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Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition

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Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition cover
Developers
Capcom
Access Games
Engines
MT Framework
Release dates
Windows June 23, 2015
Reception
Metacritic 72
OpenCritic 76
IGDB 80
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition on IGDB
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition on MobyGames
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition on Wikipedia
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition 2006
Devil May Cry 4 2008
DmC: Devil May Cry 2013
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition 2015
Devil May Cry HD Collection 2018
Devil May Cry 5 2019

Key points

A graphically updated version of Devil May Cry 4 with better shadows, enhanced lighting and tweaked/overhauled effects. Though this version doesn't allow for as high quality Anti-aliasing as the original version.[1]
Features 3 new playable characters (Vergil, Lady and Trish) along with new costumes and pallet swaps for Dante and Nero as well as the new playable characters (However Trish's Gloria and Lady's DMC3 costumes are only available through DLC).
Uses autosaving, as opposed to save slots in the original Devil May Cry 4.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Demon Hunter Bundle also available.
Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\CAPCOM\DEVILMAYCRY4SPECIALEDITION\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/329050/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\CAPCOM\DEVILMAYCRY4SPECIALEDITION\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/329050/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Approx. 320 KB available.
Settings will sync too, except graphics settings.

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
16:10 resolutions are rendered in full, then scaled down to letterboxed 16:9 with visible artifacting.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See the Steam Community guide.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Check DevilMayCry4SpecialEdition.v4.0.CT with Cheat Engine.[citation needed]
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Up to 8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Can be capped at 60 FPS or 120 FPS with variable frame rate setting.
Higher FPS can be achieved when using ingame V-Sync setting on appropriate monitor.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Depth of field

Disable depth of field[2]
  1. Open DevilMayCry4SpecialEdition.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Change the name of mbGSDOF to mxGSDOF.
  3. Change the name of uDOFFilter to xDOFFilter.

Motion blur

Disable motion blur[3]
  1. Open DevilMayCry4SpecialEdition.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Change the name of uMotionBlurFilter to xMotionBlurFilter.

God rays

Disable god rays[4]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open config.ini.
  3. Change GodRay=ON to GodRay=OFF.

Input

Mouse is not used during gameplay.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Full, separate keyboard remaping for each of the five playable characters. Game doesn't support mouse during gameplay.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Full, separate remaping for each of the five playable characters.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
BGM, SFX
Surround sound
Up to 7.1 output.[5]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Audio is available in Japan region only.
Spanish

VR support

Issues fixed

Game crashes when going to PC Settings

Follow the instructions below[6]
  1. Launch the game as normal
  2. After everything is loaded, press Alt+ Enter to force fullscreen
  3. Go to PC Settings, let the game crash
  4. Reload game, PC Settings should now work
Update DirectX[7]

Check for Windows Update, where an update also provides improvement and fixes of DirectX.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 10
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7, 8.1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 27 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
AMD Radeon HD 3850
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 10 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectSound Support (DirectX 9.0c)
Some high end integrated graphics and modern gaming laptops with a discrete GPU may work but have not been tested, nor are they officially supported by Capcom.


Notes

  1. 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>/329050/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (329050) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References