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The Sinking City

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The Sinking City
The Sinking City cover
Developers
Frogwares
Publishers
Bigben Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows June 27, 2019
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The Sinking City on Wikipedia

General information

Official website
The Sinking City subreddit
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
Epic Games Launcher
 Day One physical edition.
Windows
Epic Games Store
Epic Games Launcher
 Necronomicon Edition is also available.
Windows
Humble Store
Epic Games Launcher
 Necronomicon Edition is also available.
Windows
Exclusive to the Epic Games launcher for at least 1 year after release.[1]

Version differences

Digital pre-orders include Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter, the Chicago Organ Grinder DLC, an extra skill point and 2 days of early access.
The Day One edition includes a map of Oakmont, the Investigator Pack and Chicago Organ Grinder DLC.
The Necronomicon Edition includes the Worshipers of the Necronomicon and the Investigator Pack DLC.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Remove the video files[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\TSCGame\Content\Movies\
  2. Remove Start_video_Frog.mp4, UE4_Logo.mp4 and UE4_Logo_BB.mp4.
A game update may restore the files.
The Epic Games Store logo and the warnings will remain, although easily skippable with button presses.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\TSCGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/750130/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\TSCGame\Saved\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/750130/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

Use an external tool to fine-tune FOV[2]
  1. Download the FOV changer.
  2. Launch the game and wait for it to load.
  3. Run the tool and press the buttons to increase and decrease FOV as instructed.
Game updates will likely require updates to the tool.
Increase FOV by changing the way it's calculated[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini in a text editor.
  3. Add the following lines:
[/Script/Engine.LocalPlayer]
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV
A significant increase from the default 16:9 value.

High frame rate

Edit the config file[4]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open GameUserSettings.ini in a text editor.
  3. Locate FrameRateLimit=0.000000 and set the value to the desired FPS cap.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Enable TAA sharpening through the config file[5]
This makes the game appear less blurry when anti-aliasing is on.
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini in a text editor.
  3. Add the following lines:
[SystemSettings]
r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0.2
r.TemporalAASharpness=0.8
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=1
Enable super-sampling through the config file[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini in a text editor.
  3. Add the following lines:
[SystemSettings]
r.ScreenPercentage=150
The 150 stands for percentage of the base resolution, equal to 1.5x. Any other value above 100 can be used.

Bloom

Disable bloom through the config file[5]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini in a text editor.
  3. Add the following lines:
[SystemSettings]
r.BloomQuality=0

Film grain

Disable film grain through the config file[5]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini in a text editor.
  3. Add the following lines:
[SystemSettings]
r.Tonemapper.Quality=0

Input settings

Controls settings.
Controls settings.
Gameplay settings.
Gameplay settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Language selection is only available from the main menu Gameplay settings.
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian

Issues unresolved

Game stuttering

Multiple high-end hardware users have reported stuttering in the game.[6][7][8][9]

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2500 3.3 GHz
AMD FX-8300 3.3 GHz		 Intel Core i7-3770 3.5 GHz
AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
AMD Ryzen 5 1400 3.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
ATI Radeon R9 380X
4 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible 		Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 290
4 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Shader model 5.0 support
A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. ↑ The Sinking City and Epic Games store - last accessed on March 20, 2019
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-25
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-26
  4. ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-25
    Set to 120.000000 and saw it reflected in the game.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-26
    Screenshots taken and compared.
  6. ↑ The Sinking City - PC Stuttering Issues + Benchmark Scene - last accessed on 2019-06-26
  7. ↑ (PC) Stuttering/hitching, any fix? - last accessed on 2019-06-26
  8. ↑ No longer get 60FPS? - last accessed on 2019-06-26
  9. ↑ Frame rate is not stable - last accessed on 2019-06-27