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The Ascent

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The Ascent
The Ascent cover
Developers
Neon Giant
Publishers
Curve Digital
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows July 29, 2021
Reception
Metacritic 73
OpenCritic 74
IGDB 72
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Themes Cyberpunk
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The Ascent on IGDB
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The Ascent on Wikipedia

The Ascent is a singleplayer and multiplayer game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\TheAscent\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\CurveDigital.TheAscent_1ezqdnbhnc70m\LocalCache\Local\TheAscent\Saved\Config\WinGDK\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/979690/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Steam %LOCALAPPDATA%\TheAscent\Saved\SaveGames\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/979690/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Vert- scaling and spanned HUD.
Use the related PCGW community tool as a partial workaround.
Ultra-widescreen
Vert- scaling. Use the related PCGW community tool as a workaround.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Use the related PCGW community tool.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Forces TAA (workaround available below), DLSS is supported but only on Steam.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
On / off
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Anti-Aliasing (AA)

Disable TAA by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=0

Depth Of field

Disable Depth Of Field by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini file with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Co-op
LAN play
Online play
4 Co-op

Other information

API

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

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-3470 3.2 GHz
AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 35 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
AMD Radeon R9 390X
2 GB (Nvidia), 8 GB (AMD) of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/979690/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (979690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References