In 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl power station. Soviet authorities established a 30km 'Exclusion Zone' around this nuclear wasteland, but in 2006 a second explosion rocked the stricken reactor, obliterating all living things and causing the Zone's boundaries to ripple outwards. From this epicenter came waves of mutated creatures, deadly radiation, and a strange, anomalous energy. The Zone was cordoned off by the military, who would shoot on sight anyone foolish enough to brave the horrors within.

It is now 2012 - man has ventured further and further into the heart of the Zone driven by reports of strange 'artifacts' imbued with anomalous energy. Mercenaries and bounty hunters compete to recover these artifacts, which command extortionate prices on the black market. Others seek to find the truth behind the Zone, while some merely revel in the desolate lawlessness of the place. Whatever their motivation, over time these individuals - Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killer, Explorers and Robbers - have become known as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s.

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About Old Good STALKER Evolution with 12 comments by K.D. on May 19th, 2013

Good news, everyone! :)

Last post wasn't capable to contain all graphics features. So let it be another one.

- Improved shadow map resolution. Stalker engine uses cascaded shadow map technology, so quality of shadows depends on resolution of corresponding texture with shadow map. Normally you can choose this resolution by using keys for stalker shortcut: -smap1536/smap2048/smap2560/smap3072/smap4096, where number is shadow map texture resolution. Also, this resolution have huge influence on high quality shadow distance (r2_sun_near console parameter). Exceeding some max distance you will see annoying stripes on all of the surfaces. For example, for -smap4096 max r2_sun_near value is only 35-50 meters.
We manage to add new shadow map resolution - 8192x8192 (-smap8192). It works well on any videocards that support DX10 and have 512 Mb of videomemory (minimum GF 8xxx and Radeon HD 2xxx). On these screens you can feel the difference:

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But that's not all :) There will be another  key - -smap16384 which can improve shadows quality even further! But for get it working you should prepare videocard with DX11 support and 1,5 Gb videomemory on-board :)

- Thermal vision. Well, it is not actually infrared vision but some kind of it. We will add some devices with it so you can use new tactical moves in combat. Watch the video.

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May 12, 2013 Paradise Lost Modification Patch 0 comments

Fixed russian title "Suit parameters" in the inventory. Setup: Copy file pl.xdb5 with replacement in folder "mods". Example: D:\Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ...

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May 12, 2013 Paradise Lost Modification Demo 12 comments

Description and setup instruction in ReadMe.txt into .7z archive. More information under spoiler.

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Realistic Flashlight

May 6, 2013 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl Full Version 0 comments

This re-does the flashlight to make it more realistic and similar to a partly broken torch, and dying batteries. There is a video demonstration in the...

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Zone of Alienation v1.07

May 2, 2013 Zone of Alienation mod Full Version 18 comments

Since I lost my place sometime back in December I've had to work on a new version of the mod to replace the old 1.05 release. 1.07 is intended to replace...

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Apr 29, 2013 Zone of Alienation mod Patch 5 comments

This is a small patch that fixes a number of bugs, most of them being description and rank bugs. In addition to fixing bugs, it corrects a few weapon...

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Hal's Traders Overhauled (Master Edition)

Apr 26, 2013 Hal's Traders Overhauled (H.T.O.) Full Version 0 comments

This is Version 1.5, READ the description, it provides information about what has changed since the LITE and PURE versions of the game and what you should...

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Geez21
Geez21 Jul 1 2011, 3:51pm says:

Could someone help me with this HUGE framerate drop of mine? All S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games have been running great for about a year now. But now suddendly, Shadow of Chernobyl gets a HUGE framerate drop (I used Complete mod, but that can't be the problem, as I have been running Complete for 6 months without problems. I even deleted Complete and it didn't help)
Call of Pripyat and Clear Sky are still running great... What's happening? Help me, please!

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seeZ0™
seeZ0™ Jul 2 2011, 5:41am replied:

I dunno, but try to reinstall stalker.
That should help.

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Geez21
Geez21 Jul 17 2011, 7:57pm replied:

I did reinstall, didn't help. But defragging the game and using GameBooster helped!

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azultain
azultain May 8 2011, 7:39am says: Online

gameplay of stalker

Xfire.com

Xfire.com

trick

Xfire.com

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Spetsnaz_Reaper
Spetsnaz_Reaper Apr 2 2011, 5:11pm says:

RevCew---AMEN BROTHER!! For the Mother land...Ukraine!! Spetsnaz!!

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Brca95
Brca95 Mar 5 2011, 8:15am says:

Stalker is one of the best games I played :D can't wait for stalker 2 and LA ...

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brolee
brolee May 24 2011, 2:57am replied:

Stalker 2 CS is cack go for 3 COP way better and by the same people who made nimber 1 I think.

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mounir112
mounir112 May 25 2011, 7:09am replied:

Stalker 2 is an entirely different game from stalker CS , its still being developed. and there is no such thing as stalker 3 its called stalker COP

just saying...

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Hedgepig23
Hedgepig23 Mar 30 2011, 10:39pm replied:

May I ask what LA is?

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lonefox91
lonefox91 Apr 7 2011, 1:11pm replied:

LA = Lost Alpha mod: Moddb.com

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