The King of Fighters XIII

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The King of Fighters XIII
The King of Fighters XIII header.jpg
Developers
Release dates
Windows
September 13, 2013
The King of Fighters XIII at WineHQ
The King of Fighters XIII at Steam Charts
The King of Fighters XIII at SteamDB
 The King of Fighters XIII at Wikipedia
The King of Fighters
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The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match 2014

General information

More information Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Information All versions require Steam.

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Information The intro logos will still appear.

Fix Delete/rename opening.wmv

  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Go into video
  3. Delete/rename opening.wmv.

Enable Aero features[edit]

Information This game by default disables Aero features while playing.

Fix -a

  1. Right-click on the game in your Steam library and select Properties.
  2. Select Set Launch Options and enter: -a.
  3. Press OK and launch the game.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Steam <Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/222940/remote/kofxiii/

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Native

Video settings[edit]

Graphics options.
Graphics option Option Notes
Widescreen resolution Native Multiple resolution options available, however games assets are done for 1280x720.
Multi-monitor Unknown
4K Ultra HD Impossible Maximum resolution is 2560x1440.
Field of view (FOV) Not applicable
Windowed Native In-game setting or using -w parameter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Native
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Not applicable
Anti-aliasing (AA) Impossible
Vertical sync (Vsync) Impossible Always enabled.
High frame rate Impossible Game speed bound to frame rate. Cap frame rate to 60 FPS.

Input settings[edit]

Key rebinding.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Impossible Mouse not used at all.
Mouse input in menus Impossible
Mouse Y-axis inversion Impossible
Controller
Controller support Native
Full controller support Native
Controller remapping Native
Controller Y-axis inversion Native Via key rebinding.

Audio settings[edit]

Language and rumble under system options.
Sound options.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native Music, ambience, voice, effects and voice.
Surround sound Impossible
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Impossible

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Impossible Native
French Native Impossible Native
Italian Native Impossible Native
German Native Impossible Native
Spanish Native Impossible Native
Japanese Native Native Native
Korean Native Impossible Native
Simplified Chinese Native Impossible Native
Traditional Chinese Native Impossible Native

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play Native 2 2 controllers or 1 controller vs keyboard
LAN play Impossible
Online play Native 2 Custom and ranked modes. 4 latency levels to choose, from Bad ("lvl 1") to Best ("lvl 4") ping.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking Native Ranked Mode
Peer-to-peer Native
Dedicated Impossible
Direct IP Unknown

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP (outbound) 27014 to 27050
UDP (outbound) 27000 to 27030, 4379 to 4380 and 3478 to 3478

Issues fixed[edit]

Graphical artifacts/glitches[edit]

Information This issue only appears with AMD Radeon cards, updating to the latest driver might fix it.[1]

Game runs too fast[edit]

Information Game is designed to run with 60 Hz monitor running 60 FPS with vsync. With higher refresh rates this means game will run faster.
Advantage Sometimes simply playing with fullscreen mode fixes the issue.[2]
Information Either cap frame rate to 60 FPS externally or use games internal capper.

Fix Activate cap with launch parameter

  1. Right click on the game in the Steam Library to open the context menu, and select "Properties".
  2. Click on the "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS..." button.
  3. Type -r in the text field and click "OK".

FPS issues/slow gameplay[edit]

  • Using the "Fixed" frame rate method will activate frame skips which will allow the game to run at regular speed. Online play is always rendered using the Fixed frame rate method.[2]
  • Setting backgrounds to "Static" will drastically reduce processing, thus increasing FPS.[2]
  • Try running the game in windowed mode.[2]

Fix Launch option

  1. Right click on the game in the Steam Library to open the context menu, and select "Properties".
  2. Click on the "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS..." button.
  3. Type -w in the text field and click "OK".

Game crash after intro logos[edit]

Information Official Microsoft Windows Media Player codecs are required to run the videos in KOFXIIISE.

Fix Enable/install Windows Media Player

  1. Windows XP or N/KN versions: install Windows Media Player.
  2. Relaunch the game. If problems persist, ensure Windows Media Player is enabled:
    • Vista and newer: open the Start screen/Start menu, type OptionalFeatures.exe and press ↵ Enter.
    • Windows XP: press ⊞ Win+R, type appwiz.cpl and press ↵ Enter, choose Add/Remove Windows Components.
  3. If problems persist, try the -v method below.

Fix Disable hardware acceleration for WMV files

Information This may cause performance issues when watching WMV videos
  1. Open Windows Media Player
  2. In the Tools menu, select Options (if you don't see the menu bar, press Alt and select the Tools menu in the menu that appears)
  3. Select the Performance tab
  4. Untick Turn on DirectX Video Acceleration for WMV files
  5. Click Ok and close Windows Media Player

Fix -v launch parameter[2]

Information This will remove all videos from the game.
  1. Right click on the game in the Steam Library to open the context menu, and select "Properties".
  2. Click on the "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS..." button.
  3. Type -v in the text field and click "OK".

Notes

Information This will disable all videos from game.

Game hangs on initial loading screen[edit]

Fix Force windowed mode[2]

Notes

Information This workaround might not fix this problem, a future patch will address this issue.
  1. Right click on the game in the Steam Library to open the context menu, and select "Properties".
  2. Click on the "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS..." button.
  3. Type -w in the text field and click "OK".
  4. Start the game.
  5. Press [ALT]+[Enter] to switch back to exclusive full screen mode.

Game getting stuck in a loading loop[edit]

Fix Install on smaller partition[3]

This game has issues with hard drive partitions larger than 2 TB; install on a smaller partition.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz Intel Core i5 2300
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
5 GB
Video card (GPU) GeForce 9500 GT
256 MB of VRAM 		GeForce GTS 250
512 MB of VRAM

References

  1. ↑ Graphical artifacts? Please read this - Steam Community Discussion
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 FAQ/Known Issues - Steam Community Discussions
  3. ↑ FIX: Game getting stuck in a loading loop. :: THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION KOFXIII S.E. Support