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FTL: Faster Than Light

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FTL: Faster Than Light
FTL: Faster Than Light cover
Developers
Subset Games
Release dates
Windows September 14, 2012
macOS (OS X) September 14, 2012
Linux September 14, 2012
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FTL: Faster Than Light on Wikipedia
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Key points

Mod support.

General information

Official forum
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
FTLWiki - PCGamingWiki's FTL subwiki
r/ftlgame - subreddit.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
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Amazon.com
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Humble Store
DRM-free
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GOG.com
DRM-free
 5 songs from the soundtrack, a mini-artbook, some wallpapers & avatars.
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Steam
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Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/212680/pfx/[Note 1]
The file settings.ini contains all settings.
Save games are fully cross-platform.[1]
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/212680/pfx/[Note 1]
The file prof.sav contains over-all game progress.
The file continue.sav is only generated when pressing 'Save & Quit'.

Quicksaving

It is possible to 'quicksave' by saving and quitting, and then making manual backup copies of the continue.sav file, and restoring them when one dies.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Not on Linux

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

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Borderless fullscreen windowed

Instructions

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Frame rate is too high

Instructions

Performance issues

Instructions

Ubuntu logs off at game startup

Instructions

Pixelated Graphics (Windows)

Problem associated with older laptop graphics cards.
Instructions

Game is permanently zoomed in and cannot be played

Problem associated with higher DPI settings.
  1. Right click on FTLGame.exe and select Properties.
  2. Click the 'Compatibility' tab.
  3. Check 'Disable display scaling on higher DPI settings'.
  4. Click Apply.
  5. Click OK and run FTLGame.exe.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 175 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.0 compatible
Some integrated Intel HD graphics cards have been known to work but are not officially supported.[2]
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 175 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.0 compatible
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 175 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL 2.0 compatible

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>/212680/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (212680) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References