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General information
- Guide for various tweaks
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete/rename IntroLogo.bik[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\OLGame\Movies\ .
- Delete or rename
IntroLogo.bik .
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System |
Location |
Windows |
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\ |
macOS (OS X) |
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Linux |
$XDG_DATA_HOME/Outlast/OLGame/Config/ |
- This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Save game data location
Video
- HBAO+ also available for Nvidia GPUs through Nvidia Inspector with the
0x00000025
flag. HBAO+ is incompatible with SGSSAA but has no issues with Downsampling.
Change FOV[1]
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- Open
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\OLGame.ini .
- Change the following values to your preference.
DefaultFOV=100.0 - Default FOV
RunningFOV=120.0 - Sprinting FOV
CamcorderMinFOV=15.0 - Camcorder FOV at maximum zoom
CamcorderNVMaxFOV=90.0 - Camcorder FOV with night vision enabled
CamcorderMaxFOV=90.0 - Camcorder FOV with night vision disabled
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Set borderless windowed[2]
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- Go to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Movies\ . (Optional)
- Delete or rename
IntroLogo.bik . (Optional)
- Install and run GeDoSaTo.
- Edit settings and find the following line in
GeDoSaTo.ini : forceBorderlessFullscreen false .
- Edit the value from
false to true to force this mode.
- Add "OLGame" to the user whitelist.
- Run the game in its normal fullscreen mode as opposed to windowed.
Notes
- GeDoSaTo works best for Outlast, as it runs on Unreal Engine 3.
- Updater/installer may crash. From an administrator command prompt, run
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319" /v SchUseStrongCrypto /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /reg:32 .[3]
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Edit OLSystemSettings.ini[citation needed]
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- Open
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\OLSystemSettings.ini .
- For MSAA, set
bAllowD3D9MSAA to True and MaxMultiSamples to 2 , 4 , or 8 .
- For post-process AA, enable either
bAllowPostprocessMLAA or bAllowTemporalAA .
Notes
- The "high" and "very high" in-game settings enable FXAA, set
bAllowPostprocessFXAA to False to disable it.
- Installing the DLC breaks MSAA support.
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Edit OLEngine.ini[4]
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- Change
bUseCustomResolution to True.
- Change
CustomResX and CustomResY to desired downsampling resolution.
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Change frame rate smoothing[1]
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- Open
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\OLEngine.ini .
- Change all instances of
bSmoothFrameRate=True to bSmoothFrameRate=False .
- Set all instances of
MinSmoothedFrameRate to the 0 value.
- Set all instances of
MaxSmoothedFrameRate to the 0 value.
- Save the changes.
Notes
- Note that there are multiple instances of each of those lines. All of them may have to be changed to fully unlock the frame rate.
- For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.
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Motion blur
Edit OLSystemSettings.ini[5]
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- Open
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\OLSystemSettings.ini .
- Change the following:
MotionBlur=True
MotionBlurPause=True
AllowRadialBlur=True
to
MotionBlur=False
MotionBlurPause=False
AllowRadialBlur=False
Notes
- Note that there are multiple instances of each of those lines. All of them may have to be changed to fully disable motion blur.
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Depth of field
- Disabling depth of field also disables all other post-processing effects in the game, including the night vision effect.
Edit OLSystemSettings.ini[6]
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- Find
DepthOfField=True and set it to False.
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Film grain
- Removes the film grain effect without affecting other post-processing effects.
Remove film grain
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- Download this file.
- Follow the instructions in the readme.
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Input
Edit OLInput.ini[citation needed]
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- Open
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\OLInput.ini .
- Change the first instance of
bEnableMouseSmoothing=true to bEnableMouseSmoothing=false .
- Save the changes.
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Edit DefaultInput.ini[citation needed]
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- Open
<path-to-game>\OLGame\Config\DefaultInput.ini .
- Scroll right to the bottom where you will find a paragraph of text starting with
.GPBindingsC= .
- Edit
Command="X" for each line/button in this paragraph to customize the controls, using the above paragraph starting with .GPBindingsB= as reference to the available commands.
- Save the changes.
- Launch the game, go to Options >> General and change Controller Configuration to Type C to use the custom layout.
Notes
- Changing the controller layout in this fashion will also edit the shown controller map under Options >> General >> Controller Configuration for ease of use.
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Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Up to 7.0 output.[7] |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Also a fan made translation is available. |
Italian |
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Japanese |
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Fan translation. Available to download. To activate it, go to game settings and select language "NIHONGO" and confirm. |
Korean |
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Fan translation. Available to download. It substitutes the English localization. |
Polish |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Russian |
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Serbian |
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Fan translation (cyrillic). Available to download. It substitutes the english localization. |
Spanish |
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Turkish |
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Fan translation. Available to download. |
Ukrainian |
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Fan translation, download. |
VR support
Issues fixed
Crash on launch
- On some 64-bit systems the game will not launch, showing a brief black window possibly with a cryptic error 0xc000007b.[8]
- This will instruct the game to run in 32-bit mode even on a 64-bit platform, which should work just the same but bypasses the issue with incompatible 64-bit system libraries.
Stuttering issues (Texture Streaming Issue)
Increase Poolsize[10]
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- Open
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\OLEngine.ini .
- Under
[TextureStreaming] , set the value of Poolsize= to one roughly equivalent to the current graphics card VRAM amount.
- In the same file, find the line
TimeBetweenPurgingPendingKillObjects= and set it to 3600 .
- If stuttering still does not go away, find and set
bUseBackgroundLevelStreaming= to false .
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9.0c |
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OpenGL |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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32-bit systems are not officially supported. See 32-bit workaround. |
macOS (OS X) | |
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Linux | |
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32-bit workaround
4-gigabyte tuning[11][12]
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- Open the Start menu, type
cmd.exe , right click on it to open the context menu and click on "Run as administrator..."
- In the console window, type
BCDEdit /set increaseuserva 3072 and press ↵ Enter.
- Reboot the system and start the game.
Notes
- Bear in mind that this workaround can decrease the overall performance of the operating system after playing the game, so please revert the changes by opening an elevated command prompt, typing
BCDEdit /deletevalue increaseuserva and rebooting the system.
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Increase texture resolution
Edit OLEngine.ini[citation needed]
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- Open
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\OLEngine.ini .
- Find the lines:
MaxProcBuildingLODColorTextureSize=1024
MaxProcBuildingLODLightingTextureSize=256
- Change their values to
2048 and 1024 , respectively.
- Save the changes.
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Increase shadow resolution
Edit OLSystemSettings.ini[13]
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- Open
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\OLSystemSettings.ini .
- Find the lines:
MinShadowResolution=64
MaxShadowResolution=2048
MaxWholeSceneDominantShadowResolution=2048
- Change their values to
32 and 4096 , respectively.
- Save the changes.
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Disable quick time events
Edit DefaultGame.ini[citation needed]
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- Open
<path-to-game>/OLGame/Config/DefaultGame.ini .
- Change
StruggleNoFail=False to StruggleNoFail=True .
- Save the changes.
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
XP, Vista, 7, 8 |
A 64-bit system |
Processor (CPU) |
2.2 GHz Dual Core
| 2.8 GHz Quad Core |
System memory (RAM) |
2 GB |
3 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 AMD Radeon HD 6850 1 GB of VRAM |
Sound (audio device) |
DirectX compatible | |
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
10.9 | |
Processor (CPU) |
2.2 GHz Dual Core
| 2.8 GHz Quad Core |
System memory (RAM) |
4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GT 750M ATI Radeon HD 3xxx Intel Iris Pro 5200
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 AMD Radeon HD 6850 1 GB of VRAM |
Sound (audio device) |
Standard | |
Linux |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
Ubuntu 12, Fedora 20, SteamOS |
Ubuntu 14, Fedora 21, SteamOS |
Processor (CPU) |
2.2 GHz Dual Core
| 2.8 GHz Quad Core |
System memory (RAM) |
4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GT 750M ATI Radeon HD 3xxx OpenGL 3.2+ compatible
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 AMD Radeon HD 6850 1 GB of VRAM OpenGL 4.x+ compatible |
Sound (audio device) |
Standard | |
References