Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Developers
	Warhorse Studios
Publishers
	Warhorse Studios
2018-2021	Deep Silver
2021-present	Prime Matter
Engines
	CryEngine (4th generation)
Release dates
Windows	February 13, 2018
Reception
Metacritic	76
OpenCritic	72
IGDB	74
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, RPG, Sandbox
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Europe, Historical, Medieval
Series	Kingdom Come

Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come: Deliverance	2018
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II	2024

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a singleplayer first-person action-RPG sandbox developed by Warhorse Studios, and published by Deep Silver.

The game was released on February 13, 2018, with an extensive day-one patch that required replacing almost all of the original game files.

Multiple DLC have been released since the game's launch, including the addition of modding support. A "Royal Edition" which includes the base game and all DLC was released in June 2019.

General information

Official forum

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Mods on Nexusmods

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Epic Games Store		Royal Edition also available.
GOG.com		Royal Edition also available.
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store		Royal Edition also available.
Microsoft Store		Royal Edition also available.
Steam		DRM-free when launched directly from an executable. Royal Edition also available.
Origin (unavailable)		Royal Edition was also available.

Version differences

The Royal Edition includes all released in-game DLC.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Treasures of the Past	Pre-order bonus, available for everyone since April 11, 2018.
From the Ashes
The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon
Band of Bastards
A Woman's Lot
HD Sound Pack	Free.
HD Texture Pack	Free.
HD Voice Pack - English	Free.
HD Voice Pack - French	Free.
HD Voice Pack - German	Free.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\user.cfg %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\kingdomcome\profiles\default\*.xml
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/379430/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\kingdomcome\saves\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/379430/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

In-game basic video settings.
HD textures can be enabled with a free DLC.

In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			Use Centered HUD.
Ultra-widescreen			See HUD Location Adjustment.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Up to 75°; for higher values see Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Amount of filtering applied based on texture level. AF Table
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Available settings: SMAA X1, SMAA 1TX, SMAA 2TX.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Can cause massive issues with cutscenes (both pre-rendered and in-engine rendered), if it's left enabled and the game is not running in borderless mode.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Some cutscenes are capped at 30 FPS unless fixed. Limiting the framerate with external tools (e.g. MSI Afterburner) will slow down fast travel on the world map as during this loading process the framerate is normally uncapped.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Default Anisotropic Filtering

In-game texture option	Anisotropic Filtering
Low	x2
Medium	x8
High	?
Very High	x16
Ultra	x16

Field of view (FOV)

Set FOV in console
Open the console (~). Enter cl_fov XX (replace XX with the FOV you want). Press ↵ Enter. Notes This can alternatively be set in your user.cfg file.

High frame rate

Change the frame rate cap
Open the console (~). Enter sys_MaxFPS XX (replace XX with the max FPS you want). Press ↵ Enter. Notes This can alternatively be set in your user.cfg file.

Global Illumination

Fix low quality global illumination
Edit <path-to-game>\user.cfg or create if it doesn't exist. Add e_svoTI_ResScaleBase=0 e_svoTI_LowSpecMode=3 e_svoTI_ConeMaxLength=16 e_svoTI_DiffuseConeWidth=32 Add to launch options: +exec user.cfg

Depth of field

Disable depth of field
Go to <path-to-game>\Engine\. Open engine.pak with 7-Zip or similar. If you get a "read-only" error when trying to edit the file, use Total Commander. Open the config\cvargroups folder. Open sys_spec_PostProcessing.cfg. Change r_DepthOfFIeld=2 to r_DepthOfFIeld=0.

HUD Location Adjustment

Center or adjust the HUD regardless of resolution

Navigate to the game install directory. Open HUD.xml, located within Data\GameData.pak\Libs\UI\UIElements. Use 7zip or similar to directly open pak files. Locate the "Constraints" tag, near the top, within the GFx tag. Replace the existing constraints section with the following, adjusted as needed. This is based on a monitor resolution of 3440x1440, and desired HUD resolution of 2560x1440 (centered 16:9): <Constraints> <Align mode="fixed"/> <Position top="0" left="440" width="2560" height="1440" /> </Constraints> To center the hud: set "left=#" where # is your screen resolution subtracted by the desired HUD resolution then halved (e.g. (3440 - 2560)/2) Save the XML and drop it back into the pak file. Notes These changes will also need to be applied to any patch files containing HUD.xml,which can be found within Data\patch pak files. This results in minor visual issues during dialogue (black bars are displayed, and grain-overlay does not fill screen).

Input

In-game input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		No acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Can only remap controllers via the Steam Controller settings. There is no obvious option with the GOG release.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Change "UI controls detection" to the primary input method to prevent changing button prompts.

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  General controls.

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  Movement controls.

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  Combat controls.

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  Inventory controls.

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  Other controls.

Audio

In-game volume settings.

In-game game settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		In-game music, sound, voice and cut-scene
Surround sound
Subtitles		Speaker names not displayed. Voice and text language can be set separately.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian

Files of languages you are not using, can be deleted under <path-to-game>\Localization and its subfolders - 12GB of disk space can be saved keeping only one main language voiceovers.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Kingdom Come: Deliverance - 3D-Vision Ready Fix V2.50.
vorpX		G3D, Z3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Devices
Tobii Eye Tracking		Supports: Clean UI, Extended View - Only Head Tracking, Interaction at Gaze, Target at Gaze.

