Outlast

Outlast

Developers
	Red Barrels
macOS (OS X)	Soft Flight
Linux	Soft Flight
Publishers
	Red Barrels
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	September 4, 2013
macOS (OS X)	March 31, 2015
Linux	March 31, 2015
Reception
Metacritic	80
OpenCritic	76
IGDB	77
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Stealth, Survival horror
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Horror
Series	Outlast

Outlast
Outlast	2013
Outlast 2	2017
The Outlast Trials	2024

Outlast is a singleplayer first-person stealth and survival horror game in the Outlast series.

32-bit systems are not officially supported but a workaround exists (see 32-bit workaround).

General information

Guide for various tweaks

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Developer website		Purchase via Humble Widget.
Epic Games Store
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam		Outlast Trinity also available.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Whistleblower	Part of the Outlast Trinity

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename IntroLogo.bik[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\OLGame\Movies\. Delete or rename IntroLogo.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/Outlast/OLGame/Config/

This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\SaveData\
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/Outlast/OLGame/Cloud/
Steam	<Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/238320/remote/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud		Approx. 10 MB available. Settings will sync too, including graphics settings.

Video

General settings

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Can also be toggled with Alt+↵ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Controlled by the Textures setting.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA. (set by setting the Effects setting to at least High) See Anti-aliasing (AA) for MSAA. SGSSAA also available for Nvidia GPUs through Nvidia Inspector with the 0x080010C1 flag.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Frame rate is capped at 62 FPS. See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

HBAO+ also available for Nvidia GPUs through Nvidia Inspector with the 0x00000025 flag. HBAO+ is incompatible with SGSSAA but has no issues with Downsampling.

Field of view (FOV)

Change FOV
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

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Set borderless windowed

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.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Edit OLSystemSettings.ini[citation needed]
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.

Downsampling

Edit OLEngine.ini
Change bUseCustomResolution to True. Change CustomResX and CustomResY to desired downsampling resolution.

High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing[1]

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.

Motion blur

Edit OLSystemSettings.ini
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.

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
Find DepthOfField=True and set it to False.

Film grain

Removes the film grain effect without affecting other post-processing effects.

Remove film grain
Download this file. Follow the instructions in the readme.

Input

Key bindings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse smoothing can be disabled. See Mouse smoothing.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See Controller remapping.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Mouse smoothing

Edit OLInput.ini[citation needed]
Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlast\OLGame\Config\OLInput.ini. Change the first instance of bEnableMouseSmoothing=true to bEnableMouseSmoothing=false. Save the changes.

Controller remapping

Edit DefaultInput.ini[citation needed]

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.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Kazakh				Fan translation, download.
Arabic				Fan translation, download.
Czech				Fan - dub
French
German
Hungarian				Also a fan made translation is available.
Italian
Japanese				Fan translation. Available to download. To activate it, go to game settings and select language "NIHONGO" and confirm.
Korean				Fan translation. Available to download. It substitutes the English localization.
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese				Old fan translation made by Tribo Gamer available here.
Russian
Serbian				Fan translation (cyrillic). Available to download. It substitutes the english localization.
Slovak				Fan - 1
Spanish
Turkish				Fan translation. Available to download.
Ukrainian				Fan translation, download.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Outlast.
TriDef 3D
vorpX		G3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

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.

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.

Add -32 parameter
Use the -32 command line argument.

Stuttering issues (Texture Streaming Issue)

Increase Poolsize
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.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c
OpenGL

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			32-bit systems are not officially supported. See 32-bit workaround.
macOS (OS X)
Linux

32-bit workaround

4-gigabyte tuning

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.

Increase texture resolution

Edit OLEngine.ini[citation needed]
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.

Increase shadow resolution

Edit OLSystemSettings.ini
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.

Disable quick time events

Edit DefaultGame.ini[citation needed]
Open <path-to-game>/OLGame/Config/DefaultGame.ini. Change StruggleNoFail=False to StruggleNoFail=True. Save the changes.

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	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
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	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)
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.9
Processor (CPU)	2.2 GHz Dual Core		2.8 GHz Quad Core
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	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
	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
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	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