SpaceEngine
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This product is unreleased but remains under active development - information may change frequently and could be outdated or irrelevant.
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| Developers | |
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| Vladimir Romanyuk | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | Early access |
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General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Steam | |
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DLC and expansion packs
| Name | Notes | |
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| PRO | |
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| Mercury HD | Free DLC | |
| Venus HD | Free DLC | |
| Earth HD | Free DLC | |
| Moon HD | Free DLC | |
| Mars HD | Free DLC | |
| Asteroids HD | Free DLC | |
| Jupiter System HD | Free DLC | |
| Saturn System HD | Free DLC | |
| Uranus System HD | Free DLC | |
| Neptune System HD | Free DLC | |
| Pluto System HD | Free DLC | |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\config\[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/314650/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\config\[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/314650/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Cloud |
Video
SpaceEngine video settings 0.990
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | As of June 3, 2021, the interface has a fixed pixel scale, and will appear quite small at 4k and higher resolutions. | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | FOV can be changed via the lower-right toolbar, the PgUp and PgDn keys, and left mouse drag while holding Shift; Home and Middle Mouse Button toggle between the default and last-used FOV (or default zoom FOV if the FOV has not been changed since launching the program). | ||
| Windowed | Supports arbitrary window resolutions, including resolutions larger than the desktop resolution (useful for high-res screenshots) | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | Borderless window is the default fullscreen mode; for exclusive fullscreen, select a "custom display resolution" in the display menu and click "Apply". Deselect "custom display resolution" and click "Apply" to return to borderless window. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 16x AF | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA and up to 32x MSAA (can be enabled simultaneously) | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | Setting vsync to "auto" enables vsync when the framerate exceeds the refresh rate, and disables it otherwise | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Framerate is uncapped | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | "Photo mode: HDR" in-game relates to the relative brightness of on-screen objects and is unrelated to HDR display output | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | Does not have mouse acceleration | |
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | Controllers are not supported in menus outside of VR | |
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| PlayStation controllers |
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| Tracked motion controllers | ||
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| Button/gesture prompts |
| Generic/other controllers | ||
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| Button prompts |
| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Digital movement supported | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | SFX & Music | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | As of June 2021, the game has no sound effects outside of main menu interactions and spaceship engines, so the impact is minimal | |
| Mute on focus lost | Only mutes when minimized (Ctrl-Enter if in fullscreen) |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Finnish | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Spanish |
VR support
| 3D modes | State | Notes | |
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| Native 3D | Cross eye, Horizontal Stereopair, Vertical Stereopair, Anaglyph, Active (shutter) | ||
| Headsets | |||
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| SteamVR | |||
| Oculus VR (LibOVR) | |||
| Windows Mixed Reality | |||
| OSVR | |||
| Devices | |||
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| Tracked motion controllers | See Input for details. | ||
| Traditional controller | See Input for details. | ||
| Keyboard/Mouse | |||
| Play area | |||
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| Seated | |||
| Standing | |||
| Room-scale | |||
Issues fixed
Old pre-Steam versions crashing on startup on Nvidia graphics cards
- Does not apply to the current version of the program on Steam
- Crash caused by driver versions after 431.60 supplying the program with a longer list of OpenGL extensions than could be output to the log. The procedure below eliminates the issue.
Use Nvidia Profile Inspector ,
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| OpenGL | 4.4 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio | OpenAL |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 7 | 10 |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium G3240 AMD FX-4100 |
Intel Core i5-4430 AMD FX-8350 |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 GB | 50 GB |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon HD 8760 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon R9 290 |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 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>/314650/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (314650) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.