Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Developers
	Respawn Entertainment
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	November 15, 2019
Reception
Metacritic	81
OpenCritic	83
IGDB	83
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Metroidvania
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Star Wars Jedi

Star Wars Jedi
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	2019
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor	2023

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is a singleplayer action game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. This singleplayer game is set in the Star Wars universe and takes place between the prequel film trilogy and the original film trilogy. The protagonist of the game is Cal Kestis, a young Jedi Padawan. It serves as a prequel to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

It was released on November 15, 2019.

General information

Official forum

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Download-only; no disc is included in the physical box.
Epic Games Store		Deluxe Edition also available.
Microsoft Store		Included exclusively with Xbox Game Pass for PC as part of its version of EA Play.
Origin		Included with EA Play and EA Play Pro: Deluxe Edition. Manual link for EA App purchase.
Steam		Deluxe Edition also available. Included with EA Play (Steam). DRM-free when launched directly via <path-to-game>\SwGame\Binaries\Win64\SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe while EA app is not installed.
(unavailable)		Deluxe Edition was also available.
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)		Deluxe Edition was also available.
Humble Store (unavailable)		Deluxe Edition was also available.

Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM was removed on November 9, 2021.

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service	Available via EA Play.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Pre-purchase	Unique cosmetics for the lightsaber and droid companion. Varies by retailer.
Deluxe Edition	Unique cosmetics for the lightsaber and droid companion as well as digital art book and behind the scenes video.

Pre-order content was made free on February 15, 2020

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Remove the video files
Go to <path-to-game>\SwGame\Content\Movies. Rename or remove Default_Startup.mp4 and Default_Startup_Loop.mp4. Notes A game update will likely restore the files. The screen will be black while the main menu is being loaded, but overall there is a decrease in launch time.

Launch game in Steam without EA app

Start game in Steam without adding it as a "non-Steam" game

Type in the full file path for SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe as a command line argument. Example: <path-to-game>\SwGame\Binaries\Win64\SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe If using Linux or a Steam Deck, use cmd=( %command% ); cmd[-1]="$STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH/SwGame/Binaries/Win64/SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe"; "${cmd[@]}" Go to <path-to-game>\ and remove or rename installScript.vdf. This file tells Steam to install Origin/EA app. You can inspect it by opening it with Notepad. Also make sure that the Origin/EA app is not installed on your PC.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\SwGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Respawn\JediFallenOrder\GameUserSettings.sav
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1172380/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Respawn\JediFallenOrder\
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1172380/pfx/

Photo mode screenshots location

Platform	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\SwGame\Saved\Screenshots\WindowsNoEditor\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher		Handled through the cloud sync of Origin.
Origin
Steam Cloud		Handled through the cloud sync of Origin.
Xbox Cloud

Video

Video settings

Visual settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Hor+ gameplay and pillarboxed cutscenes. Use this mod as a workaround.
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+ gameplay and pillarboxed cutscenes. Use this mod as a workaround.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Use the FOV trainer.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Scales with Texture Quality.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Uses TAA, with presets of Medium, High, and Epic. Also see Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		FPS limiter can be set to one of 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, or 144 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Enable HDR for the monitor in the Display settings of Windows, then configure the game to Fullscreen mode and the HDR option should appear.
Ray tracing (RT)

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Disable anti-aliasing
Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\SwGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor. Open GameUserSettings.ini with Notepad. Scroll down to [ScalabilityGroups] and change sg.AntiAliasingQuality=x to sg.AntiAliasingQuality=0.

Post-processing

Motion blur in the settings doesn't disable the blur that applies to character models.

Disable certain post-processing effects

Download the Star Wars Fallen Order Custom .INI Kit and follow usage instructions. Add the following lines to the [SystemSettings] portion of the downloaded DefaultEngine.ini depending on which effect you want to disable. r.SceneColorFringe.Max=0 ; Disable chromatic aberration r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0 ; Disable depth of field r.ToneMapper.Quality=0 ; Disable vignette r.DefaultFeature.MotionBlur 0 ; Disable motion blur r.MotionBlurQuality=0 ; Disable motion blur

Input

Input settings

Xbox bindings

DualShock 4 bindings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Negative acceleration by default.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		DualShock 4
PlayStation button prompts		DualShock prompts.
Light bar support		Static blue
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes	Wired, Wireless (DualShock 4 USB Wireless Adapter) V2 tested. Bluetooth was non-functional, altough it can be worked around adding the game.exe to steam and launching trough it.

