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Devil May Cry HD Collection

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Devil May Cry HD Collection
Devil May Cry HD Collection cover
Developers
Original games Capcom
Remastered (2012) Double Helix Games[1]
Remastered (2012) Pipeworks Software[1]
Remastered (2012) QLOC[1]
Remastered (2018) NeoBards
Publishers
Capcom
Release dates
Windows March 13, 2018
Reception
OpenCritic 65
IGDB 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Series Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry HD Collection on IGDB
Devil May Cry HD Collection guide on StrategyWiki
Devil May Cry HD Collection on MobyGames
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition 2006
Devil May Cry 4 2008
DmC: Devil May Cry 2013
Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition 2015
Devil May Cry HD Collection 2018
Devil May Cry 5 2019

Devil May Cry HD Collection is a game in the Devil May Cry series and includes remastered versions of Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry 2, and Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition.

A controller is recommended as keyboard support is bare bones, and there is no mouse support in-game.

Devil May Cry 1 is missing some video effects (like motion blur, depth of field) and has audio bugs.[2]

Devil May Cry 3 has various effects weakened (such as motion blur, ghosting, and depth of field) and textures lack transparency.[3][4] See shu_bham and cheburat0r's fixes and DMCHD Collection Helix Mod for restoring most textures. There are no mods for restoring Greed's bloom on the top portion of the coffin, Nevan's cutscene eye flashing, or the sign's flickering at the end for example.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Version differences

Devil May Cry HD Collection: Devil May Cry HD includes only Devil May Cry 1 HD, and was given to Twitch Prime subscribers for free in March 2018.[5]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Devil May Cry HD Collection\options.sav
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\631510\remote\options.sav
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/631510/pfx/[Note 1]
Settings applies to all games in this collection. options.sav be modified with a text editor. Changing options in the launcher will overwrite any changes.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Devil May Cry HD Collection\
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\631510\remote\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/631510/pfx/[Note 1]
Stored individually per game as dmc1.sav, dmc2.sav, and dmc3.sav.

Save game cloud syncing

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

Video

Video Settings (main launcher).
Video Settings (main launcher).
Options.sav file.
Options.sav file.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Limited to 1920x1080 by default. Use DMC HD Fix by Lyall to unlock all resolutions in the launcher.
Many game elements are designed for 4:3 and are pillarboxed.
Multi-monitor
Use DDMK and enable "Force Focus" in System > Window.
Ultra-widescreen
Use DMC HD Fix by Lyall.
4K Ultra HD
Use DMC HD Fix by Lyall.
Field of view (FOV)
Uses fixed camera angles.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Enabled by 4x. No in-game option to turn it off.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Post-processing AA on or off.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
DMC 3 only. See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

DMC3 TEXTURE PACK by pepodmc

Some of the textures, Dante's bangs, Mission 7's Moon, Mission 20's demon world gate have been fixed.
Many others have been replaced with textures taken from Devil May Cry 4, changing the look significantly.

DMC1 TEXTURE PACK by TheGrimm_85

Most textures have been upscaled
Many have been replaced with very different, and sometimes lower detail, textures[6]

High frame rate

Applies to DMC 3 only.
Use DDMK[citation needed]
  1. Once DMC3 is running, press Ctrl+D to open the DDMK menu.
  2. Search for the menu entry Speed and set Main value to either 0.5 for 120 FPS or 60 divided by desired framerate for arbitrary FPS value. Example: 60/120 = 0.5, thus 0.5 would be the Main speed.
  3. Search for the menu entry System and set Frame Rate accordingly.
  4. Close DDMK menu and values will be applied automatically.
  5. See Run the game at screen refresh rate to force screen refresh rate in exclusive fullscreen.

Notes

Arbitrary framerate values such as 144 FPS have not been tested but should be possible. Using 120 FPS as primary example for game logic stability.
Physics puzzles get harder to solve (for example, the two spheres puzzle in Mission 16).

Input

Input Settings (main launcher).
Input Settings (main launcher).
Keyboard Input Rebind options (main launcher).
Keyboard Input Rebind options (main launcher).

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
No mouse support in-game.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Launcher only.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
HD and Classic presets for DMC1, no options for DMC2, fully rebindable in DMC3SE.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Xbox One variants.
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
See DualShock 4.
PlayStation button prompts
Use this mod. Only works with Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition.
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio Settings (main launcher).
Audio Settings (main launcher).

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Stereo output only. 2.1 soundmix for certain FMVs.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Brazilian Portuguese
Unofficial translation; Devil May Cry 1
Russian
Devil May Cry 1 & 2 are fan-translated; DMC3SE's translation is a port of the official localization by ND Games from the original release (subtitles only; an option for unofficial dub is included).
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Devil May Cry 1 crashing on AMD Phenom/Athlon CPUs

Several users are reporting that Devil May Cry 1 will not run on AMD Phenom processors due to a lack of SSE4.1 support.[7]
DMC 2 and DMC 3 SE do not appear to have this problem.
The AMD FX lineup is not affected.

Issues fixed

The game/launcher won't launch

Download and install DirectX Redistributable (June 2010), Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2022 32-bit and 64-bit.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 Hz even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.
Override refresh rate set by game[8]
  1. Download Devil May Cry HD Collection 3D Vision Fix.
  2. Extract the contents to the installation folder.
  3. Open d3dx.ini and go to the [Device] section.
  4. Uncomment the line ;refresh_rate=60 by removing the ; from the line and change value to 120 or higher depending on the display's refresh rate.

