Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Developers
	PopCap Games
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	Frostbite 3
Release dates
Windows	June 24, 2014

Warnings

Mantle graphics API option requires an AMD video card with a driver version earlier than Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.5.1.

Plants vs. Zombies

Plants vs. Zombies	2009
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare	2014
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2	2016
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville	2019

General information

Official game site

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare Wiki

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Gamesplanet
Origin		Included with Origin Access Basic. Standard or Digital Deluxe

All versions require Origin DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\PVZ Garden Warfare\settings\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\PVZ Garden Warfare\settings\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Origin

Video settings

Graphics settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			Hor+ gameplay. Pillarboxed menu and cutscenes.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA. For MSAA see Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate is capped at 200 FPS. To disable cap see High frame rate.

Field of view (FOV)

70 by default and no in-game way of changing it.

Edit config[citation needed] Go to the configuration files location. Open PROF_SAVE_profile with preferred text editor. Find GstRender.FieldOfView and change value to desired one. Notes Doesn't work for Garden Ops game mode.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Edit config[citation needed] Go to the configuration files location. Open PROF_SAVE_profile with preferred text editor. Find GstRender.AntiAliasingDeferred and change value to desired one. 0 for nothing, 1 for 2xAA and 2 for 4xAA.

High frame rate

Edit config[citation needed] Open <path-to-game>\user.cfg with preferred text editor. Find gametime.maxvariablefps and change value to desired one.

Input settings

Control settings.

Key rebinding.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Push-to-talk unrebindable.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Minor issues when controller is present, including cursor disappearing and being unable to click buttons.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Push-to-talk unrebindable.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master and music.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Most speech is mumbling.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		24	Versus, Co-op Up to 4 players PvE as plants in Garden Ops. Up to 24 players PvP as plants or zombies in Multiplayer.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

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

Issues fixed

Game crashes

Disable the Origin in-game overlay[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Mantle support

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	7, 8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core Duo 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	15 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 5750 Nvidia GeForce 8800GT DirectX 10.0 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0c Compatible
Other	Internet connection to install and play

64-bit OS required.