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The Surge

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The Surge
The Surge cover
Developers
Deck13 Interactive
Publishers
Focus Home Interactive
Engines
Fledge
Release dates
Windows May 16, 2017
Reception
Metacritic 72
OpenCritic 73
IGDB 72
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres ARPG
Art styles Realistic
Themes Post-apocalyptic
Series The Surge
The Surge on HowLongToBeat
The Surge on IGDB
The Surge on MobyGames
The Surge on Wikipedia
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The Surge 2 2019

General information

Official forums
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Epic Games Store
Epic Games Launcher
Augmented Edition also available.
Windows
GamersGate
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Augmented Edition also available.
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Augmented Edition also available.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Augmented Edition also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Augmented Edition also available.
Windows
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Windows
Steam
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Augmented Edition also available.
Windows
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
Windows
A demo is available (progress carries over to the full game).[1]

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
A Walk in the Park
Windows
The Good, the Bad and the Augmented
Windows
CREO Special Employee Kit
Windows
Fire & Ice Weapon Pack Free.
Windows
Cutting Edge Pack Free.
Windows

Game data

In-game gameplay settings.
In-game gameplay settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Surge\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/378540/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\378540\remote\
Microsoft Store %USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Surge\save\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/378540/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Origin
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

In-game display settings
In-game display settings
In-game graphics settings
In-game graphics settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Disable fullscreen and set the windowed resolution to match your desktop.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Scales with quality presets. See Anisotropic filtering (AF) for manual adjustment.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA, SMAA, SSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
1:1, 1:2, or Off
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Game might cap at lower frame rates in some scenarios. See Incorrect frame rate limit
High dynamic range display (HDR)
HDR support planned[2]

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit config file[3]
  1. Edit %USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Surge\settings.ini.
  2. Find a line quality_anisotropic_filtering = (add it if it doesn't exist).
  3. Set its value to either Off, Low, Medium, High or VeryHigh. e.g. quality_anisotropic_filtering = High

Input

In-game gamepad settings
In-game gamepad settings
In-game gamepad remapping menu
In-game gamepad remapping menu
In-game keyboard and mouse remapping menu
In-game keyboard and mouse remapping menu

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Stored in:
<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\378540\remote\bindings_mkb_custom.ini
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
There are two options that allow limb targeting to sync to axis inversion for both horizontal and vertical selection (suggest turning off for matching axis inversion).
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Stored in:
<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\378540\remote\bindingsPadCustom.ini
Controller sensitivity
Linked to 'Camera Sensitivity'.
Controller Y-axis inversion
See "Mouse Y-axis inversion".
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
if you have XInput and ds4 devices plugged in at the same time, the game will only poll XInput devices
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Button prompts
Input settings icon - Generic Controller.svg
You can choose input to be shown as Xbox, PS4, or Steam Controller. Default is Auto.
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

In-game audio settings
In-game audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Licensed BGM

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: The Surge.
vorpX
G3D, Z3D
Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Issues fixed

Incorrect frame rate limit

In some scenarios the game caps to a lower frame rate than it should.
Disable internal frame rate limiter[4]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open settings.ini.
  3. Change max_frame_rate = 120 to max_frame_rate = 0.

Notes

Some users may find the settings.ini file in the game's installation folder instead.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Shader Model support 5.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio FMOD

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) AMD FX-8320 3.5 GHz
Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 15 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon R7 360
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti
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>/378540/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (378540) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Play the Free Demo! - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: The Surge - last accessed on May 2023
  2. PC HDR? - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Verified by User:Virus_Shell on 2017-05-16
  4. Steam Community - last accessed on 9 June 2023