Painkiller: Recurring Evil
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Developers | |
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Med-Art | |
Publishers | |
2012-2020 | THQ Nordic |
2020-present | Deep Silver |
Engines | |
Pain Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | February 29, 2012 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 38 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Horror |
Series | Painkiller |
Painkiller | |
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Painkiller | 2004 |
Painkiller: Overdose | 2007 |
Painkiller: Resurrection | 2009 |
Painkiller: Redemption | 2011 |
Painkiller: Recurring Evil | 2012 |
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation | 2012 |
Painkiller: Recurring Evil is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Painkiller series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Comes with a key to activate the game on Steam | |||
Steam |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Instructions |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Painkiller Recurring Evil\RE.ini |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/206760/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Painkiller Recurring Evil\Saves\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/206760/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use ThirteenAG's D3D9 Wrapper. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Use ThirteenAG's D3D9 Wrapper. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0. | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German | ||||
Russian |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9.0c | |
Shader Model support | 3.0 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista, 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1.5 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce AMD Radeon 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support |
Nvidia GeForce AMD Radeon 512 MB of VRAM |
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>/206760/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (206760) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.