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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
XCOM: Enemy Unknown cover
Developers
Firaxis Games
Publishers
2K Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows October 9, 2012
macOS (OS X) April 25, 2013
Linux June 19, 2014
XCOM: Enemy Unknown on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
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Key points

Linux version is only available in 64-bit.
The game suffers from an abundance of bugs in its current state. Some bugs are game-breaking.[1]

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums
Steam Users' Forums for game series
Official Forum - not PC-specific.
PC Report: XCOM: Enemy Unknown on Linux.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Amazon.com
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Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Green Man Gaming
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GamersGate
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Mac App Store
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OS X only.
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Steam
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All versions require Steam, except for OS X Mac App Store release.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions
Changing the setting bForceNoMovies to TRUE will not work because the game will fail to load anything past the main menu. This problem does not exist in Enemy Within.

Turn off multiplayer chat

Instructions

Enable armor tint options

Instructions

Game data

Configuration files location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/200510/pfx/[Note 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/200510/pfx/[Note 1]
Having too many savegames can cause slowdowns, which can be fixed by regularly purging savegames.
Savegames will start appearing in the wrong order once there are more or around 100 savegames.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Display settings.
Video settings.

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Input settings

Input settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Korean
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Issues fixed

Save game slowdowns

Having a lot of savegames might cause the game to momentarily freeze while loading the "Save Game" screen.
Instructions

Windows

Game appears to run in slow motion

Using Gigabyte's OC Guru overclocking tool can cause the game to appear to run in slow motion, then jump forward in time every few seconds
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
Windows XP is not supported, but the game can be made to run on it using this guide.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.8.5
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD HD4000
NVidia 9000 series
256 MB of VRAM
The OS X version is not supported on these graphics cards: ATI X1xxx series, ATI HD2xxx series, Intel GMA series, NVIDIA 7xxx series, NVIDIA 8xxx series. The following cards require you to have 8 GB of system RAM: NVIDIA 320M, NVIDIA 9400 and Intel HD3000.
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 16 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia 600 series
AMD 6000 series
Intel Iris Pro
512 MB of VRAM

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>/200510/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (200510) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References