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A Plague Tale: Innocence

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A Plague Tale: Innocence
A Plague Tale: Innocence cover
Developers
Asobo Studio
Publishers
Focus Entertainment
Engines
Zouna[1]
Release dates
Windows May 14, 2019
Reception
Metacritic 81
OpenCritic 82
IGDB 81
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions Cosmetic, Time-limited
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure, Action, Stealth
Art styles Realistic
Themes Medieval, Europe
Series A Plague Tale
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A Plague Tale: Innocence guide on StrategyWiki
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A Plague Tale: Innocence is a singleplayer third-person adventure, action and stealth game in the A Plague Tale series.

General information

Official forum
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
Cosmetic The Coats of Arms DLC is purely cosmetic with no effect on gameplay.[5]
Time-limited The Coats of Arms cosmetic DLC was initially available as a preorder bonus.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Coats of Arms Cosmetic. Initially a preorder bonus, but subsequently available for purchase.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Replace video files
  1. Download and extract the replacement video files.
  2. Go to <path-to-game>\VIDEOS\NTSC\
  3. Replace LOGO.bik, LOGO_ASOBO.bik, LOGO_FOCUS.bik and LOGO_SPLASH.bik with the downloaded files.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\A Plague Tale Innocence\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/752590/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\A Plague Tale Innocence\
Microsoft Store
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\752590\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/752590/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Origin
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings
Advanced settings (1/2)
Advanced settings (1/2)
Advanced settings (2/2)
Advanced settings (2/2)

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
See the related WSGF post for a manual solution or use the community tool
Ultra-widescreen
See the related WSGF post for a manual solution or use the community tool.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Use A Plague Tale Innocence FOV Changer.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Forces TAA between the values of Low and Ultra. See Anti-aliasing (AA) for a workaround.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Double buffered in fullscreen, triple buffered in borderless
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Some issues might occur at really high frame rates (250+ fps), like enemies not moving towards sounds and lamps only turning to the left. Consider capping the framerate to a lower value in these instances (for example using RTSS).
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Disable forced TAA
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with a notepad.
  3. Scroll down and look for the AA section.
  4. Change the value of Enabled to 0
  5. Save the changes and set the file to read only.

Depth of field (DoF)

Disable Depth of field through a config file edit[6]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with a notepad.
  3. Scroll down and look for the DOF section.
  4. Change the value of Enabled to 0
  5. Save the changes and set the file to read only.

Chromatic Aberration

Disable Chromatic Aberration[7]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Look for PostProcess, and under it find the Fringe variable.
  4. Change the value of Fringe from 1 to 0.
  5. Save the file.

Film Grain

Disable Film Grain[8]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Look for PostProcess, and under it find the FilmGrain variable.
  4. Change the value of FilmGrain from 1 to 0.
  5. Save the file.

Vignette

Disable Vignette[9]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with a notepad or other text editor.
  3. Look for PostProcess, and under it find the Vignette variable.
  4. Change the value of Vignette from 1 to 0.
  5. Save the file.

Bloom

Disable Bloom[10]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with a notepad or other text editor.
  3. Scroll down and look for the Bloom section.
  4. Change the value of Enabled to 0
  5. Save the file.

Motion blur

Disable Motion blur[11]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with a notepad or other text editor.
  3. Scroll down and look for the MotionBlur section.
  4. Change the value of Enabled to 0
  5. Save the file.

Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO)

Disable Screen space ambient occlusion[12]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with a notepad or other text editor.
  3. Scroll down and look for the SSAO section.
  4. Change the value of Enabled to 0
  5. Save the file.

Screen space reflections (SSR)

Disable Screen space reflections[13]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with a notepad or other text editor.
  3. Scroll down and look for the SSR section.
  4. Change the value of Enabled to 0
  5. Save the file.

Lens flare

Disable Lens flare[14]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the ENGINESETTINGS file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Look for PostProcess, and under it find the LensFlare variable.
  4. Change the value of LensFlare from 1 to 0.
  5. Save the file.

Input

Camera settings
Camera settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Music, SFX, Dialogue
Surround sound
7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language settings
Language settings
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
1) Fan voice-over by «ВЭКА», download
2) Fan voice-over by «GamesVoice», download
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Arabic
Fan translation, Arabic Subtitles.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
new Geo-11 3D Driver (RTX3000/4000 compatible)
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues unresolved

Freezes

The game freezes randomly in chapter 6.[15][16]

Issues fixed

Characters have black textures and textures in background are black

Do not disable SSSSS in ENGINESETTINGS from configuration file(s) location.[17]
By disabling it, characters will have black textures.[18]
Do not disable VolumetricLights and LightShafts in ENGINESETTINGS from configuration file(s) location.[19]
By disabling it, black textures can be seen in background.[20]

Can't exit tent in chapter 6

Near the end of chapter 6 is a tent where you order Melie to open a chest. After that she goes through the exit but sometimes you can't go through it.[21][22]
You can try these possible solutions
  1. Try capping the game to 60 fps.[23]
  2. Use windowed mode, this will cap your fps to 60.[24]
  3. Use borderless mode.[25][26]

Frametime Spikes

Disabling Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) on a Ryzen system may resolve constant frametime spikes or erratic frametimes, providing a smoother experience by only running the game on one thread per physical CPU core. A tool such as Process Lasso[27] will allow you to disable SMT only for this game. Unknown if this is an issue on Intel systems, if so they may also benefit from disabling Hyper-threading. [Note 2]

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Wwise
Cutscenes Bink Video 1.99n

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-2120 3.3 GHz
AMD FX-4100 3.6 GHz
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
AMD Radeon HD 7870
2 GB 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>/752590/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (752590) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. Tested on the Game Pass version with the following specs: Ryzen 5800x, RTX 3080 10GB, 32GB RAM, SATA SSD

References

  1. TotemTech ToonTech Zouna ACE BSSTech Opal Timeline - last accessed on 2022-01-15
  2. GOG.com forum - Epic Store games you can play without the Epic Launcher, page 28 - last accessed on 2021-08-06
  3. Verified by User:Fayaine on 2021-08-07
    Tested by running the game with EGS closed which resulted in the game crashing then booting up EGS and starting properly after. Using the -EpicPortal command at the end of my Shortcut causes the game to just crash and not even launch EGS.
  4. Verified by User:Dribbleondo on 2024-01-03
    Spent almost an hour getting nowhere fast; each command I tried lead nowhere, and even using the firewall to block the connection didn't work.
  5. Steam Community - Zoie Shales - Review for A Plague Tale: Innocence - Coats of Arms DLC - last accessed on 2022-08-02
    "...it does absolutely nothing gameplay-wise, other then [sic] change the main characters [sic] appearance slightly and the De Rune family's coat of arms, 100% cosmetic..."
  6. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  7. How to Disable Chromatic Aberration in A Plague Tale Innocence (TheNerdMag.com) - last accessed on May 2023
  8. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  9. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  10. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  11. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  12. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  13. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  14. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  15. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  16. freezing forever in random moments - last accessed on 2024-03-14
  17. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  18. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  19. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  20. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
  21. Steam Community: Chapter 6 Tent stuck - last accessed on May 2023
  22. Steam Community: Chapter VI: Damaged Goods stuck - last accessed on May 2023
  23. Locking the game to 60 fps - last accessed on 2024-03-14
  24. Enable windowed mode - last accessed on 2024-03-14
  25. borderless full screen - last accessed on 2024-03-14
  26. Verified by User:Faust8 on 2024-03-14
    I played with Borderless, no V-Sync and 60 FPS cap with RTSS.
  27. Process Lasso - last accessed on May 2023