S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat News

Console release and weeklong Steam deal for all S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans

Winter is a tough season, especially in the Zone. And even though some winter days felt like late March, stalkers are jubilant to welcome the advent of spring. The season when everything is new, the world refreshes, and the Zone is no exception. Curious mutants lurking through the grass searching for adventures, artefacts and anomalies are easier to spot. Seasoned veterans are ready to find what was left under the snow, some romantic stalkers are happy to see first flowers and traders are ready to welcome newcomers.

Spring is a big deal to them, tons of rookies are looking to venture for a better life, and they need equipment, and food, and drinks, and, you can see where it goes. Most rookies go by the established route. Steam offers discounts up to 75% for classic S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games.

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But some future stalkers can venture into the unknown, that is console Zone, and try S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Legends of the Zone trilogy. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. world joins consoles, and you can try to survive and find your way with a gamepad. This route is branched into two separate entries, Xbox Store and PlayStation Store. It is up to you to choose one you prefer.

Huge new Stalker game, built by fans, is available to play right now

Well, this is a very nice way to end the year. As we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Stalker 2, and the return of GSC's iconic apocalypse shooter, what is basically a completely new Stalker game has just dropped out of nowhere, courtesy of a huge overhaul mod for the 2010 classic Call of Pripyat. With new missions, environments, music, a retooled UI, and improved graphics, this is the perfect way to keep busy before Stalker 2 gets here, and you can play it right this second.

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Gamescom is coming, as well as the demo of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists, bandits, free stalkers, players and partners are heartily invited to join us and play the demo of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl at gamescom 2023 on 23-27 August.

See you and Good Hunting Stalkers!

Fix for the 12th Generation Intel® Core™ CPUs

Minor update in the renderers initialization sequence to address issue with freezing the game on computers powered by 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors running on Windows 11.

Patch affects only R2 render (Full Dynamic Lighting @ DirectX® 9).
The reason behind this issue is the fact Intel dropped hardware support for DX9 in their integrated graphics cards found in 12th Gen (and upper) CPUs and discrete Arc GPUs.
To support older games, emulation layer called D3D9On12 is used to translate DX9 API calls to DX12 at runtime.
The game has somewhat complicated initialization which locked the emulator.
To address the issue, initialization was simplified a bit to be more emulator friendly.

Update, June 15

Thanks to the valuable patch feedback collected in this thread, we’re releasing a really tiny fix: 

R2 render (Dynamic Lighting) should now work properly on the systems with outdated DirectX End-User Runtime
Multiplayer servers with previous version should not reject clients with the new version
On numerous requests, we created public “beta” branch called “pre-win11-patch” which points to the game version without this patch
Information for modders: the only file changed in the patch is “xrRender_R2.dll”

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 🤝 Dying Light bundle is here NOW

Adrenaline roof jumps or painstaking, step by bolt, advance to the goal? Bloodthirsty zombies or predatory mutants? The nights that turn hunters to prey, or the Emission that gives you the only chance to survive by hiding as deep as possible? Together with our partners at Techland, we got you an option to add both the universes to your collection at once!

The “Dying Light Definitive Edition + S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy” bundle is already available here in Steam.