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Pumpkin Jack

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Pumpkin Jack
Pumpkin Jack cover
Developers
Nicolas Meyssonnier
Publishers
Headup
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows October 23, 2020
Reception
Metacritic 68
OpenCritic 74
IGDB 70
Taxonomy
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform
Pumpkin Jack on HowLongToBeat
Pumpkin Jack on IGDB
Pumpkin Jack on MobyGames

General information

Official Discord server
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Must use the executable <Path to Game>\PumpkinJack\Binaries\Win64\PumpkinJack-Win64-Shipping.exe instead of the executables in the root of the game folder for DRM free capability.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\PumpkinJack\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1186640/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\PumpkinJack\Saved\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1186640/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Vert- scaling and spanned HUD.
Ultra-widescreen
Vert- scaling with a FOV slider to compensate.[2]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
70-130, added in update 1.3.8.[3]
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
DLSS is supported.[4]
High-fidelity upscaling
DLSS 2.1
Exact used version is 2.1.35. [5] The on/off option is always performance mode (half of your set resolution)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Native support that works correctly only in DX11 mode. Add -d3d11 to the launch options to launch the game in DX11.
Ray tracing (RT)
Shadows and reflections[4].
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Chromatic aberration

Disable chromatic aberration[6]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the line [SystemSettings] if it does not exist.
  4. On the next line add r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0.

Depth of field

Can also be disabled by setting post process quality to low.
Disable depth of field[6]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the line [SystemSettings] if it does not exist.
  4. On the next line add r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effects, Music, Cinematic.
Surround sound
[7]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Latin American Spanish
Turkish

Issues fixed

VC Redist error at startup

Install VisualCppRedist AIO[6]
Should fix similar errors in other games too.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-3330 3.0 GHz
AMD FX-8300 3.3 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
AMD Radeon R9 270
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.25.3.0[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/1186640/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1186640) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-09-25
  2. Pumpkin Jack - last accessed on 2020-10-23
  3. Version 1.3.8 is now live! Also, Steam Trading Cards incoming! 🎃 - last accessed on 2020-11-04
  4. 4.0 4.1 Pumpkin Jack supports Ray Tracing and DLSS! 🎃 - last accessed on 2020-10-23
  5. Verified by User:scorpion on 2023-08-25
    used the DLSS indicator overlay to look which version is used and which resolution is used internally
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Verified by User:Keith on 2020-10-26
  7. Verified by User:Rose on 2020-10-28
    Tested on a 5.1 sound system to verify that the game makes use of the rear speakers.