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Precursors

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Precursors
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Developers
Deep Shadows
Publishers
GFI
Engines
Vital Engine 3
Release dates
Windows December 4, 2009
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres FPS, RPG
Vehicles Space flight
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
Series Xenus
Precursors on HowLongToBeat
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Precursors on MobyGames
Precursors on Wikipedia
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Xenus
Boiling Point: Road to Hell 2005
Xenus II: White Gold 2008
Precursors 2009

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 StarForce 5 DRM
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
Requires online activation
 StarForce 5 DRM - [1]
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches are available.

Mods

For additional, nonessential mods, see Additional mods.

The Precursors Unofficial Patch 2.1

An unofficial update that fixes many bugs.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/547930/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/547930/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No fps limit

Input

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.
In-game settings.
In-game settings.

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

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output. Requires DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
No EAX reverb; supports DirectSound3D calls for binaural HRTF mixing.[2]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2 Vista, 7, 8, 10, 2000 SP4
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon XP 3 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/AMD Athlon X2 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6600 GS
AMD Radeon 9600 		Nvidia GeForce 8800
AMD Radeon X1800


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>/547930/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (547930) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References