A New Beginning

Key points

Re-released as A New Beginning: Final Cut, which added additional language support and bugfixes.

General information

Official website technical support forum - mostly in German and English language.

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GOG.com
Humble Store
Steam

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Daedalic Entertainment\
macOS (OS X)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/105000/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Daedalic Entertainment\
macOS (OS X)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/105000/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

General settings.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution		4:3 aspect ratio only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Borderless fullscreen windowed[edit]

Borderless fullscreen windowed can be partially achieved by first setting the game to windowed mode and then using Borderless Gaming. This will give the game a borderless windowed effect, however the game locks the mouse inside the game windows, and therefor not a very viable option.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Speech volume, sound volume, music volume.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Dutch
French
Russian
Spanish
Italian
Polish

Issues fixed[edit]

OS X cursor problems[edit]

Actions get 'stuck'.^[1]

Switch to windowed mode^[1]

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
64-bit executable

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz Single-core 1.8 GHz Dual-core
System memory (RAM)	1.5 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM OpenGL 2.0 compatible	ATI Radeon Nvidia GeForce

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Dual-core 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB

Notes

↑ ^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>/105000/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (105000) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Cursor related problems on OSX (10.8.2)? :: A New Beginning - Final Cut General Discussions

[Proton_path_note-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>/105000/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (105000) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[OS_X_cursor-2] 1.0 ^1.1 Cursor related problems on OSX (10.8.2)? :: A New Beginning - Final Cut General Discussions

[Note 1]

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Developers

	Daedalic Entertainment
Engines
	Visionaire
Release dates
Windows	October 8, 2010
macOS (OS X)	December 11, 2012