Deep Rock Galactic

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Humble Store
Microsoft Store		Xbox Play Anywhere, Xbox Game Pass for PC
Steam

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions^[1]
Go to `<path-to-game>\FSD\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\` Open `Game.ini`. Add: [/Script/MoviePlayer.MoviePlayerSettings] StartupMovies= Save changes.

Skip splash screen

Instructions^[1]
See Command line arguments. Use `-nosplash`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<Steam-folder>\FSD\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/548430/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<Steam-folder>\FSD\Saved\SaveGames\Player.sav
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/548430/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

300px

In-game video settings

300px

In-game UI settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		80-110, can be increased in .ini file.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Texture quality affects anisotropic filtering and streaming memory size. Can be manually set in .ini file.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Options for FXAA and TAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Update 32 added native HDR support on PC. Windows HDR and DX12 mode must be enabled.

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

Disable lens flare

Edit Engine.ini

Go to <path-to-game>\FSD\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\.
Open Engine.ini.
Add the following:

[SystemSettings]
r.LensFlareQuality=0

Disable bloom

Edit Engine.ini

Go to <path-to-game>\FSD\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\.
Open Engine.ini.
Add the following:

[SystemSettings]
r.BloomQuality=0

Input

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In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Affected by "Inverse mouse" option.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Fixed in 14 FEB 2018 update.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

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In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, sound effects and music.
Surround sound		5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Spanish
Czech
Danish
Hungarian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Swedish
Traditional Chinese
Dutch
Ukrainian
Italian
Finnish
Japanese
Korean
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	4	Co-op Use Nucleus Coop & Unofficial mod.
LAN play
Online play	4	Co-op Crossplay between Xbox One and Windows Store.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated		This is a planned feature.^{[citation needed]}
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Low FPS on Nvidia cards

Disable NVIDIA Ansel^[2]
Go to `C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Ansel\Tools\` Run NvCameraConfiguration.exe Set Ansel to Disable and save

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12	DX12 is standard in the Windows store version It can be enabled in the Steam version in the Settings menu Up to a 70% FPS improvement in CPU limited Scenarios^[3]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	2.4 GHz Dual Core	2.4 GHz Quad Core
System memory (RAM)	6 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 AMD Radeon HD 5770 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce 970 AMD Radeon 290 1 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/548430/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (548430) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Verified by User:Whisper on 2019-03-05
↑ Are you having random fps drops? Try disabling Ansel.
↑ Verified by User:Dominik1411 on 2020-11-16
CPU limited on a Ryzen 7 3800x from 91FPS(DX11) to 155FPS(DX12)

[Proton_path_note-2] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/548430/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (548430) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[refcheck_Whisper-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Verified by User:Whisper on 2019-03-05

[3] Are you having random fps drops? Try disabling Ansel.

[4] Verified by User:Dominik1411 on 2020-11-16
CPU limited on a Ryzen 7 3800x from 91FPS(DX11) to 155FPS(DX12)

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[Note 1]

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Developers

	Ghost Ship Games
Publishers
	Coffee Stain Studios
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	May 13, 2020
Reception
Metacritic	86
OpenCritic	84
IGDB	81