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Indeed, this worked and it's much better! Your help is very much appreciated!

I have so many issues with the French translation that I don't want to play the French version anymore. So I've searched about how to play PoE in English under Steam. I saw all the information I needed here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8487-WSCN-4121 So I double-checked, my Steam interface is in English and the language for the game is English. My Windows (7) interface is in English as well. I have only set up French in some parts of my computer (locale formatting and keyboard settings in Control Panel > Region and Languages) so I don't get why PoE is starting in French. It shouldn't.

Hello there, Just for info, my native language is French and I'm quite fluent in English due to my job. I first launched the game. At first I was surprised that it was starting in French, but I probably had configured Steam that way, I don't remember: I last played on this computer some 6 months ago. I didn't mind and I even thought "nice, they're having a French version, this is really great". Then I create a new game and I was listening to the voice speaking in English, nice story, then my eyes came back on the screen and I saw that there was some text scrolling in French. It was the same text that was on the audio, but translated. Or I wish I could name this a translation...The text was awful in French. There was no typo, no grammar issue, no. Nothing like that. But the meaning was completely lost in translation. In short, the text was translated word by word. There was a sentence about sky and clues, which was perfectly understandable while listening, but when read in French it had lost half of its meaning. After a few sentences like that, I simply couldn't read anything anymore and I just enjoyed hearing the story being told in English. A bit later, during some load screen, there was an informative text about "survival". That sentence also made absolutely no sense because of incorrect grammar this time. Then only I came to the Character Creation screen. And that lost me. The descriptions of the races were awful in French. I had to translate word by word back in English to understand what was meant. After that, all I did was close the application and I started this topic. I want to enjoy the game, but the translation is destroying everything. If Obsidian wants to make a proper release in French, I suggest to take the all the English and the French texts and give those to a competent and invested translation studio in order to fix this. I'll now find a way in Steam to play this game in English, which is what I wanted in the first place. I won't even bother anymore to go further in French. I'm sure I'll really enjoy the game this way Sorry if this seems like a rant but my hopes are really up for this game and those bad texts just put them really down. I'm sure the English version won't )