Call of Cthulhu

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

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Publisher website
GamersGate

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Origin
Steam
Discord (unavailable)

Game data

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

In-game graphics settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Vert- by default. FOV can be increased to compensate. Moving the FOV slider 9 notches to the right from the default center position gives the closest to a true Hor+ image.
4K Ultra HD		Cut-scenes are pre-rendered at 1920x1088.
Field of view (FOV)	FOV slider introduced in the first update.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Borderless windowed is the default fullscreen setting. See Exclusive fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Scales with texture quality preset. Force in GPU control panel or see Anisotropic filtering (AF) for manual adjustment.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	TAA, Low to Epic settings.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Exclusive fullscreen

Enable exclusive fullscreen^[1]

Use the -FULLSCREEN command line argument.
Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open Engine.ini.
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]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open Engine.ini.
Add the following to the end of the file and save it.

[SystemSettings]
r.MaxAnisotropy=16

Chromatic aberration

Disable chromatic aberration^[1]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open Engine.ini.
Add the following to the end of the file and save it.

[SystemSettings]
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0

Film grain

Disabling film grain also affects color grading.

Disable film grain^[1]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open Engine.ini.
Add the following to the end of the file and save it.

[SystemSettings]
r.Tonemapper.Quality=0

Input

In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Negative mouse acceleration present.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support		Static blue.
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes	, Wired

Generic/other controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Can be disabled.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

In-game remapping settings.
In-game controller layout overview.

Audio

In-game sound settings.

Subtitle example.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, voice and effects.
Surround sound		5.1 working, 7.1 unknown
Subtitles		Speaker names are displayed.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

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

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Call of Cthulhu (DX11).

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

Go to <path-to-game>\Cya\Content\Movies\
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	8, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-3450 3.1 GHz AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz	Intel Core i7-3820 3.6 GHz AMD FX-8370 4.0 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	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon R9 390 4 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit system is required.

Notes

↑ Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.15^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/399810/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (399810) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

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

[2] Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.15^[1]

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/399810/.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (399810) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/399810/.

[5] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[6] The app ID (399810) may differ in some cases.

[7] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[8] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[Waschb.C3.A4r-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Verified by User:Waschbär on 2019-11-02

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[1]

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
Genres	Action, Adventure
Themes	Interwar, Horror, Lovecraftian
Series	Call of Cthulhu