Heavy Rain
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Developers | |
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Quantic Dream | |
Windows | Virtuos[1] |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 24, 2019 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 75 |
OpenCritic | 73 |
IGDB | 80 |
Taxonomy | |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Cinematic camera |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Adventure, Quick time events |
Themes | Detective/mystery |
Key points
- Taxidermist DLC released for PlayStation 3 is not included in the PC version.[2]
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | A demo is also available. | |||
Steam | A demo is also available. |
- Requires Epic Games Launcher for installation, and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[3]
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Remove the video file[4] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\user_setting.ini[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/960910/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\HeavyRainNS\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/960910/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | Pillarboxed.[5] See Ultra-widescreen for a workaround. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Pillarboxed.[6] See Ultra-widescreen for a workaround. | ||
4K Ultra HD | [7] | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA or SMAA, and 2x, 4x, 8x MSAA. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Enabled by default. See Vertical sync (Vsync) to disable it. | ||
60 FPS | Limiter of 30 or 60 FPS. | ||
120+ FPS | See Vertical sync (Vsync). | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Ultra-widescreen
Use the Heavy Rain Ultrawide and Multimonitor patcher[8] |
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Vertical sync (Vsync)
Edit the config file[9] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Mouse buttons are not remappable.[10] | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | 0-30 in increments of 1. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | [11] | |
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Xbox button prompts | [11] | |
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Gyro supported. | |
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | Only standard blue in use. | |
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes | Wired, Wireless (DualShock 4 USB Wireless Adapter) |
Generic/other controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | [11] | |
Haptic feedback | Vibration toggle. | |
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M | [11] |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Voices, FX, Music. | |
Surround sound | 5.1 option.[12] | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | [13] | |||
Traditional Chinese | [13] | |||
Danish | [13] | |||
Dutch | [13] | |||
Finnish | [13] | |||
French | [13] | |||
German | [13] | |||
Italian | [13] | |||
Japanese | [13] | |||
Korean | [13] | |||
Norwegian | [13] | |||
Polish | [13] | |||
Portuguese | [13] | |||
Russian | [13] | |||
Spanish | [13] | |||
Swedish | [13] |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Heavy Rain - 3D-Vision-Ready-Fix - Losti - V1.2. |
Issues unresolved
Stuttering on surround sound system
Set system sound to stereo[14] |
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Stuttering on Creative sound cards
Disable the Creative card and use the integrated sound card (if present).[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | Havok | [15] |
Interface | Omegame Menus Master | [15] |
Cutscenes | Bink Video | [16] |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-4300 3 GHz | Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 39 GB[17] | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon R9 390 4 GB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/960910/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (960910) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-07-16
- Virtuos Ltd. appears under Heavy Rain PC edition at the ending credits.
- ↑ Heavy Rain PC Review - A new way to press for the same Jason - last accessed on 2019-06-27
- ↑ Denuvo Support Page
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-26
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-24
- Tested the release version at the custom resolution of 3840x1080.
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-24
- Ran the release version at 2560x1080.
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-24
- Tested the release version at the custom resolution of 3840x2160.
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-27
- Tested the 2560x1080 patcher.
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-24
- Editing the file as instructed resulted in over 170 FPS on my computer.
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-24
- Release version tested.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-24
- Tested with an Xbox 360 Razer Onza controller.
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-24
- The rear speakers were used.
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 Epic Games Store - Heavy Rain - last accessed on 2019-08-29
- "Languages Supported: English / French / German / Italian / Spanish / Dutch / Portuguese / Swedish / Danish / Norwegian / Finnish / Russian / Polish / Japanese / Korean / Traditional Chinese"
- ↑ Audio Causing Stuttering (PC) - last accessed on June 25, 2019
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Verified by User:Rose on 2019-07-16
- Part of the game ending credits.
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-24
- The installation folder contains bink2w64.dll
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2019-06-25
- The official system requirements lack HD information. The release version takes up around 38.1 GB on my hard drive.