FTL: Faster Than Light

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FTL: Faster Than Light
FTL - Faster Than Light - cover.jpg
Developers
Release dates
Windows
September 14, 2012
OS X
September 14, 2012
Linux
September 14, 2012
FTL: Faster Than Light at Steam Charts
FTL: Faster Than Light at SteamDB
 FTL: Faster Than Light at Wikipedia

Key points

Advantage Mod support.

General information

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

Availability[edit]

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

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <path-to-game>\
OS X ~/Library/Application Support/FasterThanLight/
Linux ~/.local/share/FasterThanLight/
Information The file settings.ini contains all settings.
Advantage Save games are fully cross-platform.[1]
Advantage This game supports the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\FasterThanLight\
OS X ~/Library/Application Support/FasterThanLight/
Linux ~/.local/share/FasterThanLight/
Information The file prof.sav contains over-all game progress.
Information The file continue.sav is only generated when pressing 'Save & Quit'.

Quicksaving[edit]

Information 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[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Native Not on Linux
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

General settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Native WSGF WS Silver.svg
Multi-monitor Impossible WSGF MM Silver.svg
Ultra-widescreen Impossible WSGF UW Silver.svg
Field of view (FOV) Not applicable
Windowed Native
Borderless fullscreen windowed Hackable See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Not applicable
Anti-aliasing (AA) Impossible
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
High frame rate Native Disable Frame Limit in-game.
Color blind mode Native

Borderless fullscreen windowed[edit]

  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit settings.ini.
  3. Set the required values: 
       fullscreen=0
       lastFullScreen=0
       manual=1
       screen_x=your x value screen resolution
       screen_y=your y value screen resolution
       windowed=1
       strethed=1

4. Use one of the available borderless fullscreen solutions. This was tested using the AutoHotkey method.

NOTE: Your x and y value resolution can be determined by finding your resolution, for example: 1920x1080, 1920=x value, 1080=y value

Input settings[edit]

Input settings.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Impossible
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Not applicable
Controller
Controller support Impossible

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native Music and sound.
Surround sound Not applicable
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Impossible

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native

Issues fixed[edit]

Frame rate is too high[edit]

Fix Enable vsync

Information Turning on Vsync in the general settings will prevent unnecessary frame renders.

Fix Enable frame rate cap

Information Turning on the frame rate cap in the general settings caps the frame rate at 60.

Performance issues[edit]

Fix Disable dynamic backgrounds

Advantage Switching off the dynamic background option can have a major, positive effect on performance.[2]
Information This setting doesn't have a considerable impact on the visual quality of the game.
  1. Set the Dynamic Backgrounds option in the general settings to Disabled.

Ubuntu logs off at game startup[edit]

Fix Delete libstdc++.so.6

Information The game path on Ubuntu is usually ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/FTL Faster Than Light/
Delete libstdc++.so.6 from <path-to-game>/data/amd64/lib and <path-to-game>/data/x86/lib[3]

Pixelated Graphics (Windows)[edit]

Information Problem associated with older laptop graphics cards.

Fix Run as Administrator

Information Right-click on the game executable and select 'Run as Administrator' to test this fix.
  1. Right click on FTLGame.exe and select Properties.
  2. Click the 'Compatibility' tab.
  3. Check 'Run this program as an administrator'.
  4. Click Apply.
  5. Click OK and run FTLGame.exe.

Fix Update graphics card drivers

Information Can usually be obtained from laptop manufacturer websites.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
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
Information Windows 8 is not officially supported.[4]
Information Some integrated Intel HD graphics cards have been known to work but are not officially supported.[4]
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

References

  1. ↑ Helpful Profile File Location Info! - FTLgame.com
  2. ↑ Primer comments on FTL release today: everything you need to know - /r/games
  3. ↑ Starting the game logs me out of my computer - Steam Community discussions
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Official FAQ