINT_TOGGLE` `SNEAK_TOGGLE` `AIM_TOGGLE` `MELEE_STATE_TOGGLE` `MELEE_GRAB_TOGGLE`

Audio [edit]

In-game audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, effects and voices.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese				Fan translation: download (GGames)
Russian				Fan translation, ZoG.
Spanish				Fan translation, download.
Indonesian				Fan translation by IGTC Team, download.
Turkish				Fan translation by [1].

Languages can be changed by modifying entries under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\electronic arts\The Saboteur

Issues fixed [edit]

Bridges can not be blown up [edit]

When blowing up bridges, the cutscene showing the explosion is not played and the bridge remains intact. Despite this, it is listed in the statistics as destroyed.

Cap the frame rate to less than 60 FPS^[3]

Game doesn't start on a windows 10/4+ core system [edit]

Fixed in the GOG.com release.

There is no dedicated fix - just use GOG version
If you don't own GOG version of the game, use Origin to GOG patch. Fallback version of the patch may theoretically be used with retail version. Notes The problem may still persist on Windows 10 x64 build 1803

There is no dedicated fix - just use GOG version

If you don't own GOG version of the game, use Origin to GOG patch. Fallback version of the patch may theoretically be used with retail version.

Notes

The problem may still persist on Windows 10 x64 build 1803

Accessing the Stats screen and exiting the game crashes to desktop/freezes the game [edit]

Change resolution to 1920x1080^[4] ^[5]
As a workaround to exit the game at higher than 1920x1080 resolutions, select the stats screen to force the game to crash to desktop and therefore exit without freezing the game at the exit prompt. If exiting normally at 4K resolution for example, a freeze occurs which can block access to the desktop requiring a system restart to regain control (saves are not impacted by this workaround). Set the game's resolution to 1920x1080 or less (1440p and higher causes these crashes)

Change resolution to 1920x1080^[4] ^[5]

As a workaround to exit the game at higher than 1920x1080 resolutions, select the stats screen to force the game to crash to desktop and therefore exit without freezing the game at the exit prompt. If exiting normally at 4K resolution for example, a freeze occurs which can block access to the desktop requiring a system restart to regain control (saves are not impacted by this workaround).

Set the game's resolution to 1920x1080 or less (1440p and higher causes these crashes)

Low performance on modern systems [edit]

Disable shadows^[2]
Open `<path-to-game>\VideoSetup.exe`. Disable the game's shadows in the options menu.

Broken map overlay [edit]

Fixed in the GOG.com release.

Set lower resolution ^{[citation needed]}
Set the game's resolution to 720p or lower.

Game only runs at 640x480 resolution [edit]

If the refresh rate is set higher than 60 Hz, the resolution will always default back to the lowest settings

Change refresh rate ^{[citation needed]}
For running the game at higher than 60 Hz properly, see Run the game at screen refresh rate.

Set windowed mode ^{[citation needed]}
See Windowed.

Run the game at screen refresh rate [edit]

Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.

Set screen refresh rate ^{[citation needed]}
Open `VideoSetup.exe` in the installation folder. Set refresh rate to 60 Hz or less. Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide. Manual local installation may work better. If you install manually, you may have to name the Special K DLL "dinput8.dll" instead of "D3D9.dll". Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created. Open `<path-to-game>\d3d9.ini` or `<path-to-game>\dinput8.ini` or `%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\Saboteur.exe\SpecialK.ini` depending on the installation method you used. Change `RefreshRate=-1` to `RefreshRate=0` under `[Render.FrameRate]`.

Set screen refresh rate ^{[citation needed]}

Open VideoSetup.exe in the installation folder.
Set refresh rate to 60 Hz or less.
Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide. Manual local installation may work better. If you install manually, you may have to name the Special K DLL "dinput8.dll" instead of "D3D9.dll".
Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or <path-to-game>\dinput8.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\Saboteur.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used.
Change RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate].