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Layers of Fear 2

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Layers of Fear 2
Layers of Fear 2 cover
Developers
Bloober Team
Publishers
Gun Media
Engines
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows May 28, 2019
Reception
Metacritic 70
OpenCritic 70
IGDB 64
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure
Art styles Realistic
Themes Horror
Series Layers of Fear
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General information

Official FAQ
Official troubleshooting guide
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

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 launched directly from executable.[2]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Game data

In-game gameplay settings.
In-game gameplay settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\LOF2\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
%LOCALAPPDATA%\LOF2\Saved\SaveGames\<user-id>\PlayerProfile.sav
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1029890/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\LOF2\Saved\SaveGames\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1029890/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

In-game basic video settings
In-game basic video settings
In-game advanced video settings
In-game advanced video settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Supported.[3] FOV is Vert-.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Switch off Fullscreen and set monitor's native resolution.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA or TAA (Mislabeled as TXAA).[4]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Options of 30 FPS, 60 FPS, or Not Fixed which is a mislabeled 144 FPS limit.[5] Many of the engine configurations like FPS caps set through the options menu are forced many times during certain events (e.g. loading screens) changing them is only possible via reinputting them using Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker; for example, set FPS limit to 30 in-game and return to game, use "t.MaxFPS #" console command where # is the desired value and reuse it every time game forces the 30 FPS limit.[6]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

In-game Basic controls settings
In-game Basic controls settings
In-game controls settings
In-game controls settings
In-game controller binding menu
In-game controller binding menu

Audio

In-game audio settings
In-game audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Music, SFX, Voice Over
Surround sound
7.0 Surround
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Fan translation by AR Team, download.
French
German
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

Issues fixed

Game crashes during startup

See Bypass OpenSSL SHA bug on Intel 10th gen and later CPUs.[7]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-3470 3.2 GHz
AMD A8-7600 3.1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 5 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 14 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti
AMD Radeon R7 265
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 11.0 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.21.2.0[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/1029890/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1029890) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Mastan on 2021-12-04
  2. Verified by User:Future-proof on 2020-10-22
  3. Layers of Fear 2 - PC Ultra Quality (3440x1440) - last accessed on May 29, 2019
  4. Verified by User:Radmaxx on 2023-03-24
    AA options are standard Unreal Engine 4 functions. No MSAA utilized in the temporal solution.
  5. Verified by User:Radmaxx on 2023-03-24
    Options are t.MaxFPS console commands.
  6. Verified by User:Radmaxx on 2023-03-24
  7. Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-04-03