Outlast

Outlast
Outlast	2013
Outlast 2	2017
The Outlast Trials	2024

Key points

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
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam		Outlast Trinity also available.

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
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 settings

General settings.

Video settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

Change FOV^[1]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open OLGame.ini.
Change the following values to your preference.
- DefaultFOV=90.0 - Miles' actual FOV
- RunningFOV=100.0 - slightly higher FOV during sprint, including 'run+look back'
- CamcorderMinFOV=15.0 - camcorder FOV at maximum zoom, leave at default
- CamcorderNVMaxFOV=83.0 - camcorder FOV, night vision on
- CamcorderMaxFOV=83.0 - camcorder FOV, normal view

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Set borderless windowed^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>/OLGame/Movies/.
Delete or rename IntroLogo.bik.
Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide.
Start the game in fullscreen mode and press Ctrl+⇧ Shift+← Backspace to toggle Special K's Control Panel.
Open the Display menu and select "Windowed Mode" and "Force Override".
Expand "Window Management" and "Style and Position".
Enable "Borderless" and "Fullscreen (Borderless Upscale)".
Restart game to apply the changes.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Enable SGSSAA using Nvidia Profile Inspector^{[citation needed]}

Download and run NVIDIA Profile Inspector.
Search for Outlast in the profiles list.
Set Antialiasing compatibilty to 0x080010C1
Set Antialiasing - Mode to Override any application setting
Set Antialiasing - Setting to 2x, 4x or 8x Multisampling
Set Antialiasing - Transparency supersampling to 2x, 4x or 8x Sparse Grid Supersampling (the level must match the previous setting).
Set Texture filtering - LOD Bias to:
- -0.500 (if using 2x MSAA + 2x SGSSAA).
- -1.000 (if using 4x MSAA + 4x SGSSAA).
- -1.500 (if using 8x MSAA + 8x SGSSAA).
Click Apply to save the changes.

High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open OLEngine.ini.
Change the second instance of bSmoothFrameRate=True to bSmoothFrameRate=False, or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate=62.000000 value.
Save the changes.

Notes

For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.

Motion blur

Edit OLSystemSettings.ini^[2]

Change the following:

MotionBlur=True
MotionBlurPause=True
MotionBlurSkinning=1
AllowRadialBlur=True
MaxFilterBlurSampleCount=16
MobilePostProcessBlurAmount=32.0

to

MotionBlur=FALSE
MotionBlurPause=FALSE
MotionBlurSkinning=0
AllowRadialBlur=FALSE
MaxFilterBlurSampleCount=8
MobilePostProcessBlurAmount=16.0

Disable film grain/depth of field

Edit OLSystemSettings.ini^[3]
Find `DepthOfField=True` and set it to false.

Edit ConsoleVariables.ini^[4]
Find `ImageGrain=` and set it to `0.0`.

Input settings

Key bindings.

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Mouse smoothing

Edit OLInput.ini^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `OLInput.ini`. Change the first instance of `bEnableMouseSmoothing=true` to `bEnableMouseSmoothing=false` Save the changes.

Controller remapping

Edit DefaultInput.ini^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>/OLGame/Config/
Open 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 settings

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Hungarian				Also a fan made translation is available.
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish				A Turkish fan patch is available here.

VR support

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

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.^[5]

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^[6]
Use the `-32` command line argument.

Stuttering issues

Increase Poolsize^[7]
Open OLEngine.ini and edit `Poolsize=` under `[TextureStreaming]`; set the value to one roughly equivalent to you graphics card VRAM. In the same file find the line `TimeBetweenPurgingPendingKillObjects=` and set it to `3600`. If shuttering still does not go away, find and set `bUseBackgroundLevelStreaming=` to false.

Other information

32-bit workaround

4-gigabyte tuning^[8]^[9]

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]}
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `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^[10]
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `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]}
Go to `<path-to-game>/OLGame/Config/` Open `DefaultGame.ini`. Change `StruggleNoFail=False` to `StruggleNoFail=True` Save the changes.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7, 8	A 64-bit system
Processor (CPU)	Dual Core CPU 2.2 GHz	Quad Core CPU 2.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	3 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 9800GTX ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 ATI Radeon HD 6850 1 GB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX Compatible

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

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.9
Processor (CPU)	Dual Core CPU 2.2 GHz	Quad Core CPU 2.8 GHz
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 ATI 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)	Dual Core CPU 2.2 GHz	Quad Core CPU 2.8 GHz
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 ATI Radeon HD 6850 1 GB of VRAM OpenGL 4.x+ compatible
Sound (audio device)	Standard

References

[1] Outlast | WSGF

[2] ttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=176247453

[3] ttps://steamcommunity.com/app/238320/discussions/0/540741131475598122/

[4] ttps://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/130067/is-there-any-way-to-disable-the-film-grain-effect

[5] How To Fix Error Code 0xc000007b

[6] Fix for issues launching the game :: Outlast General Discussions

[7] ttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=176247453

[8] Steam Community :: Guide :: 32bit Optimization

[9] 4-Gigabyte Tuning: BCDEdit and Boot.ini (Windows)

[10] ttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=176247453

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Developers

	Red Barrels
macOS (OS X)	Soft Flight
Linux	Soft Flight
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	September 4, 2013
macOS (OS X)	March 31, 2015
Linux	March 31, 2015