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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII cover
Developers
Square Enix
tri-Ace
Publishers
Square Enix
Engines
Crystal Tools
Release dates
Windows December 10, 2015
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII on Wikipedia
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Key points

Includes all DLC except for an Aerith-themed garb, the Siegfried garb, and 14 adornments. All but the Aerith garb can be patched back in with a fan-made mod.
PC exclusive graphical features include a new lighting engine, an alternate color palette, glare and texture filtering improvements, with 4K resolution support.
Generally agreed that this game performs much better than XIII and XIII-2, with better optimization. Many players report solid 60 FPS.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Publisher website
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European store
Windows
Publisher website
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North American store
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

Essential improvements

Outerworld Addons

This mod restores the Siegfried garb. It also restores the 14 adornments, but only after completing the game once.

The Thirteenth Ark

The ability to give custom names to schemata was taken out of the PC version. This utility effectively re-enables that function, and adds the ability to lock names to specific slots.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\345350\remote\SquareEnix\LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/345350/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\345350\remote\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/345350/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Up to 64 save files (128 MB) can be synced.

Video settings

Graphics settings menu.
Graphics settings menu.

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Input settings

Keyboard remapping screen
Keyboard remapping screen

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Console Button Prompts

This mod adds PlayStation or Xbox buttons.

Audio settings

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Localizations

Japanese edition features only the Japanese language.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Japanese
Traditional Chinese
Korean

VR support

Issues fixed

Game becomes stuck at loading screen

This issue is seemingly caused by the user's Anti Virus software (Avast in particular) deleting files after installation[citation needed]
  1. Add an exception in your Anti Virus software for the installation folder, default is:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\LIGHTNING RETURNS FINAL FANTASY XIII
  2. Verify the integrity of the game cache in Steam
  3. Once the files have been downloaded, start the game and all should be well

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Input DirectInput
Cutscenes Bink

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz dual-core CPU
System memory (RAM) 1500 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 22 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800GT
ATI Radeon HD 4770
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

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>/345350/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (345350) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References