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Breath of Fire IV

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Breath of Fire IV
Breath of Fire IV cover
Developers
Capcom
Release dates
Windows 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Genres JRPG, RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Breath of Fire
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Breath of Fire IV on IGDB
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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 4 DRM
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]

Video

Resolution selection
Resolution selection

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
Capped at 31 FPS during gameplay. Menus run at 60 FPS.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Windowed

Use DxWnd
  1. Download and run DxWnd as administrator.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set name to Breath of Fire 4.
  4. Set path to <path-to-game>\BOF4.exe.
  5. Set Acquire admin caps.
  6. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  7. Click on DirectX tab, set DirectX7.
  8. Click on Mouse tab, set Cursor visibility to Hide.
  9. Click OK, then File and Save.
  10. Run the game directly from DxWnd.

Input

Game options
Game options
Controls remapping
Controls remapping

Quitting the game

Press F9.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
No voices
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
May cause crashes
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Japanese

Issues fixed

White screen

Disable visual themes
  1. Right-click the game executable (BOF4.exe) or desktop shortcut.
  2. Click Properties.
  3. Under the Compatibility tab, tick Disable visual themes.
  4. Click Apply and OK.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References