Dead Space (2023)

This page is for the 2023 remake. For the 2008 original, see Dead Space.

Dead Space (2023)

Developers
	Motive Studios
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Physical	Limited Run Games
Engines
	Frostbite 3
Release dates
Windows	January 27, 2023
Reception
Metacritic	87
OpenCritic	89
IGDB	91
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Shooter, Survival horror
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Horror, Sci-fi, Space
Series	Dead Space

Dead Space
Dead Space	2008
Dead Space 2	2011
Dead Space 3	2013
Dead Space (2023)	2023

Dead Space (2023) is a singleplayer third-person shooter and survival horror game in the Dead Space series.

The game was received well by many critics, especially for its visuals, improved zero-gravity sections and many other changes that were made compared to the 2008 original Dead Space.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Official Forum (Answers HQ)

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		Digital Deluxe Edition also available
Origin		Digital Deluxe Edition also available. Deluxe Edition included with EA Play Pro. Manual link for EA App purchase.
Steam		Digital Deluxe Edition also available

All versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

Version differences

(Digital) Deluxe Edition: contains the base game and 5 cosmetic items; three unique suits (Infested, Lone survivor and Venture) and two unique suit textures (Sanctified and Bloody).

Pre-ordering the game through Origin or Steam granted a copy of Dead Space 2 on launch.

Monetization

Type	Notes
DLC	Edition upgrade can be bought to unlock cosmetics.
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service	Available via EA Play Pro (EA App only).

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Digital Deluxe Edition upgrade	Upgrades the game to the deluxe edition, featuring five cosmetic items; three unique suits (Infested, Lone survivor and Venture) and two unique suit textures (Sanctified and Bloody).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Steam	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Dead Space (2023)\settings\steam
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1693980/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Steam	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Dead Space (2023)\settings\steam
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1693980/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Origin
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud		Saves and some settings.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Default FOV is 55°. See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Exclusive fullscreen also available.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		No setting available to adjust AF.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		TAA with Low and High settings.
High-fidelity upscaling		DLSS 2.5, FSR 2.1
Vertical sync (Vsync)		On/Off toggle.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		All UI animations play at 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)		Ray traced ambient occlusion.
Color blind mode		Protanopia, Deuteranopia and Tritanopia options available.

This game can utilizes a tier 2 software Variable Rate Shading (VRS) solution. Can be disabled since January 30, 2023 patch.

Game's Display and Graphics menu overlays gameplay. This allows the game to show the visual differences of changing graphical settings in real-time.

Field of view (FOV)

Use Flawless Widescreen
Install Flawless Widescreen. Open the program once, and exit. Download the FWS plugin made by K4sh. Unzip the archive in FWS install directory. Launch FWS and adjust FOV slider as desired. Run the game.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Only for pause menu; does not work for inventory, map, or interactive elements.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Has separate Default, DS2 and DS1 presets. Use Custom preset to remap the control layout.
Controller sensitivity		Stick and trigger sensitivity can be adjusted separately. Seperate Camera Y-axis Speed and Camera X-axis Speed settings are also available.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Separate volume sliders available for Music, Dialogue, Sound effects and Menu narration.
Surround sound		Mono, Stereo, Multichannel (5.1 and up) and 3D headphones options available.
Subtitles		Separate settings available for Font size, Capitalization, Color, Background opacity, Speaker name and Name color.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Named Keep audio in background.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian				Translation by "Team RIG", [1].
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Issues unresolved

Traversal and streaming related stutters

The game suffers from frequent stutters when the player crosses invisible boundaries in the game, like opening a door or when walking around. This is likely caused by the game inefficiently loading in the next area, causing a large frame time spike, which is perceived as a stutter. While traversal stutter may also happen on console, it is believed to be exacerbated on PC. The more powerful the PC is, the less frequent and intense these stutters become.

Shader compilation stutters in some rare cases

Shader compilation stutters can possibly trigger during gameplay after changing graphical settings. Additionally, there are strong suspicions that the game's shader pre-compilation is not fully exhaustive in pre-compiling all shaders used by the game. This can lead to some rare shader compilation related stutters.

Inconsistent performance between runs

The same in-game scene can sometimes run with different performance between runs for unknown reasons. This happens even after changing no in-game settings and a full PC system reboot.

FSR leads to blurry animated UI

FSR doesn't properly take animations of UI-elements into account when upscaling the image, resulting in blurry and ghosting UI animations.

Issues fixed

Lower performance and random performance drops after changing graphical settings

Performance can go lower than expected after changing graphical settings in the in-game menu.

Workaround: restart the game

Shader pre-compilation does not trigger when reinstalling same GPU driver version

After reinstallation of same GPU driver version, the game's shader cache will be deleted as intended, but the game does not trigger shader pre-compilation at boot after this. Leading to huge shader compilation related stutters during gameplay.

Install a newer GPU driver version to re-trigger shader pre-compilation

Lower resolution texture used when using FSR or DLSS

When using either upscaling technique the game provides, the game uses lower resolution textures than compared to when using Native + TAA anti-aliasing option. This is not because of the upscaling, but likely due to the wrong texture mipmap being used by the game while upscaling is enabled, which should normally be biased to the output resolution of the upscaling options. There is no fix available for AMD and Intel GPU users.

Nvidia only: use Nvidia Profile Inspector to adjust LOD bias

Download and install Nvidia Profile Inspector. Open it and select the Dead Space [Remake] profile. Adjust the Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling setting to 0x00000008 AA_MODE_REPLAY_MODE_ALL. Adjust the Texture Filtering - LOD Bias (DX) setting according to upscaling mode selected. Recommended LOD bias values are: Performance mode: -1.5. Balanced mode: -1.0. Quality mode: -0.5. Notes Applies these LOD bias settings to all textures. This does not work nicely with the main menu's distortion effect, causing the main menu to flicker more than it usually does and it showing more moiré-patterns than it usually does (upscaling artifact).

"DXGI_ERROR_NOT_CURRENTLY_AVAILABLE" error at launch

Rollback the GPU driver to version 527.37 (Nvidia) or 22.5.1 (AMD)
Multiple users are reporting that this fix is not working.

Enable Debug Mode in the Nvidia Control Panel

Video logs do not replay and database interface does not show

Load a savegame

Pick up a text or audio log in-game

Incorrect tooltip in Chapter 6

When trying to accomplish the objective "Inject Weezer 6" in Chapter 6 of the game, the game asks the player to press the action key (E by default) to insert Deck System Card into a Circuit Breaker. That tooltip however is incorrect giving player the impression that the game softlocked. The tooltip is just incorrect.

Use UI Accept key (default ↵ Enter) instead, like with all other Circuit Breaker interactions

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	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 i5-8600 AMD Ryzen 5 2600X	Intel Core i5-11600K AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
System memory (RAM)	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 GB SATA SSD	50 GB PCIe SSD
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon RX 5700 DirectX 12 compatible	Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

A 64-bit operating system is required.