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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons cover
Developers
Starbreeze Studios
Publishers
505 Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows September 3, 2013
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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons on Wikipedia
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Key points

Controller is listed as required (and is recommended) but game supports keyboards with a high key rollover.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Origin
Origin
 Included with EA Play.
Can be played without Origin by directly starting the executable.
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\UnrealEngine3\P13\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/225080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/225080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Enabled, but nothing is ever synced.[1][2]

Video settings

Launcher settings.
Launcher settings.
Video settings.
Video settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

Modify config[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open P13Input.ini.
  3. Find [Engine.PlayerInput] and place the line Bindings=(Name="L",Command="fov 150") (adjust number for different FOV) and save.
  4. In-game, press L to adjust FOV.

High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open P13Engine.ini.
  3. Search and change bSmoothFrameRate to FALSE or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate value.
  4. Save file.
  5. Note that this can cause issues with cranks for elevators, prolonging the time you have to use it. Temporarily set it back to 60 FPS will fix this.
Using game launcher to change options resets changes made to config.
For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit config file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open P13Engine.ini.
  3. Find the line MaxAnisotropy
  4. Change value to desired level 2, 4, 8, or 16 and save the document.
Using game launcher to change options resets changes made to config.

Input settings

Key bindings.
Key bindings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State GG3D Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
Use Helix Mod: Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons.
TriDef 3D

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8600
AMD Radeon HD 2600
DirectX 9.0 compatible
Microsoft .NET 4 Framework and Visual C++ Redistributable 2010 are installed.

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>/225080/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (225080) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References