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Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut

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Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut
Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut cover
Developers
Sucker Punch Productions
Windows Nixxes Software
Publishers
PlayStation PC
Release dates
Windows May 16, 2024
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Open world
Art styles Realistic
Themes Japan, Historical
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Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut is a singleplayer and multiplayer action game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment via its PlayStation PC brand.

The original game, Ghost of Tsushima, was released on PlayStation 4 on July 17, 2020. The Director's Cut enhanced re-release, which integrates the Iki Island expansion DLC into the game, was released on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on August 20, 2021. The Director's Cut version of the game was ported to PC by Nixxes Software and released on May 16, 2024.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
DRM-free when a shortcut is made to the executable with the -EpicPortal command line argument appended to the Target URL.
Windows
GamersGate
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Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Steam
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Windows
The in-game PlayStation overlay and the Legends cooperative mode require a PlayStation Network account[1]. The single player story campaign can be played entirely through without logging in[2].

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None


Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Rename or delete video files for intro videos.[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\movies\cutscene.
  2. Delete or rename splash_pc.webm.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sucker Punch Productions\Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
%APPDATA%\Sucker Punch Productions\Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2215430/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2215430/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Adjustable in -25/+25 range
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
16x
Anti-aliasing (AA)
SMAA, TAA, DLAA, FSR 3 Native, XeSS Native
High-fidelity upscaling
DLSS 3.7, FSR 3.0, XeSS 1.3
DLSS and FSR Frame Generation work with any upscaler, TAA or no AA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Max Luminance + Paper White sliders.
Ray tracing (RT)

Disable Async Compute

Requires Registry tweaking and having launched the game at least once.
Pascal and older GPUs are severely underutilized with Async Compute enabled. Disabling the setting leads to substantial performance improvements. [4]
  1. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Sucker Punch Productions\Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT\Graphics
  2. Double click on 'AsyncCompute' and set the value to '0'
  3. Exit Registry Editor

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
French
Finnish
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
4 Co-op
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types


Issues unresolved

Hangs on black screen with FSR Framegen enabled when using Steam Overlay.

May require an end task to exit game.
Disabling Steam overlay will fix this.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Wwise

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10 64-bit
Processor (CPU) Core i3-7100
Ryzen 3 1200
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 75 GB HDD (SSD recommended)
Video card (GPU) GTX 960
RX 5500 XT
4 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.
minimum specs are 720p 30fps.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut PC cross-play and system requirements revealed - last accessed on 2024-05-04
  2. Sucker Punch Productions on X - last accessed on 2024-05-05
  3. Verified by User:Andrewrcr on 2024-05-16
    Discovered by looking at the game directory and renaming video files.
  4. FPS difference on a GTX 1080 Ti with Async Compute enabled and disabled - last accessed on 2024-05-18