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Hydroneer

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Hydroneer
Hydroneer cover
Developers
Foulball Hangover
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows May 8, 2020
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Hydroneer on IGDB

General information

Official Discord
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Mining\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1106840/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Mining\Saved\SaveGames
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1106840/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Only syncs save files marked to be uploaded to cloud

Video

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Vert- scaling.[1]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
70°-150° for normal (Player) or vehicle-driving cameras.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Bound to in-game overall preset. See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Bound to in-game overall preset. See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Turning Vsync on is recommended for best performance.[2]
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Uncapped.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Custom anisotropic samples[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following and save the file.
[SystemSettings]
r.MaxAnisotropy=16

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Disable TAA[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following and save the file.
[SystemSettings]
r.PostProcessAAQuality=0

Notes

Can introduce a noticable amount of texture and shadow dithering.
Enable FXAA[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following and save the file.
[SystemSettings]
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=1
r.PostProcessAAQuality=4

Notes

Enabling FXAA will disable TAA.
DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=
0: off (no anti-aliasing)
1: FXAA
2: TAA (default)

Notes

FXAA quality can be adjusted by changing the value of r.PostProcessAAQuality between 1 (low) and 6 (high).
Enable SSAA[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Engine.ini.
  3. Add the following and save the file.
[SystemSettings]
r.ScreenPercentage=150

Notes

Values between 100 and 200 are recommended.

Input

Keybindings.
Keybindings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
5.0[4]
Subtitles
Video tutorials have no subtitles; normal gameplay has no dialogue.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish

Issues unresolved

The official Discord server maintains an official "Known Bugs" channel, hydro-known-bugs.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Shader Model support 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Quad-core Intel processor 2.0 GHZ
Quad-core AMD processor 2.0 GHZ
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 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>/1106840/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1106840) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Expack3 on 2020-05-11
    Tested using 1920x810 resolution.
  2. Steam Community Discussion - 1.2.13 Patch - GPU/FPS Improvements, Removed issues with truck storage, +more - last accessed on 2020-05-11
    "MAJOR GPU OPTIMISATION, the game will now use less GPU power at lower graphical options levels, especially with v-sync on."
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Verified by User:Expack3 on 2020-05-02
  4. Verified by User:Expack3 on 2020-05-11
    Tested using Special K 0.10.x and Razer Surround.