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Conan Exiles

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Conan Exiles
Conan Exiles cover
Developers
Funcom
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows May 8, 2018
Reception
Metacritic 68
OpenCritic 68
IGDB 71
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC, Subscription gaming service
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres MMO, Open world, Survival
Art styles Realistic
Themes Fantasy
Series Conan the Barbarian
Conan Exiles on HowLongToBeat
Conan Exiles on IGDB
Conan Exiles on MobyGames
Conan Exiles on Wikipedia
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Cimmerian 1991
Conan 2004
Age of Conan: Unchained 2008
Conan Exiles 2018
Conan Unconquered 2019
Conan Chop Chop 2022

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Reddit

Availability

Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM was removed on 16 June 2020.[1]


Monetization

Type Notes
DLC Additional content.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via Xbox Game Pass for PC.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Edit configuration file[2]
  1. Go to the configuration files location.
  2. Open <path-to-game>\ConanSandbox\Config\DefaultGame.ini.
  3. Find [/Script/MoviePlayer.MoviePlayerSettings]
  4. Change values to:
[/Script/MoviePlayer.MoviePlayerSettings]
bWaitForMoviesToComplete=True
bMoviesAreSkippable=True
-StartupMovies=
-StartupMovies=StartupUE4
-StartupMovies=StartupNvidia
-StartupMovies=CinematicIntroV2
Delete or rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\ConanSandbox\Content\Movies
  2. Delete or rename StartupUE4.mp4, StartupNvidia.mp4, and CinematicIntroV2.mp4.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ConanSandbox\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\ConanSandbox\Config\[Note 1]
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/440900/pfx/[Note 2]
Configuration data is stored in multiple files at the above locations.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ConanSandbox\Saved\[Note 1]
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/440900/pfx/[Note 2]
Game can be played "offline" on a local single player server or on any given server.

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Proper Hor+ scaling natively supported. Map is 16:9 image aligned to left of screen.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
FOV is in terms of vertical. Can be set more precisely in "steamapps\common\Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Game.ini" as FOV=
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See Enable HDR Output.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Enable HDR Output

Enable HDR output[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following lines:
[SystemSettings]
r.HDR.EnableHDROutput=1
r.HDR.Display.OutputDevice=5
Must be in Fullscreen mode.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Insert is permanently bound to the development console and cannot be used for other commands.
Mouse acceleration
By default acceleration is off. Negative acceleration comes from mouse smoothing.
Mouse sensitivity
Can be set more precisely and outside in-game limits in "steamapps\common\Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Input.ini" as AxisConfig=(AxisKeyName="MouseX",AxisProperties=(DeadZone=0.000000,Sensitivity=0.019671,Exponent=1.000000,bInvert=False)). Be sure to only change "Sensitivity" and to also change the value for y-axis.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

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

Localizations

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

Network

Official servers use BattlEye anti-cheat.[4]

Multiplayer types

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Allows region filtering
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Conan Exiles Beta W.I.P..
vorpX
G3D, Z3D, DirectVR
Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Anti-cheat BattlEye [5]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Quad Core i5 or Equivalent
System memory (RAM) 6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 35 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 560
AMD Equivalent
1 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 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>/440900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (440900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. PC Update (16.06.2020) - last accessed on 2020-06-17
  2. Steam Community - last accessed on 26 May 2023
  3. Unreal Engine Documentation: Enabling HDR Output - last accessed on 2020-04-03
  4. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named protection
  5. BattlEye – The Anti-Cheat Gold Standard - last accessed on 9 June 2023