State of Decay

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State of Decay
State of Decay - cover.jpg
Developers
Publishers
Engines
Release dates
Windows
November 5, 2013
State of Decay at Steam Charts
State of Decay at SteamDB
 State of Decay at Wikipedia

General information

Information Known issues
More information Official forum
More information Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
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Information All versions require Steam.

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Fix Make empty video files[1]

  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Game\libs\ui - if the folders beyond Game do not exist then create them.
  2. Create two new empty files, one labeled intromovies.usm and another intromovies_noesrb.usm

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <path-to-game>\Engine\config.pak
Information config.pak contains multiple configuration files; see Extract config

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\241540\local

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible

Video settings[edit]

Graphical settings.
Graphics option Option Notes
Widescreen resolution Native See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor Native
Field of view (FOV) Impossible
Windowed Native Press Alt+↵ Enter to toggle windowed mode.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Hackable Switch to windowed mode then use one of the borderless fullscreen windowed methods. Tested using Windowed Borderless Gaming.[2]
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Impossible Can be forced through video driver.
Anti-aliasing (AA) Impossible See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
High frame rate Native No frame rate or refresh rate cap.
Information Graphics settings are limited to presets (Min, Medium, Maximum, and Ultra).

Anti-aliasing (AA)[edit]

Fix SGSSAA

  1. Open State of Decay driver profile via NVIDIA Inspector.
  2. Change Antialiasing compatibility to 0x000012C1[3]
  3. Change Antialiasing - Mode to Override any application setting
  4. Change Antialiasing - Setting to 4x [4x Multisampling] or 8xQ [8x Multisampling]
  5. Change Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling to 4x Sparse Grid Supersampling or 8x Sparse Grid Supersampling
  6. Apply changes.
Information This method is very performance demanding and may decrease your general performance.

Fix FXAA

Fix SMAA

Widescreen resolution[edit]

Fix Instructions[4]

  1. Right-click on the game in your Steam library and select Properties.
  2. Click Set Launch Options.. then add: -fullscreen and click OK.

Notes

Information It will set the game to use whatever the desktop resolution is set to.

Fix Instructions[1]

  1. Follow the instructions to Extract data and Extract gamedata otherwise this will not work.
  2. Go to the installation folder.
  3. Create a new file called user.cfg and open it with your text editor of choice.
  4. At the top of the file add and change to your desired resolution: 
r_Fullscreen=1
r_Width=800
r_Height=600

Notes

Information This method will allow you to manually select whichever resolution you desire.

Input settings[edit]

Game settings.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Impossible
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native
Controller
Controller support Native
Full controller support Native
Controller remapping Impossible
Controller Y-axis inversion Native

Audio settings[edit]

Sound settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native
Surround sound Native
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Native

Other information[edit]

Extract data[edit]

Fix Instructions[1]

  1. Download SoDET.
  2. Save the file to your desktop and run the application SoDET.exe

Extract gamedata[edit]

Information Extracting gamedata.pak will enable you to modify key bindings and other settings.

Fix Instructions

  1. Click Open Pak and select gamedata.pak located in <path-to-game>\Game\
  2. Move the extracted folders entities, fonts, languages, libs, and scripts to the Game folder.

Extract config[edit]

Information Extracting config.pak will enable you to modify various configuration settings.

Fix Instructions

  1. Click Open Pak and select config.pak located in <path-to-game>\Engine\
  2. Move the extracted folder config to the Engine folder.
  3. Go to config and rename console.cfg to system.cfg

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3 7
Processor (CPU) Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz (E6600) or Athlon X64 3400 Intel Core i5 series or equivalent
System memory (RAM)
2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
3 GB
Video card (GPU) Radeon HD 2600 XT
GeForce 9600 GSO
Intel HD 3000
DirectX 9.0c compatible 		Radeon HD 4750
GeForce GT 240
Intel HD 4000

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 How To: Change your keybindings and other graphical settings - Official forum
  2. ↑ Tested by Pridit
  3. ↑ Guru3D.com Forums - View Single Post - NVidia Anti-Aliasing Guide (updated)
  4. ↑ Use -fullscreen for 2560x1440, 3840x2160, all "unsupported" resolutions - Steam Community Discussions