Trying to play Dead Space 1 In the 2020?, read this

[LukeSpirit]

There's a lot of bugs whit new generation OS and Hardware.
here's a little guide to solve common errors. if you have more suggestions u can reply this topic.
1.- unistall virtual drivers, like vjoy, or virtual gamepads etc.
2.- turn off Vsync on game, but turn on Vsync on driver GPU. (why?, because you litteraly can pass trough the open doors, and the vsync fix this but the internal vsync of dead space reduce to 30fps and it's unplayable)
3.- caps framerate to 60, if you have a 75Hz or higher, like 144Hz in my case, the errors of point 2 will be happend
4.- there is a tool to fix the low sens of mouse of higher resolutions
there's a video + sound sttutering what i can't fix it and the game radmonly crashes sometimes. (it's not my pc, i7 and gtx 970 LOL)

[učo73]

I have GTX 1080 Ti an Dell S2419HGF 24" G-Sync 144Hz and game working perfect. No crashes.
Here is fix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2kY-l4IItA

[Wicked]

I have no problems with Win 10. Sure I use the mousefix mod and I turned off the V-sync and use an fps limiter instead.

[učo73]

Originally posted by ConseQuence:

I have no problems with Win 10. Sure I use the mousefix mod and I turned off the V-sync and use an fps limiter instead.

I don't have any problem too. Dead Space 2008 working perfect!

[Chizu]

Another to note is that if you wanna play with a gamepad, the deadzones are terrible on analogue sticks, you can fix this by using the steam controller options to use a fixed config for the game.

Honestly surprised they haven't "remastered" this game. If they re-released it with better gamepad and mouse controls, I'd rebuy it...

[Zurv]

i've sadly not been able to find the fix to get it to work in windows 10 on either of my systems. I've spend days on it. *sad*

I've been trying new things for maybe 2 months. I think it might not like high core count CPUs (or maybe it doesn't like a clean install of windows 1909.. *shrug* (or 4k screens... or something)

but for the people that got it working, the trick it to make the ini file in the correct appdata folder and run it in compatibily mode.

[Regufyz]

play on 60fps cap.

You go to the nividia control panel and activate vsync on dead space. Put it to ON.
then you go in dead space and disable vsync.
After that you set your resolution to for example: 1900 * 1080 * 60fps
if you do that the controls are id say 95% perfect.
And its on 60fps so you dont feel a big difference.

[Regufyz]

Originally posted by Regufyz:

play on 60fps cap.

You go to the nividia control panel and activate vsync on dead space. Put it to ON.
then you go in dead space and disable vsync.
After that you set your resolution to for example: 1900 * 1080 * 60fps
if you do that the controls are id say 95% perfect.
And its on 60fps so you dont feel a big difference.

No mouse lag and the sensitify is also minimal

[AussiePatriot]

Im just trying to remap WASD to the arrow keys as im a lefty, following the PCgaming wiki guide but the reference table for hex values to remap the keys dont show what the hex values for arrow keys are. Help?

[AussiePatriot]

Originally posted by J'Mutan ✨:

I want this game . . .

Its less then $8 (Aus) at cdkeys.com lol

[Wicked]

Originally posted by Regufyz:

play on 60fps cap.

You go to the nividia control panel and activate vsync on dead space. Put it to ON.
then you go in dead space and disable vsync.
After that you set your resolution to for example: 1900 * 1080 * 60fps
if you do that the controls are id say 95% perfect.
And its on 60fps so you dont feel a big difference.

I know it's an old comment but V-sync sucks and not everyone has 60hz monitor. Nvidia Control Panel has fps cap option which is much better than v-sync.

[Diegoth]

I have a Ryzen 1300x @ 3.7Ghz + RX 570. Obviously my build is extremely powerful for the game, but the following happens to me:
If I don't activate vsync, I can't rotate the character correctly, like just a few degrees. If I activate vsync, everything is normal there

Try your guide and keep shooting at 36fps (I have a 72hz monitor - Samsung CF390)

---- EDIT 03/07/2021 12:13 AM ----
I have tried all the possible guides on the internet and also a modification of txt on the sensitivity of the mause. Nothing worked.

What did work was:
In that settings.txt in [USER] \ AppData \ Local \ Electronic Arts \ Dead Space
Window.Hz = 120
With RTSS lock the fps at 120

Problem solved!.

[retro_Ed]

R2600 + RX560 here and almost 4k / 60fps (locked 60fps 3840x1800 ultrawide)

Game runs totally fine with Proton. Mouse is a little lazy. Nothing serious.
V-sync ON/OFF, it does not matter. There is no door glitch. All those issues seems to be when running Windows. On Linux systems, game runs like it should be.

[vlad[54rus]]

Originally posted by retro_Ed:

R2600 + RX560 here and almost 4k / 60fps (locked 60fps 3840x1800 ultrawide)

Game runs totally fine with Proton. Mouse is a little lazy. Nothing serious.
V-sync ON/OFF, it does not matter. There is no door glitch. All those issues seems to be when running Windows. On Linux systems, game runs like it should be.

Glitches are related to fps, not vsync. If you unlock it and let it render 300+ fps — they will happen.

[superrast]

I have a detailed and simple guide with this same stuff and more :) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2151773190

[FalseChords]

We have fixes for Mouse sensitivity but I need help with a fix for controller sensitivity. Since the sensitivity is tied to framerate, playing at 60FPS makes the controller sensitivity way too high. And since the game doesn't have a way to change the controller sensitivity this is a problem.

pcgamingwiki has a section for the different inputs and next to "controller sensitivity" the note states...

"The command has to be manually added through the settings.exe file for the game."

But of course, it doesn't actually say what the command is. Does anyone know what command needs to be added to the ini?

And to clarify, by "sensitivity" I mean the speed of the camera moving left/right/up/down. I am not talking about controller deadzones since Durazno fixes that.