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Call of Cthulhu

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Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu cover
Developers
Cyanide Studio
Publishers
Focus Home Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows October 30, 2018
Reception
Metacritic 67
OpenCritic 67
IGDB 65
Taxonomy
Series Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu on HowLongToBeat
Call of Cthulhu on IGDB
Call of Cthulhu on MobyGames
Call of Cthulhu on Wikipedia
Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet 1993
Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice 1995
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth 2006
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land 2012
Call of Cthulhu 2018

General information

Official forum
Call of Cthulhu at Focus Home Interactive
Call of Cthulhu at Cyanide Studio
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Game data

In-game game settings.
In-game game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\CallOfCthulhu\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
%LOCALAPPDATA%\CallOfCthulhu\Saved\SaveGames\Configuration.sav
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/399810/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\CallOfCthulhu\Saved\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/399810/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Discord
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.

Template:Video settings

Exclusive fullscreen

Enable exclusive fullscreen[1]
  1. Use the -FULLSCREEN command line argument.
  2. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  3. Open Engine.ini.
  4. Add the following to the end of the file and save it.
[SystemSettings]
r.FullScreenMode=0

Notes

The game will switch to exclusive fullscreen once the main menu has loaded.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Adjust AF samples[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following to the end of the file and save it.
[SystemSettings]
r.MaxAnisotropy=16

Chromatic aberration

Disable chromatic aberration[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following to the end of the file and save it.
[SystemSettings]
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0

Film grain

Disable film grain[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following to the end of the file and save it.
[SystemSettings]
r.Tonemapper.Quality=0

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game sound settings.
In-game sound settings.
Subtitle example.
Subtitle example.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Fan translation by AR Team, download.
Simplified Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio Wwise

Skip Intro Videos

Skip Intro Videos
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Cya\Content\Movies\
  2. Delete or rename splash-logos.mp4

Notes

This will skip the video, however the time to reach the main menu stays the same.[1]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-3450 3.1 GHz
AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 13 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
AMD Radeon HD 7870
2 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit system is required.

Notes

  1. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.15[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Verified by User:Waschbär on 2019-11-02