Sniper Elite

Sniper Elite

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Improvements for Sniper Elite
By Skajdrovski
This guide aims to improve the experience of Sniper Elite and optimize it for modern computers.
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Slidy/Sloppy movement
Right off the bat, you might feel like your character is running on Ice.
That's because Karl's movement is calculated, based on the Game's framerate, which it runs on.
This means the higher the FPS we get, the more messed up movement becomes.
Game used to force V-Sync by default, but since Windows 10 this functionality has been broken.

A simple solution is to cap the game's framerate at around 60 FPS... Which can't be achieved via Nvidia Control Panel anymore, because the game runs natively on a deprecated DirectX 8 API, which isn't fully supported by modern hardware nowadays. This leads us to third-party tools.

A good way to lock FPS would be to use DirectX wrapper libraries like DXVK[github.com]or D3D8-Wrapper[github.com]

An alternative to DirectX wrappers is to use a popular tool called RTSS (Rivatuner Statistics Server)[www.guru3d.com]
Game looks oddly stretched on higher Resolutions
Sniper Elite natively only supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, which on the other side 16:9 is poorly implemented... stretching out the whole game, which causes inconsistencies, like asymmetrical GUI sizing or reduced FOV. While other aspect ratios, like 21:9 are completely out of the scope.

Fortunately, a known guy from his Widescreen fixes, has also made a fix for Sniper Elite, which (obviously) fixes all the issues mentioned above. https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/releases/tag/sniperelite

All we have to do is unpack the content of "SniperElite.WidescreenFix.zip" into the game's directory.
Lack of Controller support
PC version of the game doesn't detect any controllers. Fortunately there's a workaround for that.
AntimicroX[github.com] is a mouse & keyboard remapper for controllers, which works fine to trick Sniper Elite, with plenty of customization.
18 Comments
LYING_ENGLISHMAN 6 Jan @ 11:27am 
You are an absolute legend, thank you.
Mx_Chitose 12 Jul, 2024 @ 2:05pm 
ty :)))))))))
Kojo 11 Jul, 2024 @ 7:06am 
Thanks Bro!
Jabka Goat 27 Jun, 2024 @ 12:49am 
Nevermind, Steam just bugged out, thanks!
Jabka Goat 27 Jun, 2024 @ 12:36am 
Can't access links:/
Tclizzle 31 Mar, 2024 @ 9:49pm 
Worked great for me. Thank you!
Ciocolici 29 Oct, 2023 @ 6:39am 
thanks!
Skajdrovski  [author] 24 Nov, 2022 @ 3:44am 
Should work
One2Two 23 Nov, 2022 @ 3:39pm 
just out of curiosity, does this fix works with the GOG version of the game?
Skajdrovski  [author] 28 Aug, 2021 @ 12:46pm 
Link is still working for me