FlatOut 2

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FlatOut 2

Developers   Bugbear Entertainment OS X Virtual Programming

Publishers   Empire Interactive

Release dates Windows December 21, 2006 OS X October 3, 2008 Linux July 24, 2014

FlatOut

FlatOut	2004
FlatOut 2	2006
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage	2007
FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction	2011

Key points

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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
GOG.com
Amazon.com		Windows
Amazon.com		OS X
GamersGate		Windows.
GamersGate		OS X. DRM: Deliver2Mac
Mac App Store		OS X only. No online play.
Steam
Retail		de facto DRM free as it doesn't seem to check for anything (may only be valid for cut down German version)

Version differences

The Mac App Store version does not support online play.

Essential improvements

Opening the launcher

After the first time launching the game, the launcher won't show up again and you will be unable to configure the settings.

How to open the launcher after the first time To make the launcher open up again, you need to pass -setup as an argument.

Patch 1.2

US and EU patch can be found here

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows
OS X
Linux

Save game data location

	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Savegame
OS X
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

Game launcher.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Aspect ration can be set in launcher, however it doesn't affect the FOV and squishes HUD. Use ThirteenAG's fix to increase the FOV and fix HUD squishing.
Multi-monitor			ThirteenAG's fix makes menus go weird, and makes the game go VERT- instead of HOR+. Unplayable.
Ultra-widescreen			Using ThirteenAG's fix.
4K Ultra HD			works in theory, as the game configuration tool fetches a list of possible resolutions directly from the driver. If the aspect ratio of your display happens to be 16:9, no problems.
Field of view (FOV)		ThirteenAG's widescreen fix required. Change FOV_multiplier value into flatout2_widescreen_fix.ini
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Vsync seems to be always enabled.
High frame rate		Frame rate is capped at 100 FPS.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller Y-axis inversion

To enable Force Feedback on XInput controller, see XInput force feedback vibration in DirectInput games.

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and sound effects are independent.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		8	Not available in the Mac App Store version.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP2, 2000 SP4 , Vista, 7 (no problems with 64-bit OS)
Processor (CPU)	1.5GHz Pentium 3 or AMD 2000+ processor	2 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	1024 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB video card (may run with 32 MB video card)

OS X
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8	10.6.8 or higher
Processor (CPU)	Any Intel CPU
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	GeForce 7300, Radeon X1600 or Intel GMA X3100 128 MB