Devil May Cry 3 text appearing irregularly (squished/glitchy/flickering)

Mostly happens to AMD Graphics Drivers.
Regular text and subtitles may appear with garbled text underneath.
Use DXVK. More info here.
  1. Download the latest dxvk-xxx.tar.gz file.
  2. Open the archive and extract dxgi.dll and d3d11.dll from the x64 folder to the main installation folder. (same as dmc3.exe)
If DMC HD Fix by Lyall is installed, it's safe to overwrite d3d11.dll.
Fixes all text issues.
It can interfere with overlays from other products such as Fraps, Bandicam, Steam Overlay, etc.
Set dmc3.exe to run in compatibility mode to Windows 7
Only fixes the garbled artifacts, not the squished text.

VR support

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD


Mods

DDMK

Requires at least 2652019 Build ID (April 2, 2018 update) of the game.
Recently, a patch was released for the HD Collection (August 1, 2023). At the moment, the changes are unknown but it generated a bug that DDMK does not work when installed in the game, causing it to abruptly close. It is possible to downgrade only the executables of the game to make the mod work again. The executables can be downloaded here.
Features Style Switcher, Arcade mode, Boss Rush, multiplayer, texture injection, input spam reduction, and more.
  1. Download and install DirectX Redistributable (June 2010), Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2022 32-bit and 64-bit.
  2. Download DDMK here.
  3. Extract the contents of HDC folder to <path-to-game> to install the mod.
  4. After installing the mod, run DMC1/2/3 at least once so the cache files are created.
  5. Press Ctrl+D in-game to open the mod menu.

Switch HUD UI Style Names Weapon wheel

Adds style selector indicators in the interface, in the style of the Nintendo Switch version.
Requires DDMK to operate.

DMC3 PS4 Button Prompts

Can be used with the Helix Mod/DDMK by extracting the files to <path-to-game>\data\dmc3\GData.afs (a folder created upon launching DMC3 with DDMK installed, or a folder that can be manually created).
Replaces the Xbox button prompts into PS4.
Texture related prompts are only applied for the English language option.
PS4 Button Prompts Mod
PS4 Button Prompts Mod

DMC3 Nintendo Switch Button Prompts

Can be used with the Helix Mod/DDMK by extracting the files to <path-to-game>\data\dmc3\GData.afs (a folder created upon launching DMC3 with DDMK installed, or a folder that can be manually created).
Replaces the Xbox button prompts into Switch.
Texture related prompts are only applied for the English language option.
Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Button Prompts Mod
Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Button Prompts Mod

DMC3 16:9 widescreen menus mod by Vain

Changes the look of the main menu screen by making the background black instead of white.
Replaces nearly all menus in DMC3 with widescreen versions[9]
Replaces the Style part of Dante's HUD with one closely inspired by DMC4's Style HUD for better support of Style Switcher play in DDMK: the game's original HUD can be retained by not copying over the file id100.pac.
Does not replace the Bloody Palace results or tutorial messages with widescreen versions, and some of the menus such as the Mission Clear images and map cannot be changed.

DMC3 Transparency, Hell Eye, and Moon Texture Fix

Fixes the lack of hair (and Lady's bandages) transparency for all three characters in DMC3 (by shu_bham).[10]
Includes cheburat0r fixes for the pixelated Hellgate Eye texture in Mission 20 and moon texture.
Can be used with the Helix Mod/DDMK by extracting the files to <path-to-game>\data\dmc3\GData.afs (a folder created upon launching DMC3 with DDMK installed, or a folder that can be manually created).

DMC3 Antialiased Movies (shu_bham)

While most of DMC3's cutscenes are in engine, some were prerendered with in-game assets and were not re-rendered or upscaled for the HD release
Decreases the jaggedness of these scenes to better upscale for HD displays while decreasing file size of the movies.
Install by extracting the files to <path-to-game>\data\dmc3\Video and overwriting

DMC3 Coat Color and Face Fix (in-game)

Makes the ingame DMC3 Dante better resemble the cutscene model.[11]
Makes Dante's standard Coat match the cutscenes' colors and detail (by shu_bham).[12]
Includes fix to make Dante's ingame face texture match his cutscene texture (by cheburat0r).
Install by extracting the files to <path-to-game>\data\dmc3\GData.afs

An upscaled pre-rendered movie of DMC1 (TheGrimm_85)

The DMC1 pre-rendered movie has been upscaled to 720p.
Install by extracting the files to <path-to-game>\data\dmc1\Video and overwriting
Only the English version has been upscaled.
Lowered bitrate, lowered field of view

DMCHD Collection Helix Mod

3D Vision fix for Devil May Cry HD Collection meant to be run with Special K.
Provides updated texture injection and includes toggles for cutscene black bars, depth of field, bloom, ghosting, etc., with rebindable keys.
This pack includes high-res menu artwork, high-res moon, Dante hair transparency fix, and launcher fix for DMC3. Details about the hi-res artwork and texture changes can be found in this Steam discussion thread.
Does not fix the lack of texture transparency for Lady's bandage.
The part of the mod that enables the toggles conflicts with DDMK.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3 Series
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 12 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
AMD Radeon R7 260X
DirectX 9.0 compatible
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>/631510/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (631510) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References