Child of Light

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		Ultimate Edition.
Green Man Gaming
Steam		Standard Edition.
Ubisoft Store		Standard Edition. Included with Ubisoft+.
GamersGate (unavailable)
(unavailable)
Humble Store (unavailable)

All versions require Ubisoft Connect DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Dark Aurora Pack	Cosmetic with battle buff
Faceted Oculi Pack	Boost
Light Aurora Pack	Cosmetic with battle buff
Rough Oculi Pack	Boost
Stardust Pack	Boost
The Golem's Plight Pack	Adds a side quest with an exclusive teammate
Tumbled Oculi Pack	Boost

All DLC is already included in Ultimate Edition.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Child of Light\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/256290/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Ubisoft Connect	<Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\609\
Windows	%PROGRAMDATA%\Orbit\611\^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/256290/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Use Flawless Widescreen.
Ultra-widescreen		Use Flawless Widescreen.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	Use Flawless Widescreen.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS	Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
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		No DirectInput support

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Controller+Mouse is supported, but Controller+Keyboard is not.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and SFX.
Surround sound		5.1 (side speakers)
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Indonesian				Fan translation by IGTC Team (Indonesia Game Translator Community)
Italian
Japanese
Polish				Fan translation by goliat and karhorus. Can be downloaded from here.
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian				Official translation by «Logrus». Steam only. Patch for other digital versions here.
Spanish
Latin American Spanish				Mexican Spanish. Latin American dialect also available.

Spanish (Latin America)

The game also includes a Latin American Spanish localization, although this is not exposed as an option.

Steam version: Enable Spanish (Latin America)^[1]
Exit Steam and ensure it is not running in the background. Go to <Steam-folder>\steamapps. Open `appmanifest_256290.acf`. Change the language to `latamspanish`: "UserConfig" { "language" "latamspanish" } Save and close the file. Start Steam and launch the game. It will now run in the Latin American Spanish localization.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Co-op
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

"Your CPU is Outdated" error

The game checks for some SSE4 instructions and if it fails, it shows an error message and refuses to run. The game doesn't use those instructions beyond that test, so bypassing is quite safe.

Bypass CPU check^{[citation needed]}
Use Child of Light no-SSE4 Loader.

Infinite loading screen upon the game start without having to full system cap CPU thread count

On a system with more than 16 processing CPU threads system to run game 1-time configuration and no full system cap^[2]

From the above guide and comments, I was able to fix the game crash after some trial-and-error. I have a new hybrid-core 12th gen cpu so I also set the "ProcessorCountLieForHybridCPU" to 16.

For the tool: Search the web for adk-install (direct links might give old versions), look for "Download and install the Windows ADK", select the correct version for your operating system (Windows 10/11), ignore the PE download. Run the program and ONLY install the application compatibility toolkit.

To apply the fix:

Open the new app "Compatibility Administrator (32-bit)"
Right-click the current database under "Custom Databases" and rename it to something like "Game compatibility fixes"
With that database highlighted, click "Fix"
Fill in the fields of name and vendor (not important if incorrect), and then browse for the game
Click Next twice (ignore the first Compatibility Modes screen)
Scroll down and click the checkbox next to ProcessorCountLie
Click Parameters while ProcessorCountLie is highlighted
enter 16 into the "Command Line" field and click OK

- Repeat the above 2 steps for ProcessorCountLieForHybridCPU if you have different types of processor cores (like Intel's E and P cores on 12th gen processors)

Click Next
Click Finish (optionally click "Auto-Generate" first.. it adds uplay_r1_loader.dll to it.. not sure if that makes a difference)

(*If any mistakes were made, simply go back to the entry under Applications for Child of Light, right-click ChildOfLight.exe and "Edit application fix") - SAVE the database - either using the Max Payne guide's suggestions, or just save it as whatever and name it whatever you like. - Right-click the database you renamed earlier, and click INSTALL

Now the game should run.

As noted in the guide, the compatibility layer will be in the registry at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Custom

NOTE: An expanded explanation for dumbs for this operation can be found here^[3].

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Vista SP2	7 SP1, 8, 8.1
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHz AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.8 GHz	Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66 GHz AMD Athlon II X4 620 2.6 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 10 compatible Shader model 4.0 support	Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 ATI Radeon HD 4870
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible

Supported ATI Radeon chipsets: HD 2900 XT/HD 3000/HD 4000/HD 5000/HD 6000/HD 7000/R7/R9 series.

Supported Nvidia GeForce chipsets: 8800 GT/9/200/400/500/600/700 series.

Laptop versions of these cards are not officially supported.

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>/256290/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (256290) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

↑ Steam Community - Kaldaien is it possible to force a language using a mod, skipping the language set in steam? - last accessed on 2018-02-10
↑ Game Crashing on startup - last accessed on 2022-08-15
↑ How to run The Technomancer/Child of Light with higher than supported multicore CPUs - last accessed on 2023-03-25

[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>/256290/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (256290) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[gamedir-2] When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[3] Steam Community - Kaldaien is it possible to force a language using a mod, skipping the language set in steam? - last accessed on 2018-02-10

[4] Game Crashing on startup - last accessed on 2022-08-15

[5] How to run The Technomancer/Child of Light with higher than supported multicore CPUs - last accessed on 2023-03-25

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Developers

	Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Engines
	UbiArt Framework
Release dates
Windows	April 30, 2014
Reception
Metacritic	77
OpenCritic	83
IGDB	88
Taxonomy
Monetization	DLC
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives	Side view, Scrolling
Genres	Platform, RPG
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Fantasy