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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut

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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
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Developers
NeocoreGames
Release dates
Windows November 6, 2015
Reception
Metacritic 79
OpenCritic 70
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Multiplayer
Series The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut on IGDB
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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut 2015

Key points

Owners of the full Van Helsing trilogy can get this game for free.[1]
Wide variety of options including selecting between different DirectX versions and OpenGL for rendering.
High-resolution texture pack is available as a free DLC on Steam.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Complete series bundle.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Disables DLCs, achievement completion, and internet-hosted multiplayer servers when run outside of Steam (listings of player-hosted games are still available through Neocore servers).[2] Online functionality, including cloud saves, requires a Neocore account.[3]
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Rename/delete intro videos[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Videos\ENG
  2. Delete or rename the following files:
    • neocore_logo.ogg, neocore_logo.wmv, neocore_logo.webm, nvidia.ogg, nvidia.webm, nvidia.wmv

Notes:

Not all of the listed files may be present, in which case simply delete the ones that are.

Reduce Start Up Load Time

Delete unused language files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Strings
  2. Delete the folders for languages you don't plan on using:
    • e.g. If you use English, delete all folders except for eng
    • Be sure not to delete the file Languages.xml

1920x1080 or above Resolutions missing on Non 100% DPI Scaling on Windows 10 (125%,200% etc)

Set Scaling override
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\VanHelsing_x64.exe
  2. Go to compatibility "Change high DPI settings" > High DPI Scaling override
  3. Check box Override high DPI scaling behavior. "Scaling performed by": Select in drop box "Application"
  4. Do the same for VanHelsing_x64_win10.exe
  5. if above does not work try falling back to 100% display scaling.

Game data

Gameplay settings.
Gameplay settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NeoCore Games\Van Helsing Final Cut\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/400170/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\NeocoreGames\Van Helsing Final Cut\SaveGame\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/400170/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.
Advanced video settings.
Advanced video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Check this post
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
On/Off. Method not specified.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Can set a hard frame rate cap up to 60 FPS or none at all.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Input settings with controller enabled.
Input settings with controller enabled.
Input settings with controller disabled.
Input settings with controller disabled.
When removing controller with controller support enabled, the game requires one to be connected (top). If a controller is plugged in with controller support disabled or a new controller is detected a popup details that it won't be usable without restarting the game (bottom).
When removing controller with controller support enabled, the game requires one to be connected (top). If a controller is plugged in with controller support disabled or a new controller is detected a popup details that it won't be usable without restarting the game (bottom).
By default controller support is enabled if detected, and if enabled requires a connected controller, and won't support a different type of controller without a restart. When controller support enabled the mouse, cursor included, is disabled past the initial loading screen. Toggling controller support on/off in settings requires a restart.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Only available when controller is disabled.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Only available when controller is disabled.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
XInput only.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Fails to properly detect controller changes if done in the initial loading process.[4]
Haptic feedback
Adjustable (%).
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Finishes playing current audio buffer before muting.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game crashes on Windows 10

Disable 'Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service'[5]
  1. Press Enter+R and type in services.msc and click OK.
  2. Find Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service, right click it and click Properties.
  3. Set Startup type to Manual, click the Stop button and click Apply.

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  1. Blocking with Registry Edit (e.g. Parameter/TCIP) will crash the game. So allow registry edit and but block with Firewall.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Use Nucleus Co-op.
LAN play
4
Online play
4

VR support

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c, 11
OpenGL 3.3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Can run in 32-bit mode through settings.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800
ATI Radeon HD 4000
Intel HD Graphics 4000
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
Other Broadband Internet connection


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/400170/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (400170) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Redeem your Free Final Cut here! - Steam Community Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Ran without Steam warning - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Ran offline warning
  4. Verified by User:MetalPlateMage on 14 November 2015
  5. Fix random crashing in Windows 10 - Steam Guides - last accessed on May 2023