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Resetting game registry in Windows

This can be helpful if you are unable to get into the game, and need to change certain settings that cause crashes, for example, screen type or resolution being set too high. The methods below are specifically meant to help with changing the screen type, refresh rate, and resolutions which help with the game crashing due to either being high values and being unstable, or invalid values causing errors.

Note: You will have to delete the registry.txt file in AppData\Roaming\SCP Secret Laboratory and disable Steam Cloud for the game to prevent other versions of the file to replace over any changes.

Method 1
Windows Registry Version

Manual Way:

    1. First, you will need to make some changes:
    2. Turn off Steam Cloud Sync for the game: Right click "SCP: Secret Laboratory" in the steam library -> "Properties" -> "General" tab and toggle off "Keep games saves in the Steam Cloud for SCP: Secret Laboratory".

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      • Stay in the properties menu and navigate to "Installed Files" -> "Browse...". Find the appdata.bat and double click it, this will open another folder. Simply find and delete the registry.txt file.
    3. press windows button + R and enter regedit, then click enter or "OK".
    4. On the left side panel navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Northwood\SCPSL.
    5. In this section you will need to change a few things (This changes the fullscreen mode, refresh rate, and resolutions to lower values):
      • Change Screenmanager Fullscreen mode_h3630240806 to 2 or 3 (2 is borderless window, 3 is windowed)image.png
      • Change Screenmanager Native RefreshRate Numerator_h4243137005 to 60image.png
      • Change Screenmanager RefreshRate Numerator_h3473131500 to 60image.png
      • Change Screenmanager Resolution Height_h2627697771 to 2d0image.png
      • Change Screenmanager Resolution Width_h182942802 to 500image.png
      • Change Screenmanager Resolution Window Height_h1684712807 to 2d0image.png
      • Change Screenmanager Resolution Window Width_h2524650974 to 500image.png
    6. Make sure to save changes, then restart the game.

Automatic Way:

  • Download SCPSLreg.reg and run it, which will change the values automatically but do this at your own risk. Windows registry can be fragile, and may cause damage to your system.
Method 2
AppData registry.txt
This method targets the screen mode type.
  1. Open Steam -> Library -> find "SCP: Secret Laboratory" -> right click -> Properties -> Manage -> "Browse local files".
  2. Run "appdata.bat" (may just be "appdata").
  3. Open the "registry.txt" file.
  4. Search for 07UserSettings_0A50_2000::-%(|:: there will be a number after ::, please change it to 3 as shown below. (3 is window mode) 
    07UserSettings_0A50_2000::-%(|::3

    If this line does not exist, add it.

  5. Try running the game, it should start in windowed mode. If it worked, feel free to change your display screen type in game but you need to avoid exclusive full screen! If that does not help, try removing everything in the registry.txt file and just adding the line above.
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