Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Developers
	MercurySteam
	Kojima Productions
Windows	Climax Studios
Publishers
	Konami
Engines
	Mercury Engine
Release dates
Windows	August 27, 2013
Reception
Metacritic	81
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Series	Castlevania

Castlevania
Castlevania	1990
Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra	2002
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow	2013
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2	2014
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate HD	2014
Castlevania Anniversary Collection	2019
Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls	2021
Castlevania Advance Collection	2021

Key points

Includes all the DLCs released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Does not include foliage animation and the Solid Snake outfit from the console versions.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

All versions require Steam DRM.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files
Go to <path-to-game>\bik\. Delete or rename 0F3E1581650A393C.bik, 5D92185F11FF78C6.bik, 840AF5545E1B3717.bik and D26AAFE1AA7385A4.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\bin\Profile\Saves\Castlevania.cfg
Steam	<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\234080\remote\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/234080/pfx/

Configuration file is encrypted.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\bin\Profile\Saves\Castlevania.profile
Steam	<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\234080\remote\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/234080/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud		Approx. 5 MB available.

Video

In-game general video settings.

In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			See Ultra-widescreen Fix
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Can be stretched to any windowed resolution.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use DxWnd.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16 samples.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA. For others, see Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

There is an In-Game AA option (FXAA).

Other AA Methods[citation needed]
See guides for downsampling method for AMD cards or Nvidia cards. Downsampling can be combined with other methods of AA of your choosing. Such as in game AA 2x2 downsampling+In Game AA Follow guide for driver-specific solution on Nvidia cards. Additional info with screens can be found at Guru3D forums.

Ultra-widescreen Fix

Game executable needs to be de-obfuscated using Steamless before applying the fix.

Patch the game executable
Open CastlevaniaLoSUE.exe in a hex editor. Replace only the very first instance of 39 8E E3 3F (likely somewhere around offset 0x8821DC) with the hex value adequate for your aspect ratio. Save and exit.

Supersampling/DSR

Higher than native resolutions cause crashes and white screen
Game has trouble displaying resolutions higher than desktop one, such as DSR, often resulting in glitched white screen. Set your desired DSR resolution as desktop resolution globally to bypass this problem.

Input

Keyboard rebinding.

Controller buttons.

If controller is present game changes prompts to 360 buttons and disables key rebinding.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Possible to rebind to mouse and its extra buttons as well.
Mouse acceleration		Mouse movement not used at all.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		XInput controllers only.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

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

Additional information
Button prompts		For DualShock button prompts use the Dualshock - PlayStation Buttons
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Voice, effects and music.
Surround sound		Auto configures up to 7.1 output
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian				Fan translation, download.
Italian
Japanese				Use this mod. Ported from the Japanese console version. Because the Reverie and Resurrection DLCs were never released in Japan, there is no Japanese audio available for them and as such they remain in English.
Polish				Fan translation, download.
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian				Fan translation, download interface and subtitles, download audio.
Spanish
Turkish				Fan translation, download from Official Site or Direct Link

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Castlevania Lords of Shadow Ultimate Edition - 3D Vision Fix.
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues unresolved

Black/white screen at 30 Hz

The game doesn't seem to support a 30 Hz refresh rate. Screen simply turns black or white, while still playing the audio in the background.^{[citation needed]}

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3	7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz	Quad Core
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	15 GB
Video card (GPU)	512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible	1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible
Other	Broadband Internet connection