Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Japanese only.
GamersGate		Version 1.106. English only.
Steam

Demo version available at the official site.

Essential improvements

Frame drops and stuttering on Windows 10

DirectX 8 games can be problematic on windows 10. Place one of the replacement D3D8 DLLs found here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=47772 into the root of your Recettear game directory.

This can also fix issues with many other DX8 games such as the Touhou games.

PS. Also ensure that you do not force "fast" vsync under the Nvidia control panel. You may set "force on" with no problems though.

Patches

Latest patch can be downloaded from the official site. GOG.com and Steam versions should be up to date.

Increase rendering resolution on Nvidia

Rendering resolution is locked at 640x480 resolution, resulting in jagged edges. Since this is independent of screen resolution, the 960p setting will still render 3d objects at 640x480.

Solution:

1. Download Nvidia Inspector http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/nvidia_inspector.html

2. once installed and opened, right click on Nvidia inspector in the taskbar, then click "profile inspector"

3. In profile inspector, click the yellow star on the top toolbar, that says create new profile when hovering your cursor

4. Once you typed a profile name, two icons right of the yellow star is a window with a plus, which says "add application to current profile" when hovering, click it

5. locate your Recettear exe file

6. now under anti aliasing, select "Antialiasing - Mode" Then on the dropdown menu, select "Override any application setting"

7. Underneath, select the dropdown for "Antialiasing Setting" then select "0x0000000D AA_MODE_METHOD_SUPERSAMPLE_16X_BIAS"

8. Now click Apply Changes at the top of the window.

9. Run your game from steam and enjoy (make sure you have configured your game to 1280x960 under screen resolution)

Unfortunately, I do not know a way to do this on Intel cards, and I do not have an AMD card to test with. Also, overriding resolution under Special K (a different app) will not increase render resolution. There may be a way around it, but I don't have time to experiment further.

If you have an Nvidia card, definitely try this though. The game looks way better with 16x Supersampling.

Game data

Configuration file location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\recet.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/70400/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save.dat^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/70400/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Configuration tool.

Window settings.

This game uses a launch configuration tool for video and input settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

General in-game settings.

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Localizations

Only one language included with every version. With Steam it's possible to change version from game properties.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				English version has no speech; everything is text-based.
Japanese

Issues fixed

Game crashes when starting in full screen mode

Start in Windowed mode^{[citation needed]}
Start the game in windowed mode. Change to full screen mode with `Alt`+`↵ Enter`.

Change desktop resolution^{[citation needed]}
Reduce your desktop resolution to 1024x768.

Game crashes on startup / No sound during gameplay

Fix only applicable to ASUS Xonar Soundcard

Changing settings^{[citation needed]}
Open Xonar Control Panel Under DSP, deactivate GX

Game crashes / Non-responsive main menu

Using compatibility mode^{[citation needed]}
Run recettear.exe using Windows XP Compatibility mode

Disable Steam Overlay^{[citation needed]}
Go to the game's properties Disable "Steam Overlay"

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1700+
System memory (RAM)	256 MB (XP) 512 MB (Vista/7)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	700 MB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (70400) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (70400) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (70400) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

Developers

	EasyGameStation
Publishers
	Carpe Fulgur
Release dates
Windows	December 2007