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Revision as of 23:52, 27 May 2022

Life Is Strange: True Colors
Life Is Strange: True Colors cover
Developers
Deck Nine
Publishers
Square Enix
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows September 9, 2021
Reception
Metacritic 81
OpenCritic 81
IGDB 84
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Genres Adventure
Themes Contemporary, Supernatural, North America
Series Life Is Strange
Life Is Strange: True Colors on HowLongToBeat
Life Is Strange: True Colors on IGDB
Life Is Strange: True Colors on MobyGames
Life Is Strange: True Colors on Wikipedia
Life Is Strange
Life Is Strange 2015
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm 2017
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit 2018
Life Is Strange 2 2018
Life Is Strange: True Colors 2021
Life Is Strange Remastered 2022
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered 2022

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Alex Outfit Pack Pre-order bonus
Windows
Deluxe Upgrade Bonus Story: Wavelengths, Hero Outfit Pack
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Siren\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/936790/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\LifeIsStrange3\Steam\<user-id>
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/936790/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
Xbox Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.
Advanced graphics settings.
Advanced graphics settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Pillarboxed by default. See this guide for a workaround.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Forces TAA. See Anti-aliasing (AA) for a workaround.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Options for 30, 60, Unlimited.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
DirectX11 Only, fixed with Patch #3[1]
Ray tracing (RT)
DirectX12 Only[2]
Color blind mode
Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Tritanopia
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Disable TAA by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.PostProcessAAQuality=0

Depth Of field

Disable Depth Of Field by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini file with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0

Sharpening

Disable Sharpening by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini file with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0
Disables the Sharpening filter that's used alongside TAA. Recommended to use with the TAA workaround, as the game may appear oversharpened after removing TAA.

Ray-traced reflections

Enable ray-traced reflections

Does not apply to transparent surfaces eg. windows. Ray-tracing must be set to 'on' in video settings menu.

  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini file with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.RayTracing.Reflections=1

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Music, Voice Over, Sound Effects, Licensed Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Adjustable in-game text/subtitle sizes and font styles, subtitle backgrounds, speaker names.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Italian
German
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Latin American Spanish
Spanish
Japanese
Indonesian
Fan translation by IGTC Team, Download MOD

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11, 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio Ogg Vorbis, Wwise

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2300
AMD Phenom II X4 965
System memory (RAM) 6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 750Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7790
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


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>/936790/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (936790) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. LIFE IS STRANGE: TRUE COLORS - LAUNCH UPDATE 4 - last accessed on 2021-10-04
  2. FAQ & PC SPECS - LIFE IS STRANGE: TRUE COLORS - last accessed on 2021-09-08