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Devil May Cry 4

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This page is for the original version. For the Special Edition, see Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition.

Devil May Cry 4
Devil May Cry 4 cover
Developers
Capcom
Publishers
Capcom
Russia 1C Company
Engines
MT Framework
Release dates
Windows July 8, 2008
Reception
Metacritic 78
IGDB 81
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
Art styles Realistic
Series Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry 4 on HowLongToBeat
Devil May Cry 4 on IGDB
Devil May Cry 4 guide on StrategyWiki
Devil May Cry 4 on MobyGames
Devil May Cry 4 on Wikipedia
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Devil May Cry 4 is a singleplayer action game developed and published by Capcom. It is part of the Devil May Cry series and chronologically takes place after the events of Devil May Cry 2 and five years before Devil May Cry 5.

It was released in North America on July 8, 2008, followed by releases in Australasia, Europe and Japan on July 10, July 11 and July 24 respectively.

It was later delisted from Steam on January 31, 2024.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM DRM disc check. Russian release has 2 discs: one for installing the game itself and another for installing the Russian dub.
Windows
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Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
Requires online activation
SecuROM PA DRM.
Windows
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
[1]
Windows

Demos

A demo is available here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\capcom\DEVILMAYCRY4\config.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/45700/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\capcom\DEVILMAYCRY4\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/45700/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

PC settings.
PC settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Appears to be enabled by default, but it's very weak. Improve through graphics card control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
MSAA up to 16xQ
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Also includes option for variable frame rate or 60 FPS limit.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 120 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard options
Keyboard options
Gamepad options
Gamepad options

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
All buttons can be rebound both on keyboards and gamepads.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse is not used in gameplay, only in menus.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Native XInput support.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Must be done once in chapter under system menu.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Only X-axis inversion available.
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
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
Two sliders for sound effects and music.
Surround sound
Up to 5.1 output[2]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Set Windows speaker config to Quadraphonic and use DSOAL.[3]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Retail only.
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation, download.
Italian
Japanese
Audio is available in Japan region only.
Polish
Retail only.
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation, Download.
Russian
Retail only. Patch for digital release is available here.
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State GG3D Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Devil May Cry 4 for better 3D support.
TriDef 3D
iZ3D
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Essential Improvements

No Loading When Alt+Tab -ing Back Into Game

When first booting the game it will display a loading bar at the bottom-right of the screen for about eight seconds. This same loading bar will reappear if Alt+Tab -ing back to the game while in fullscreen mode, making Alt+Tab -ing annoying. Deleting shaderlog.slg seems to fix this with no repercussions.
  1. Navigate to your Devil May Cry 4 install directory
  2. Open the nativePC folder
  3. Delete shaderlog.slg

Issues fixed

Frequent crashes in DX10 mode

Copy old dxgi.dll and d3d10.dll files to the installation folder[4]
  1. Search your C:\Windows\winsxs folder for dxgi.dll and d3d10.dll
  2. The correct dxgi.dll file was modified on 11/20/2010 or 11/21/2010 (depending on region) and is 496 KB.
  3. The correct d3d10.dll file was modified on 7/13/2009 or 7/14/2009 (depending on region) and is 0.98 MB.
  4. Copy both files to your DMC4 installation folder, where the .exe files are.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c, 10
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio XAudio2

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6600 series
DirectX 9 compatible


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>/45700/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (45700) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References