Sonic Lost World

Sonic Lost World

Developers
	Sonic Team
Windows	Sega Europe
Publishers
	Sega
Engines
	Hedgehog Engine
Release dates
Windows	November 2, 2015
Reception
Metacritic	57
OpenCritic	60
IGDB	58
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Platform
Series	Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic Lost World is a third-person platform game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Humble Store
Steam

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
NiGHTMARE Zone	Included with the base game installation.

Yoshi's Island Zone and The Legend of Zelda Zone are exclusive to the Wii U version, and not available for the PC version without unofficial ports.

Add PC port of Yoshi's Island Zone and The Legend of Zelda Zone

Download DLC Restoration mod

Essential improvements

Gamma Correction

Restores the intended color correction from the original Wii U version, which is missing on PC.

Requires Hedge Mod Manager.

Wii U Font

Restores the original font from the Wii U version.

Requires Hedge Mod Manager.

Fix Depth of Field Ordering

Restores missing terrain caused by broken depth of field ordering, a problem introduced to the PC version.

Enable "Fix Depth Of Field Draw Order" code in Hedge Mod Manager.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SEGA\SLW\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/329440/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\<user-id>.sdat
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/329440/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Anamorphic 16:9. Use this plugin with Flawless Widescreen.
Multi-monitor			Anamorphic 16:9. Use this plugin with Flawless Widescreen.
Ultra-widescreen			Anamorphic 16:9. Use this plugin with Flawless Widescreen.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Use this plugin with Flawless Widescreen.
Windowed		See Window styling for window styling options.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Game only supports borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Nvidia users can force SGSSAA in Nvidia Profile Inspector with the 0x084010C5 anti-aliasing compatibility flag. Causes minor shader aliasing, especially at 2x and 4x; 4x or 8x is recommended.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS		Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS. FMV cutscenes are pre-rendered at 30 FPS.
120+ FPS		See High frame rate. If physics related issues are encountered, shift the max FPS parameter to higher or lower values.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Use dgVoodoo 2 and either Auto HDR on Windows 11 or Special K.

High frame rate

Change frame rate throttle with a command line argument

--F30 - This will change the expected throttle to 30 FPS and may help with machines around the minimum requirements. --F# - Where # is the maximum desired FPS. Recommended to reduce frame rate related issues as much as possible. --F - This will completely disable frame rate locking and allow the machine to run as best as it can; this is the most unstable mode, but it can be tried as a last resort. Notes High frame rates may cause some physics to be more intense or make the game behave in unexpected ways. 120 FPS, for example, will cause the last part of Frozen Factory Zone 4 to become unplayable due to the friction of snow becoming too intense, making it impossible to gain enough speed before the ice slope to pass the huge gap before the end. However, 144 FPS is playable on that stage by seemingly making the ice physics too intense and by extension cancelling out the increased snow friction, but also makes it impossible to accelerate on ice by constantly stopping Sonic's momentum once he hits a certain speed, requiring the player to let Sonic slide instead of actively doing it.

Window styling

Instructions
To set the window style options, find the bytes 25 FF FF FB FF 0D 00 00 CB 00 50 6A F0 51, then replace 00 00 CB 00 with your windowing parameters (e.g. 00 00 CF 00 makes the window resizable).

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers

Generic/other controllers

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

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		5.1
Subtitles		Can be disabled by pressing S during cutscenes.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Lacks the in-game option to choose different languages for audio and text present in original Wii U version.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish				Castilian.

Issues fixed

Game crashing at random parts

Turn the Grass setting off

Change your display's refresh rate to 60 hz

Game crahses at startup

Make sure there are no more than 4 controllers connected at once

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Sonic Lost World.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	Criware
Cutscenes	Criware

Modifications

Minimal HUD

Disables some "redundant" HUD elements, some of which are persistent.

Requires a mod manager, such as Hedge Mod Manager.

The current version removes the item suitcase selection circle, but there are only five icons placed vertically.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7, 8, 10	7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4200 2.0 GHz	Intel Core i5 2.66 GHz AMD Phenom II X4 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB (XP) 3 GB (Vista, 7)	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	8 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8800 ATI Radeon HD 2900 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 ATI Radeon HD 5850 1 GB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0c compatible