General information
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Availability
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
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Premium Pass |
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Warmaid Outfit |
Only available on the Bandai Namco website. |
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Design Contest Costumes |
Only available as part of the Month 1 Edition. |
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Microtransactions
Type |
Notes |
Cosmetic
| Skins, Emotes and Weapon skins for the characters. |
Currency
| SAO coins. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Input
Gamepad settings (DualShock 4 layout)
Gamepad settings
(Xbox One layout)
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Sliders for BGM, SFX, Event Voice, Voice SFX and Movie Volume as well as Environmental Sounds. Event BGM Volume is limited to three presets that cannot be adjusted. |
Surround sound |
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Stereo only.[5] |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Simplified Chinese |
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Traditional Chinese |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Korean |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Russian |
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Spanish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Issues unresolved
Misaligned bloom effect
The bloom effect may cause a misaligned phantom green residual image of the bloom effect. No known solution is available.[6]
Issues resolved
Stutter and frame drops related to Easy Anti-Cheat
There are two ways to avoid this problem:
Block Easy Anti Cheat from starting with the game[7]
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- Go into the
<path-to-game> folder. Change the "sao_al.exe" name to "Launch_Game.exe".
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Keep EAC from using too much resourse[8]
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- After the game start set thread affinity of easyanticheat process to just one core.
- This could cause the game to soft lock if screen mode is set to Fullscreen.
- This won't change online capability.
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
11 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Physics |
Havok |
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Audio |
Criware |
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Cutscenes |
Criware |
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Multiplayer |
Steamworks |
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Anti-cheat |
Easy Anti-Cheat |
Can be disabled by changing the game's .exe name. |
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
10 | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core i7-4790
| Intel Core i7-9700 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
System memory (RAM) |
8 GB |
16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
45 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7950 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Radeon RX Vega 56 8 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-07-10
- Tested at 5760x1080 custom resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-07-10
- Tested at 2560x1080 custom resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-07-10
- Tested at 3840x2060 custom resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-07-10
- Tested with a custom 1080p resolution with 50 Hz. Borderless windowed does Vsync correctly to the set refresh rate.
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2020-07-10
- Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.
- ↑ Verified by User:Tamodolo on 2020-07-11
- Tested in native 1440p resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:Tamodolo on 2020-07-11
- Changed the name of the actual Launch_Game.exe to Launch_Game1.exe. This is enough for keeping it from start.
- ↑ Verified by User:Tamodolo on 2020-07-11
- This solution can still cause some fps drops but is fairly better than doing nothing.