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BlowOut
BlowOut cover
Developers
Terminal Reality
Publishers
Majesco
Engines
Infernal Engine
Release dates
Windows October 28, 2003
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BlowOut on MobyGames
BlowOut on Wikipedia

Key points

Game features a graphics setting launcher, but is disabled by default in the Steam version.
Suffers from significant performance issues on Windows 10. See Increase Rendering Resolution.
Introduction videos may not work on newer versions of Windows. See Increase Rendering Resolution.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\video
  2. Rename, move or delete these files:
infernal.mpg
intro.mpg
logo.mpg

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

}
System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\system\blowout.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/719070/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

}
System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savegame\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/719070/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Local saves only.

Video settings

Video settings launcher.
Video settings launcher.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Modify blowout.ini
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the blowout.ini file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Change the values of gamePIXX and gamePIXY to your desired resolution.
  4. Save the changes.
Menu and UI are cut off on the top and bottom.
Vertical FOV is reduced.

Increase Rendering Resolution

Play at 1080p or higher
  1. Download dgVoodoo.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to <path-to-game>, where Blowout.exe resides.
  3. Open the MS folder in the dgVoodoo zip and extract DDraw.dll, D3DImm.dll, D3D8.dll, and D3D9.dll from the x86 folder to <path-to-game>, again where Blowout.exe resides.
  4. Open dgVoodooCpl.exe.
  5. Make sure the Config folder / Running instance is set to <path-to-game>, it may already be there by default.
  6. In the General tab, set Adapter(s) to use / enable to your current graphics card, Appearance to Full Screen, and Scaling mode to either Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio or Stretched, 4:3 Aspect Ratio.
  7. In the DirectX tab, make sure Disable and passthru to real DirectX is unchecked, and set Resolution to Max. You can uncheck dgVoodoo Watermark if you wish.
  8. Optional: under Texturing, set Filtering to Force anisotropic 16x and set Antialiasing (MSAA) to 8x to enable anisotropic filtering and antialiasing respectively. Under Miscellaneous, check Force vSync to enable vSync.
  9. Click Apply and exit the program.
Also helps with game performance on Windows 10.
Opening videos now play correctly on newer versions of Windows.

Input settings

  • General control settings.

  • Keyboard rebinding.

  • Controller rebinding.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, XP XP
Processor (CPU) 733 MHz
AMD equivalent		 Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB+200 MB virtual memory
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible 		Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4600
ATI Radeon 9800
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device) Sound Blaster Audigy
Other 4x CD-ROM 8x CD-ROM

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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>/719070/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (719070) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References