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Stray

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Stray
Stray cover
Developers
BlueTwelve Studio
Publishers
Annapurna Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows July 19, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 84
OpenCritic 84
IGDB 86
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Stray is a 2022 third-person adventure game. The player controls a stray cat who falls into a world populated by robots and ventures to return to his family. Players must solve puzzles to progress the narrative, including moving obstacles and traversing platforms. The player is accompanied by a drone-companion named B12, who can assist by translating the language of the robots and storing items found throughout the world.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
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Windows
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hk_project\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1332010/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hk_project\Saved\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1332010/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphic Settings (1).
Graphic Settings (1).
Graphic Settings (2).
Graphic Settings (2).

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Cutscenes are pre-rendered and pillarboxed.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Uncheck the Fullscreen box to play in Borderless Windowed mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Can be manually added with r.MaxAnisotropy=16 in Engine.ini.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Forces TAA, which can be disabled by adding r.PostProcessAAQuality=0 to Engine.ini. SSAA up to 200% through Render Resolution.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
30, 60, or Unlimited. Can be manually capped in GameUserSettings.ini.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
The configuration file GameUserSettings.ini contains two lines pertaining to HDR (bUseHDRDisplayOutput=False & HDRDisplayOutputNits=1000) which, when changed, are reset by the game upon startup. Forcing HDR in Windows handles the game as if it were SDR.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Audio

Volume Settings.
Volume Settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Volume-sliders for Master-Volume, Music, and SFX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

You can change the UI and Subtitle language in-game.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Turkish

Issues fixed

Game doesn't launch

Launch the Oculus app

For unknown reasons, those who have Oculus Quest 2 the game will marked in the task manager and not run. To start, you will need to launch the Oculus App.

Run the game in Win 7 compatibility mode
Install dxvk.[1]
  1. Download the latest version of dxvk. The file to download is is the compressed tar file dxvk-x.x.x.tar.gz, with the x representing the version number. As of writing this, the current version is dxvk-1.10.2.tar.gz. You'll need a program to open tar archives, such as 7zip, PeaZip, WinZIP, or WinRAR.
  2. Within the tar.gz file, navigate to dxvk-1.10.2.tar.gz\dxvk-1.10.2.tar\dxvk-1.10.2\x64\.
  3. Extract all the files from dxvk-1.10.2.tar.gz\dxvk-1.10.2.tar\dxvk-1.10.2\x64\ to <path-to-game>\Hk_project\Binaries\Win64. (As of writing, d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll are the required files)
Allows the game to run on Windows 7 and 8/8.1.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11, 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2300
AMD FX-6350
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti
AMD Radeon R7 360
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 12 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Steam Community :: Guide :: Windows 7 Fix - last accessed on 2022-07-20