Generic/other controllers

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

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  Full input bindings

Audio

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Game, Music, Effects, Dialogue
Surround sound		7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic				Fan translation by AR Team, download.
Czech				Czech fan translation is available at Farflame.cz
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Slovak				Fan translation, download.
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Turkish				Fan translation, Apex Çeviri.

Issues fixed

Motion blur not disabled

Motion blur in the settings doesn't disable the blur that applies to character models.

See Post-processing

Shader compilation stutter

The game suffers from severe shader compilation related stutters during gameplay.

Inject DXVK

Injecting DXVK to use the Vulkan API, instead of DirectX 11, seems to improve the stability and performance of gameplay. It tends to distribute the heavy CPU load to the GPU, as well. Due to DXVK's nature it relies on shader cache, which is compiled during the first use of that shader. Because of that you can experience increased short stutter at the beginning of your playthrough, which is completely normal and will not reoccur after compilation has finished. dxvk-gplasync patch by Ph42oN and Sporif (the most updated "async" solution) alleviates this problem by making the compilation asynchronous and is recommended over "regular" dxvk. However and somewhat contradictingly, a recent benchmark of this game with different DXVK solutions seems to point to less stuttering using an older version of "Async" (dxvk-async 1.10.3) or even "regular dxvk" (DXVK version 2.3) as producing even less stuttering than the latest and more upket GPLAsync version (2.3-1, at the time), so better luck might be had using those. Although any of these vastly improves native DX11, anyway.

Create shaders on load (works with some scenes only)
Download the Star Wars Fallen Order Custom .INI Kit and follow usage instructions. Add r.CreateShadersOnLoad=1 to the [SystemSettings] portion of the downloaded DefaultEngine.ini.

Corrupt save game

Users have reported issues where the save game can become corrupt if something affects the save process of the game, resulting in non-working saves and lost progress.

Possible fix: Restore the backup save game[citation needed]
Navigate to Save game data location. Create a copy of the whole save folder on another location so a backup is available. Rename or delete SaveGame00.sav Rename Backup00.sav to SaveGame00.sav Run the game and see if the backup save can be read.

High CPU usage or stuttering

Use BES to reduce CPU use by the game
Download BES. Unpack the archive and run BES.exe as administrator. Launch the game. In the BES window, click on Target... and select starwarsjedifallenorder.exe from the list. Click on Limit this (temporary) or Limit/Watch (persistent) and confirm by clicking on Yes. Move the slider below to put the limit at -5% or experiment with other values.

Disabling Origin overlay
Launch the game. Tab out of the game. Go to Origin -> Application Settings menu. Leave Origin on that menu and tab back into the game. Notes Turning off the Origin overlay may also help some users. May help with other Origin games that suffer from these issues.

Disabling Steam overlay
Turning off the Steam overlay may help some users. Open up Steam Right click on Fallen Order Click on Properties On the General tab, uncheck Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game

Missing voice-over audio (Steam)

Running directly with <path-to-game>\SwGame\Binaries\Win64\SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe results in missing voice-over audio when using non-English languages.

Force game localization via configuration override
Download the Star Wars Fallen Order Custom .INI Kit and follow usage instructions. Append the following lines to the downloaded DefaultEngine.ini. [Internationalization] +EnabledCultures="de-DE" Replace de-DE with desired language (de-DE, es-ES, es-MX, fr-FR, it-IT, ja-JP, ko, pl-PL, pt_BR, ru-RU, zh-Hans, zh-Hant).

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order.
vorpX		G3D, Z3D Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Other information

Extra settings

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX
Audio	Vorbis
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-3220 AMD FX-6100	Intel Core i7-6700K AMD Ryzen 7 1700
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	55 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 AMD Radeon HD 7750 DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

A 64-bit operating system is required.