Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Developers
	Big Huge Games
	38 Studios
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
	38 Studios
Release dates
Windows	February 7, 2012

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Origin
Steam

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename reckoninglogotrain.bik
Go to <path-to-game>\content\data\bink\ Delete or rename reckoninglogotrain.bik

Disable the Battle Frenzy sound

If you play a warrior, the constant hissing sound of this permanent buff quickly gets annoying.

Delete/rename FX_Player_Battle_Frenzy.fsb[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\content\001\ Delete or rename FX_Player_Battle_Frenzy.fsb

Adjust Level of Detail

Adjust texture LOD[citation needed]
Download and install RadeonPro Create a RadeonPro profile for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Open the "Advanced" tab and check Texture LOD Set the slider to a value between -1 and -2 (recommended: -1)

Enable high quality anisotropic filtering for AMD Radeon graphics card users

Enable high quality anisotropic filtering[citation needed]
By default KOA:R uses low quality anisotropic filtering to give better performance. Download and install RadeonPro Create a RadeonPro profile for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Open the "Advanced" tab and check Texture LOD Set "Texture filtering quality" to high quality

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Reckoning\personal.ini
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/102500/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Reckoning
Steam	<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\102500\remote
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/102500/pfx/

Game profile names need to be identically named when transferring saves to different accounts or computers. If they are not, then you will need to rename the save file into one that has been 'recognised' by the game. This applies to transferring save data in any combination between computers, profiles, Steam and Origin accounts.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Origin		Syncs up to 1 GB of data online.
Steam Cloud		Syncs up to 1000 MB of data online.

Video settings

Field of view (FOV)

Change FOV with Widescreen Fixer[citation needed]

Launch Widescreen Fixer and open Kingdom of Amalur's plugin settings. Set desired field of view (recommended value: 60-70). Set a keybind for Widescreen Fixer. Launch the game. Press your FOV keybind before doing anything else. Your FOV will expand from a shoulder-cam to third person at the correct FOV. Should this greatly distort your image, simply reload the save and the FOV setting will take effect.

Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

Issues unresolved

Remap key bug

Mouse button binding causes problems.

Xbox One S Controller Bluetooth Stutter Bug

The Xbox One S Controller, when connected via Bluetooth, causes the game to severely stutter, leaving the game hardly playable. A workaround is to use the controller in wired mode.

Issues fixed

Crash after 10-15 minutes on Windows 10

Caused by a weird interaction between one version of XAudio2_7.dll and the on-screen keyboard service.

Check whether this is the cause with Windows Error Reporting[citation needed]
⊞ Win+R and type msinfo32 and ↵ Enter. In Software Environment\Windows Error Reporting look for entries with Reckoning.exe and check that the faulty module is XAudio2_7.dll

Stop the TabTip.exe process, also referred to as Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Helper, before launching the game[citation needed]

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More simply, just create a batch command to run the game[citation needed]
taskkill /f /im "tabtip.exe" start /d "<path-to-game>" Reckoning.exe Create the batch file above by replacing the <path-to-game> with the path to the installation folder. Save as a .cmd and launch it as an administrator. To simplify that, you can create a shortcut to the .cmd and choose Run as an administrator in the shortcut's advanced options.

Map movement to arrow keys

Map movement to arrow keys[citation needed]
Follow instructions here.

Black screen in demo with AMD GPU

The demo shows nothing but a black screen with AMD GPUs. This issue is not present in the final game.

Disable post-processing in the settings[citation needed]

Alternate demo fix[citation needed]
Open Catalyst Control Center Create an application profile for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Set multi-sampling anti-aliasing (MSAA) to 2x

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Mods

YSA Heartcore Mod

Greatly increases game difficulty, as vanilla can be too easy late-game. The changes are listed here.

Includes PDF game guides and developer interviews.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+	Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz AMD Phenom X4 2.6 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT ATI Radeon HD 3650 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support	Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 ATI Radeon HD 4850 1 GB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0c compatible