The Evil Within 2

The Evil Within 2

Developers
	Tango Gameworks
Publishers
	Bethesda Softworks
Engines
	STEM Engine
Release dates
Windows	October 13, 2017
Reception
Metacritic	80
OpenCritic	80
IGDB	81
Taxonomy
Series	The Evil Within

The Evil Within
The Evil Within	2014
The Evil Within 2	2017

Key points

Low CPU and GPU utilization resulting in low FPS or micro-stuttering is still present in the latest version.

General information

Official Support Page

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Bethesda.net
GamersGate
GOG.com
Microsoft Store		Included with Xbox Game Pass for PC
Steam
Humble Store (unavailable)

A demo is available on Steam.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
The Last Chance Pack	Pre-order bonus, and included with the GOG version.

Essential improvements

In-game general settings.

Skip intro videos

Apply The Evil Within 2 Intro Skip

Game data

In-game HUD display settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\TangoGameworks\The Evil Within 2\base\the_evil_within2Config.cfg
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/601430/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\TangoGameworks\The Evil Within 2\base\savegame\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/601430/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud		Backs up saved games and user settings.
Xbox Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.

In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Cutscenes are 16:9 pillarboxed. Use the 48:9 cutscenes fix.
Ultra-widescreen		Cutscenes are 16:9 pillarboxed. Use the 21:9 cutscenes fix.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		45-90° horizontal. Changes dynamically depending on the scene/location.
Windowed		Also supports hotsampling.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		4x by default.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA, TAA, TAA+FXAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Display based, display based (half), 60 FPS, 30 FPS, and disabled.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped at 240 FPS. However; the game will exponentially speed up at 240 FPS while mostly remaining fine at lower rates.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Post-processing

Use The Evil Within 2 3D Vision fix

Notes Adjusts the in-game post-process filters via hotkeys. F4: color filter toggle. Not disabled by default. This disables the color filter, making the game more colorful. F5: TAA toggle. Disabled by default. F6: sharpening strength multipliers (x0, x1, x2, x3, x4). x0 by default. 0: vignette toggle. Disabled by default. Vignette makes the borders dark but the center brighter. 9: main lens flares presets. Disabled by default.

Input

In-game controls settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		No in-game option and doesn't seem like there's any acceleration by default.
Mouse sensitivity		Separate menu and in-game sensitivity sliders.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Two pre-defined layouts.
Controller sensitivity		Separate X- and Y-axis sensitivity.
Controller Y-axis inversion		X-axis inversion also available.

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
Haptic feedback		Can be disabled.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Rapidly changes button prompts.

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  In-game controller layout settings.

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  In-game keyboard bindings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sliders for Master, SFX, Voice, Music and Cinematic levels. A dynamic range setting is also present.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Title screen produces sound, but main game forces a pause on Alt+Tab ↹ which switches to silence.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Hungarian				Fan translation.
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish				Retail only. Download.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: The Evil Within 2 (DX11).

Issues unresolved

Communicator stops working randomly

Restart the game or load a save game

Press the aiming button then release it and your Communicator will be fixed[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
Shader Model support	5.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	Wwise
Cutscenes	Bink Video	4K upscaled cutscenes available from Nexus Mods.

Console

Use the +com_allowconsole 1 parameter to activate the in-game console and access it with Insert. For a list of commands type listCMDs and listCvars.

Achievements become disabled and once the game saves this can not be reverted for that save file.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2400 AMD FX-8320	Intel Core i7-4770 AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	40 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7970 2 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 480 6 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.