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Contrast

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Contrast
Contrast cover
Developers
Compulsion Games
Publishers
Focus Home Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows November 15, 2013
Contrast on Wikipedia

General information

Official site
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Collector's edition Includes Original Soundtrack and the Programme (Artwork, Dev. Diary).
No option to buy separately.[1]
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use launch parameter[citation needed]
  • Add Menu_CabaretWithoutLogo to the game's launch parameter. Note that there is no dash (-) before the first word.

Notes

For information how to use launch parameters, see Command line arguments.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Contrast\ContrastGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\binaries\win32\contrastsave*[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

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The game uses graphic presets (low, medium, high) and doesn't offer advanced settings.

Field of view (FOV)

Use Flawless Widescreen[citation needed]
Set hotkeys in ContrastInput.ini[2]
  1. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Contrast\ContrastGame\Config\ContrastInput.ini
  2. Go to [Engine.PlayerInput] and add the following lines with the FOV you want:
    • Bindings=(Name="L", Command="FOV 150")
    • Bindings=(Name="K", Command="FOV 90")
  3. Save your changes. Start the game and press K to use the new FOV.

Notes

Press L to lower FOV for cutscenes and puzzles that don't display correctly with high FOV values.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Set borderless windowed[citation needed]
  1. Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide.
  2. Start the game and press Ctrl+ Shift+← Backspace to toggle Special K's Control Panel.
  3. Open the Display menu and select "Windowed Mode" and "Force Override".
  4. Expand "Window Management" and "Style and Position".
  5. Enable "Borderless" and "Fullscreen (Borderless Upscale)".
  6. Restart game to apply the changes.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Set AF manually[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open ContrastEngine.ini.
  3. Change MaxAnisotropy=4 to MaxAnisotropy=16.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Force SGSSAA[3]
  1. Download and open Nvidia Profile Inspector.
  2. Open the Contrast profile.
  3. Set Antialiasing Compatibility to 0x080000C1.
  4. Set Antialiasing Mode to Override any application setting.
  5. Set Antialiasing Setting to 4x Multisampling or your desired level of MSAA.
  6. Set Antialiasing Transparency Supersampling to 4x Sparse Grid Supersampling or your desired level of SGSSAA.
  7. Apply changes and close the program.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Disable Vsync[4]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open ContrastEngine.ini.
  3. Change UseVsync=True to UseVsync=False.

High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open ContrastEngine.ini.
  3. Search and change bSmoothFrameRate to FALSE or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate value.
  4. Save file.
For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.

Input settings

Mouse settings.
Mouse settings.
Controls screen.
Controls screen.

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Mouse smoothing

Modify ContrastInput.ini[citation needed]
  1. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Contrast\ContrastGame\Config\ContrastInput.ini
  2. Go to bEnableMouseSmoothing under the section [Engine.PlayerInput] and change the value to false
  3. Save your changes and start the game.

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

It's not possible to change language and subtitles separately.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Fan translation. Details missing—please edit this page and add it.
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Contrast.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP2, Vista SP1, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) AMD / Intel 2.3 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon X2600 XT
Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX
512 MB of VRAM
Shader model 3.0 support

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/224460/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (224460) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References