General information
- Port Report
- No option to disable (slight) mouse acceleration.
- Has PhysX effects enabled by default, heavily impacting performance. In order to get playable framerates, either disable PhysX Particles under the advanced graphics options, or dedicate a separate Nvidia GPU to Physx.[1]
- Official forums
- UFOpaedia - A huge wiki for the XCOM series
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
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Code Breakers |
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Hangar 6 R&D |
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Light Plasma Pistol |
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Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Graphics settings. Tesselation only shows with DX11 enabled, HUD size adjust and brightness available as separate menus.
Custom FOV values[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\XGame\Config\
- Open
XEngine.ini .
- Locate line
DefaultFOV=xxx in section [SystemSettings] .
- Change it to the desired FOV value.
- Aiming FOV cannot be changed and will always remain at 60°.
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Change frame rate smoothing[3]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
XEngine.ini .
- Search and change
bSmoothFrameRate to FALSE or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate value.
- Save file.
- For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.
- Changing value in game resets the changes.
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Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Master, SoundFX, Music and Voice Over. |
Surround sound |
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No setting available, support up to 5.1. |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Fan translation. |
Italian |
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Japanese |
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Korean |
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Russian |
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Spanish |
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VR support
Issues fixed
Low frame rate
Disable PhysX Particles, see Middleware below
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Disable "Screen space reflections"
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Set Ambient Occlusion to Medium instead of High
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Game won't start in DX11 mode
Blacklist EXE from Rivatuner Statistics Server
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- Open up Rivatuner, and on the bottom left select
Add
- Browse to
<path-to-game>\Binaries\Win32\ and select the TheBureau.exe
- On the top right of Rivatuner, under
Application detection level select None
Optionally, you can just close Rivatuner while playing.
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Large frame rate drop when aiming
Crashing during the first mission in the room with the plane suspended from the ceiling
Replace the game's version of PhysXCore.dll with a newer version
- Go in C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2\Display.PhysX.{xxxxx}\files\Engine\82D8704BAB07
- Copy the file called PhysXCore.dll
- Go inside the installation folder of the game on your PC - C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Bureau\Binaries\Win32
- Paste the PhysxCore.dll and replace the old one with the one that you got from the nvidia folder
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9, 11 |
Selectable when launching the game. Tessellation exclusive to DX11. |
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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macOS (OS X) | |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Physics |
PhysX |
Has Nvidia's proprietary PhysX effects enabled by default. In order to get playable framerates, either disable PhysX Particles under the advanced graphics options, or dedicate a separate Nvidia GPU to Physx.[4] The PhysX Cloth simulation effect does not decrease performance to the same extent. |
Audio |
Wwise |
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Interface |
Autodesk |
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Cutscenes |
Bink Video |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
Vista SP2 32-bit |
7 SP1 64-bit |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHz |
Quad Core |
System memory (RAM) |
2 GB |
4 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
12 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
ATI Radeon HD 3870 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT DirectX 9 compatible
| AMD Radeon HD 6950 Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 DirectX 11 compatible |
Sound (audio device) |
DirectX Compatible | |
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
Mountain Lion 10.7.5 or higher |
Lion 10.9 or higher |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core i series | |
System memory (RAM) |
4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
15 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
AMD Radeon HD 4870 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT Intel Iris Graphics
| AMD Radeon HD 5870 Nvidia GeForce GT 650M |
Notes
References