Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Developers   Capybara Games

Release dates Windows April 16, 2012 OS X May 31, 2012 Linux May 31, 2012

Key points

Poor port from iOS^{[citation needed]}

General information

Official site

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Steam		Includes Soundtrack
Humble Store		Includes Soundtrack

Game data

Configuration file and save game data location

	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\capy\SwordAndSworcery\
OS X	~/Library/Application Support/capy/SwordAndSworcery/
Linux	~/.capy/SwordAndSworcery/
Steam	<Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/204060/local/

This game does not support the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

In-game options menu.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See Vertical sync (Vsync).
High frame rate		No frame rate or refresh rate cap.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Open the config.txt file. Enable Vsync be editing the line ENABLE_VSYNC

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Alternate Input Options

• Instead of using the mousewheel to zoom in and out, you can use the + and = keys on your keyboard.
• Instead of clicking on the shield and sword icons to use them, you can use the Z and X, or . and /, keys on your keyboard.
• You can pan the camera around using the arrow keys.

Issues fixed

Crash on launch

Also using multiple monitors can cause this.

Chang mipmapping in config.txt Open the config.txt file. Enable this change: "ENABLE_MIPMAPPING = false" This has reportedly worked for some users, but not for everyone.

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Auto configures up to 7.1 output
Subtitles		Most speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
Japanese

Issues unresolved

Alt+Tab causes Twitter login fail

Using Alt+Tab ↹ appears to cause loaded tweets to fail.

Non-US keyboard

Appears to be treating all international keyboards as US keyboards.

Black Backgrounds & Other Missing Graphics/Videos

May or may not be related to ATI Cards but the game does not display background graphics or intro video. The log lists various information, for example:

Couldn't find scenes/common/messagebox/positions.pnt

• Verifying steam download results in it attempting to fix but does nothing.
• Completely reinstalling after deleting local content does not fix.
• Latest video drivers does not fix.

Some users have had success fixing this by disabling the Catalyst A.I. in the AMD Control Center.

Black Screen Freeze

The game will sometimes freeze in the transition between areas and at the end of a section. ALT-tabbing out and back works between areas, but when stuck after the second level it can be stuck permanently.

Soundtrack

The Steam version comes with the games soundtrack in MP3 format (FLAC and others available here). This can be access by going to <path-to-game>\soundtrack.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium IV 2.8 GHz AMD Athlon 64 2800+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	256 MB of VRAM

OS X
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.5.8, 10.6.3
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 10.10
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM