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How to play Precursors in 2021
By kony
Quick appliance of patches and fixes that will make your experience much more pleasant.
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration, Workshop
Languages: English
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24 Dec, 2020 @ 5:58am
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Guide Index
Overview
Introduction 
Instructions 
Additional links 
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Introduction
The game doesn't require much fiddling thanks to hard effort of the community, especially Wesp5 who made a great unofficial patch and all the collaborators. Nonetheless, below I describe what you need to do to make the game run properly so as to enhance your experience and avoid potential issues.
Instructions
1. Install the game on Steam.

2. Download and install the Unofficial Patch v. 2.0 which fixes an enormous amount of bugs and includes translation of cutscenes to English.
Link: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-precursors-unofficial-patch/downloads/the-precursors-unofficial-patch-20

3. Download and install film grain removal and AMD flickering fix.
Link: https://www.moddb.com/games/the-precursors/addons/no-film-grain-fix

Just copy the .txt files into the game's ..\postprocess folder


That should be all! Enjoy the game!
Additional links
If you want to mod the game you might be interested in SDK, recently updated for Windows 10:
Link: https://www.moddb.com/games/the-precursors/downloads/the-precursors-sdk
18 Comments
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Aramundir 12 May @ 2:41am 
Even with the Unofficial patch installed, this game has horrible mouse acceleration issues. Many people said that installing Patch 1.1 fixes this. But for me, copying the files from Patch 1.1 into the gamefiles turns it unplayable, as now the game requires a disk. But I own a legitimate copy on Steam. Anyone knows how to fix this?
DarkStas 19 Jun, 2024 @ 12:15pm 
Saying "Error 5: Access is denied"
maximthebear 28 Apr, 2024 @ 6:40am 
:d4_wink::bluewing:
Kassar 1 Nov, 2022 @ 12:59pm 
ModDB says : The download requested could not be found. under the link
patch 2.1 at
https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-precursors-unofficial-patch/downloads/the-precursors-unofficial-patch
Feidias 18 Oct, 2022 @ 4:49am 
This did not work for me very well unfortunately. Got some error regarding sound and game crashes. Strange that the game does run fine without the patch and film grain fix. Only issue I have is when exiting the game. The game will not stop running.
I, Claudius #StandWithRussia 14 Jan, 2022 @ 4:44am 
It seems that the patch doesn't completely solve the memory leak, but does significantly reduce the frequency of crashes. So thumbs up from me :steamthumbsup:
kony  [author] 11 Jan, 2022 @ 10:17pm 
I don't remember it crashing a lot, so probably? But I can't answer for certain, you'd have to ask Wesp5.
I, Claudius #StandWithRussia 11 Jan, 2022 @ 9:45pm 
Does this also fix the memory leak that causes saving to crash the game if you spend too long in the same area?
pemulis 17 Aug, 2021 @ 8:22pm 
i have checked the .ini files with no luck -- ive also tried using a non widescreen resolution thinking perhaps that affected the horizontal mouse movement somehow but still no dice. im probably wrong about why theres a discrepancy between vertical and horizontal mouse movement but i can't figure it out.
kony  [author] 4 Aug, 2021 @ 11:23pm 
Have you checked .ini files?