General information
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Availability
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
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Premium Pass |
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Blooming of Forget-me-not |
First expansion. Part of the Premium Pass. |
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Blooming of Matricaria |
Second expansion. Part of the Premium Pass. |
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Warmaid Outfit |
Only available on the Bandai Namco website. |
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Design Contest Costumes |
Only available as part of the Month 1 Edition. |
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Ancient Apostles Part I: The Reaper of the Woods |
Free story content added in patch 1.20 |
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Ancient Apostles Part II: The Knight of Contradictions |
Free story content added in patch 1.30 |
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Ancient Apostles Part III: The Bruised King |
Free story content added in patch 1.40 |
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Ancient Apostles Part IV: The Blue-Eyed Demon |
Free story content added in patch 1.50 |
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Microtransactions
Type |
Notes |
Cosmetic
| Skins, Emotes and Weapon skins for the characters. |
Currency
| SAO coins. |
Loot box
| "Cube" System working as a Loot box. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Input
Gamepad settings (DualShock 4 layout)
Gamepad settings
(Xbox One layout)
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Sliders for BGM, SFX, Event Voice, Voice SFX and Movie Volume as well as Environmental Sounds. Event BGM Volume is limited to three presets that cannot be adjusted. |
Surround sound |
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Stereo only.[6] |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Simplified Chinese |
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Traditional Chinese |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Korean |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Russian |
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Spanish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Issues unresolved
Misaligned bloom effect
The bloom effect may cause a misaligned phantom green residual image of the bloom effect. No known solution is available.[7]
LOD glitches
There are some problems around how LOD works in the game like close pop in and the reduced draw distance when entering battles. The main glitch is the model change and/or blinking out of existence when approaching leaving a different model in place. The problem will get aditional glitches if played above 30 fps. No known solution is available.[8]
Issues resolved
Stutter and frame drops related to Easy Anti-Cheat
There are two ways to avoid this problem:
Block Easy Anti Cheat from starting with the game[9]
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- Go into the
<path-to-game> folder. Change the "sao_al.exe" name to "Launch_Game.exe".
- The 1.21 update added an opt out menu before starting the game on Steam.
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Keep EAC from using too much resourse[10]
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- After the game start set thread affinity of easyanticheat process to just one core.
- This could cause the game to soft lock if screen mode is set to Fullscreen.
- This won't change online capability.
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
11 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Physics |
Havok |
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Audio |
Criware |
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Cutscenes |
Criware |
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Multiplayer |
Steamworks |
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Anti-cheat |
Easy Anti-Cheat |
Can be disabled by changing the game's .exe name. Update 1.21 added the option on Steam to start the game without EAC at the cost of online functionality. |
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
10 | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core i7-4790
| Intel Core i7-9700 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
System memory (RAM) |
8 GB |
16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
45 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7950 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Radeon RX Vega 56 8 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-07-16
- Using Special K and its thread widget reveals a bunch of PhyreEngineWorkerThread threads being used.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-07-10
- Tested at 5760x1080 custom resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-07-10
- Tested at 2560x1080 custom resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-07-10
- Tested at 3840x2060 custom resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:Fayaine on 2020-07-10
- Tested with a custom 1080p resolution with 50 Hz. Borderless windowed does Vsync correctly to the set refresh rate.
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2020-07-10
- Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.
- ↑ Verified by User:Tamodolo on 2020-07-11
- Tested in native 1440p resolution.
- ↑ Post about the LOD problem in the game - last accessed on 2021-04-08
- ↑ Verified by User:Tamodolo on 2020-07-11
- Changed the name of the actual Launch_Game.exe to Launch_Game1.exe. This is enough for keeping it from start.
- ↑ Verified by User:Tamodolo on 2020-07-11
- This solution can still cause some fps drops but is fairly better than doing nothing.