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NieR: Automata

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NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata cover
Developers
Platinum Games
Publishers
Square Enix
Engines
Platinum Engine
Release dates
Windows March 17, 2017
NieR: Automata on Wikipedia

Key points

Controller is recommended over keyboard and mouse.[1]
Fullscreen mode is stretched from a lower resolution (unless fixed by using FAR).[2]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Requires online activation
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
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Eastern Europe: Steam key is obtained in Redeem.exe which checks CD-key and DVD authenticity.[3]
Windows
Publisher website
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EU
Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[4]

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Cardboard Pod Skin Part of the Day One Edition.
Windows
Grimoire Weiss Pod Part of the Day One Edition.
Windows
Machine Mask Accessory Part of the Day One Edition.
Windows
Retro Grey Pod Skin Part of the Day One Edition.
Windows
Retro Red Pod Skin Part of the Day One Edition.
Windows
Valve Character Accessory Granted to early purchasers. This promotion ended 16:00 GMT 24th March 2017.
Windows
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Windows

Version differences

NieR: Automata Day One Edition

A timed limited edition that included additional bonus digital content (cosmetics only). This promotion ended 16:00 GMT 12th May 2017.

Essential improvements

FAR

Adds performance and visual enhancements (e.g. fixed bloom scaling), and other PC-specific features
Other third-party injection/overlay tools might interfere with this mod.[5]
Changelog
Source code
Source code (Special K)
Instructions
Instructions
Instructions

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/524220/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/524220/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Syncs settings across PCs as well, including video settings.

Video settings

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.
Camera settings.
Camera settings.

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Borderless fullscreen windowed

Instructions

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Ambient Occlusion (AO) also includes a separate post-processing anti-aliasing pass.[6]
Having the AA option enabled in conjunction with AO causes visual issues and the transition effect between LoD levels to be abrupt.[6][7]

High frame rate

Cutscenes and menus will still be limited to 30 or 60 FPS.
Breaks some parts of the game and can make it impossible to progress without disabling the framerate unlocker.[8]
May cause other physics bugs and/or unexpected behavior.
Instructions

Input settings

Controller rebinding.
Controller rebinding.
Keyboard rebinding.
Keyboard rebinding.
General settings.
General settings.
Language settings.
Language settings.

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DualShock 4 button prompts

Instructions

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
English subtitles are transcribed from the English audio. Expect differences if used in conjunction with Japanese audio.
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish

VR support

Issues unresolved

White screen crash (both AMD and NVIDIA)

Occasionally the game causes a driver crash/reset which it can not recover properly from.[9]
The game continues playing in the background so if you're in a save zone you can quick save your progress by clicking on Esc+ Enter+ Enter. You should hear a chime sound effect when the game have been saved successfully.
Terminate the game using either Alt+F4 or Alt+Tab followed by terminating it through the Task Manager in Windows.
A temporary fix for AMD is to downgrade the graphics drivers to 16.11.5.[10]
Nvidia users can mitigate the issue by setting in-game graphics options to low and disabling various features in Nvidia's Control Panel.[11]

Issues fixed

Crash on touch-capable systems

Instructions

Cutscenes stutter

Instructions

Game does not launch and only idle in the background

Occasionally the game doesn't fully launch and NieRAutomata.exe remains idle in the background of Windows without any activity.[12]
The cause seems to be due to the DRM of Steam.[13]
Instructions

Fullscreen is stretched from a lower resolution

Instructions

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Instructions

LOD popping

Instructions

Mouse cursor is visible when playing with a controller

Instructions

Save not working any longer

Instructions

SLI not working

Not officially supported by Platinum Games nor NVIDIA.
This is only required once, unless you perform a clean driver installation in the future.
Does not work in windowed mode (including borderless windowed mode).
Instructions
Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Wwise
Cutscenes Criware/Scaleform/Autodesk Does not include cutscene audio.
NieRepack can be used to customize the cutscenes in various ways.

Modifications

NieR:AutoModSave

Enables users to share save files.
Can be used to fix some corrupt save files that doesn't show up in-game any longer.
Source code

NieRepack

Tool used for customization of the pre-rendered cutscenes of the game.
Can be used to save space or improve aspect ratio or performance of the cutscenes.

NieR:Automata Free Camera

A simple tool that enables the free camera debug mode.

System requirements

64-bit OS required.
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-2100
AMD A8-6500
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
AMD Radeon R9 270X
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible

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>/524220/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (524220) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References