Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

Developers
	PopCap Games
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	Frostbite 3
Release dates
Windows	February 23, 2016
Reception
Metacritic	82
OpenCritic	81
IGDB	85

Warnings

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Mantle graphics API option requires an AMD video card with a driver version earlier than Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.5.1.

Plants vs. Zombies
Plants vs. Zombies	2009
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare	2014
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2	2016
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville	2019

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Amazon.com
Origin		Deluxe Edition included with EA Play.

All versions require Origin and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Plants vs Zombies GW2\settings

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Plants vs Zombies GW2

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Origin
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		HUD and crosshair are placed on the left monitor. Run the game in Borderless fullscreen windowed to fix that.
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		70° by default; see Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Labeled Texture Filtering.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Field of view (FOV)

70° by default and no in-game way of changing it.

Edit config[citation needed]
Go to the configuration files location. Open PROF_SAVE_profile with preferred text editor. Find GstRender.FieldOfView and change value to desired one. Notes Doesn't work for Garden Ops game mode.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Edit config[citation needed]
Go to the configuration files location. Open PROF_SAVE_profile with preferred text editor. Find GstRender.AntiAliasingDeferred and change value to desired one. 0 for nothing, 1 for 2xAA and 2 for 4xAA.

High frame rate

Edit config[citation needed]
Open <path-to-game>\user.cfg with preferred text editor. Find gametime.maxvariablefps and change value to desired one.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Supports Xbox 360 / Xbox One controllers
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		24	Versus, Co-op Up to 4 players in the co-op modes. Up to 24 in the PvP modes.
Asynchronous multiplayer		Leaderboards in some game modes.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5 650 3.20 GHz AMD Phenom X4 9850 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GT 640 AMD Radeon HD 5750