Issues fixed

Cutscenes are capped at 30 FPS

FPS during some cutscenes are locked to 30. The cutscenes are in-engine, meaning they should go as high as your setup is set, or can render to.

Add a configuration file to unlock the FPS when in fullscreen mode
In-game, ensure the Fullscreen option is selected in the display settings. Exit the game. Make a new file called user.cfg in <path-to-game> and open it in a text editor. Add the following lines, where sys_MaxFPS is your maximum FPS, then save and close the file: r_Vsync = 0 sys_MaxFPS = 144 5. Add the command +exec user.cfg to your desktop shortcut in the Target section.

Blurry textures

The game takes a long time to load texture mipmaps leading to blurry textures especially on characters.

Increase the game mipmap LOD value to prevent the game from constantly reloading the mipmaps from the disk
Open the in-game console with ~ Type r_TexturesStreamingMipBias -3 Press ↵ Enter, then close the console with ~. Notes This workaround might cause a 2-4 FPS loss. You can also apply this fix by adding the above line to your user.cfg file, mentioned above.

The mipmaps of some roads textures are tied to the FOV.

Change the FOV to force crisp road textures[citation needed]
Open the in-game console with ~ Type cl_fov 90 Press ↵ Enter, then close the console with ~. Notes This workaround can cause some roads textures to shimmer. Changing the FOV to another value than 90 might cause even worse results. The FOV change might no be desirable for some. You can also apply this fix by adding the above line to your user.cfg file, mentioned above.

Constant freezes during gameplay

Download Battle Encoder Shirase
Run the program as admin Target the process “Kingdom Come” after launching the game, and set CPU to 1%.

Change Nvidia Control Panel Settings
Select “SLI and PhysX Configurations” (may just say PhysX for some of you) Select your GPU under the “PhysX Settings”

Memory allocation failed on 4GB RAM

The error always appears in the 1st return to Skalitz - save the game before digging (otherwise you will repeat the whole rainy section). The error usually disappears after the game restart.

Upgrade your RAM

Restart the game

Lower the level of details

Performance issues

Use the optimizing tool or one of the linked in its description (depending on your specs)

Set 60Hz refresh rate

Turn off G-Sync

Use DXVK

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	FMOD

Recommended texture setting based on VRAM

The following table covers what amount of VRAM each level of the texture setting is designed for. This table doesn't take into account VRAM used by geometry and shadows.

In-game Option	VRAM
Low	1 GB
Medium	1.5 GB
High	2 GB
Very High	3 GB
Ultra	6 GB

Console commands

The console is enabled by default, press ~ to open it.

See cryengine.com for a list of possible commands. Not all may work or be changeable however.

Command	Purpose
cl_fov	Modify field of view (FOV). Default 75.
e_TimeOfDay	View the current time of day.
g_showHUD	Toggles the HUD. Default 1.
e_ViewDistRatio	Changes the distance at which objects start to render. Default 500.
e_ViewDistRatioVegetation	Change the distance at which trees start to render. Default 500.
e_MergedMeshesInstanceDist	Changes the distance at which grass is animated. Default 20.
e_VolumetricFog	Enables volumetric fog permanently with varying intensity. Default 0.
p_gravity_z	Changes the intensity of gravity. Default -13.
r_Vsync	Toggles VSync. Default 1.
r_motionblur	Toggles motion blur. 1 is camera only (default) 2 is camera and objects
r_AntiAliasingMode	Toggles anti-aliasing. 1 SMAA 2 SMAA with temporal filtering 3 SMAA with temporal filtering and projection matrix jittering
r_ssdo	Toggles screen space ambient occlusion. Default 1.
r_TexMinAnisotropy	Sets minimum anisotropic filtering level. Depends on graphical setting. Usually 4, 8 or 16.
wh_pl_showfirecursor	Toggles reticule when aiming a bow. Default 0.
Save (YourChoiceOfFileNameHere)	Saves the game. NOTE: This can cause your game to crash and no save will be created.
sys_MaxFPS	Changes the FPS cap of the game. Default 60.
wh_ui_showCompass	Toggles the compass. Default 1.
wh_ui_showHealthBar	Toggles the health bar. Default 1.
wh_dlg_chatbubbles	Toggles dialogue bubbles. Default 1.
t_scale	Scales the game time. Default 1 (normal speed). Setting 0.5 results in half-speed, 0 is paused etc.
e_VolumetricFog	Toggles volumetric fog. Default 0.
r_Sharpening	Sharpens the image. Default 0.0 (Float value).
e_ShadowsMaxTexRes	Changes shadow resolution. Default 1024.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8, 8.1
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3 GHz AMD Phenom II X4 940	Intel Core i7-3770 3.4 GHz AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	70 GB	90 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580

A 64-bit operating system is required.

The game greatly benefits from being installed on an SSD. Otherwise RAM usage can be traded for caching on slower disks.