Call of Cthulhu

Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet	1993
Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice	1995
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth	2006
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land	2012
Call of Cthulhu	2018

General information

Official forum

Call of Cthulhu - At Focus Home Interactive.

Call of Cthulhu - At Cyanide Studio.

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Publisher website
GamersGate

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam
Discord (unavailable)
Origin (unavailable)

Game data

In-game game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\CallOfCthulhu\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ %LOCALAPPDATA%\CallOfCthulhu\Saved\SaveGames\Configuration.sav
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/399810/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\CallOfCthulhu\Saved\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/399810/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Discord
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game graphics settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Vert- by default. FOV can be increased to compensate. Moving the FOV slider 9 notches to the right from the default center position gives the closest to a true Hor+ image.
4K Ultra HD		Cut-scenes are pre-rendered at 1920x1088.
Field of view (FOV)	FOV slider introduced in the first update.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Borderless windowed is the default fullscreen setting. See Exclusive fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Scales with texture quality preset.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	TAA, Low to Epic settings.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Exclusive fullscreen

Enable exclusive fullscreen^[1]

Use the -FULLSCREEN command line argument.
Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open Engine.ini.
Add the following to the end of the file and save it.

[SystemSettings]
r.FullScreenMode=0

Notes

The game will switch to exclusive fullscreen once the main menu has loaded.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Adjust AF samples^[1]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open Engine.ini.
Add the following to the end of the file and save it.

[SystemSettings]
r.MaxAnisotropy=16

Chromatic aberration

Disable chromatic aberration^[1]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open Engine.ini.
Add the following to the end of the file and save it.

[SystemSettings]
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0

Film grain

Disabling film grain also affects color grading.

Disable film grain^[1]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open Engine.ini.
Add the following to the end of the file and save it.

[SystemSettings]
r.Tonemapper.Quality=0

Crashes with Intel hybrid cores (12th and above)

Crashes with Intel hybrid cores (12th and above)^[2]

Apparently its the game not being compatible with modern intel i7 and i9 family of processors. OpenSSL has to be disabled for this game only as game should be patched to use Unreal Engine >= 4.22. As this will porbably will not be performed, use this fix.

Go to the base game folder (usually \SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Call of Cthulhu\).
Create new empty file CallOfCthulhu.bat (it can be created with Notepad).
Copy the following:

set OPENSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000
CallOfCthulhu.exe

Go to Steam launch parameters and enter using quotes (") and changing ..\ to the game's folder as above

"..\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Call of Cthulhu\CallOfCthulhu.bat" %command%

Note: Now, every time the game is launched a dos prompt should appear with the two lines being executed, and the game should then launch without crashing (and this way the env variable will be set only for the execution of this single game and not for the entire system).
Note: This will work unless additional parameters need to be passed to the batch. If necessary, the batch will have to be modified accordingly to receive and use additional parameters.

Input

In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Negative mouse acceleration present.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers
DualShock button prompts
Light bar support		Static blue.
Connection modes	V1, Wired

Generic/other controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Can be disabled.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

In-game remapping settings.
In-game controller layout overview.

Audio

In-game sound settings.

Subtitle example.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, voice and effects.
Surround sound		5.1 working, 7.1 unknown, cutscenes appear to be stereo
Subtitles		Speaker names are displayed.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic				Fan translation, download.
Simplified Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Call of Cthulhu (DX11).

Issues fixed

Cutscene Audio Too Quiet

Disable surround sound effects^[3]
Cutscenes appear to output in stereo exclusively, even though in-engine gameplay works with 5.1 surround, resulting in immensely quiet cutscenes even when audio options are turned up. Disabling any surround sound features is recommended. For example, switch the audio source in Windows from THX Spatial Audio to the generic speakers.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX
Audio	Wwise

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-3450 3.1 GHz AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz	Intel Core i7-3820 3.6 GHz AMD FX-8370 4.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	13 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon R9 390 4 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit system is required.

Notes

↑ Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.15^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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>/399810/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (399810) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Verified by User:Waschbär on 2019-11-02
↑ Verified by User:Coco-Ta on 2023-07-05
↑ Verified by User:Shooterboss on 2022-10-15

[2] Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.15^[1]

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 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>/399810/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (399810) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[Waschb.C3.A4r-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Verified by User:Waschbär on 2019-11-02

[4] Verified by User:Coco-Ta on 2023-07-05

[5] Verified by User:Shooterboss on 2022-10-15

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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Developers

	Cyanide Studio
Publishers
	Focus Home Interactive
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	October 30, 2018
Reception
Metacritic	67
OpenCritic	67
IGDB	65
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Genres	Action, Adventure
Themes	Interwar, Horror, Lovecraftian
Series	Call of Cthulhu