This page is for the original version. For the Special Edition, see Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition.
Key points
- A good port of the original console versions with plenty of graphical options and exclusive features, including a benchmark.
Devil May Cry 4 is a singleplayer action game developed and published by Capcom. It is part of the Devil May Cry series and chronologically takes place after the events of Devil May Cry 2 and five years before Devil May Cry 5.
It was released in North America on July 8, 2008, followed by releases in Australasia, Europe and Japan on July 10, July 11 and July 24 respectively.
It was later delisted from Steam on January 31, 2024.
General information
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source |
DRM |
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Keys |
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Retail |
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SecuROM DRM disc check. Russian release has 2 discs: one for installing the game itself and another for installing the Russian dub. |
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Steam (unavailable) |
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GamersGate (unavailable) |
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SecuROM PA DRM. |
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Origin (unavailable) |
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Demos
- A demo is available here.
Essential improvements
DMC4Hook
A mod which includes many quality of life improvements, gameplay additions, fully unlocked framerate and more.
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- Download dinput8.dll from this Github repository and place in the main game directory:.
- Open with delete key
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Faster Loading
A shader logging debug tool was left in the game files, causing the game to take significantly longer to load in DX9.
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- Delete shaderlog.slg from Devil May Cry 4\nativePC
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
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Native |
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Origin |
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OneDrive |
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Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. |
Steam Cloud |
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Video
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Two sliders for sound effects and music. |
Surround sound |
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Up to 5.1 output[2] |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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EAX support |
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Set Windows speaker config to Quadraphonic and use DSOAL.[3] |
Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Czech |
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Retail only. |
French |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Fan translation, download. |
Italian |
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Japanese |
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Audio is available in Japan region only. |
Polish |
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Retail only. |
Brazilian Portuguese |
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Fan translation, Download. |
Russian |
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Retail only. Patch for digital release here. |
Spanish |
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VR support
Issues fixed
Frequent crashes in DX10 mode
Copy old dxgi.dll and d3d10.dll files to the installation folder[4]
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- Search your C:\Windows\winsxs folder for dxgi.dll and d3d10.dll
- The correct dxgi.dll file was modified on 11/20/2010 or 11/21/2010 (depending on region) and is 496 KB.
- The correct d3d10.dll file was modified on 7/13/2009 or 7/14/2009 (depending on region) and is 0.98 MB.
- Copy both files to your DMC4 installation folder, where the .exe files are.
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Opaque Frost Ice
Ice effects from the Frost enemy will be completely opaque unless running on an Intel GPU.
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- Download this file
- Extract the contents into the root game directory
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9.0c, 10 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
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Windows |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
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Audio |
XAudio2 |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
XP SP2 |
Vista |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 4
| Intel Core 2 Duo |
System memory (RAM) |
512 MB |
1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
8 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce 6600 series DirectX 9 compatible
| Nvidia GeForce 8600 series |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References