Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Developer(s)	Capybara Games Superbrothers Jim Guthrie
Publisher(s)	Capybara Games
First release date	Windows April 16, 2012 Linux, OS X May 31, 2012

Key points

Poor iOS port

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source(s)	Store unlock	Notes
Steam		Includes Soundtrack
Humble Store		Includes Soundtrack

Game data

Save game location

	Location
Steam	Steam\userdata\[user_id]\204060\local
Windows	%APPDATA%\capy\SwordAndSworcery
Mac	~/Library/Application Support/capy/SwordAndSworcery
Linux	~/.capy/SwordAndSworcery

This game does not support XDG on Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

General settings.

Graphics option	Native	Notes
Widescreen resolution		WSGF report
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See Vertical sync (Vsync).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

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

Input settings

Input Settings	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
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 and Fixes

Crash On Startup

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

Issues unresolved

Alt+Tab causes Twitter login fail

Alt tabbing 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 steamapps\common\superbrothers sword & sworcery ep\soundtrack.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP/Vista/7	XP/Vista/7
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon 64 2800+ @ 1.8 Ghz Intel Pentium IV @ 2.8 Ghz	AMD Athlon 64 2800+ @ 1.8 Ghz Intel Pentium IV @ 2.8 Ghz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Graphics Card w/ 128 MB of RAM	Graphics Card w/ 256 MB of RAM
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB	500 MB

Mac
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.5.8, 10.6.3	10.5.8, 10.6.3
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 GHz	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	Graphics Card w/ 128 MB of RAM	Graphics Card w/ 128 MB of RAM
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB	500 MB

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