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OutcastEXPERIMENTAL OUTCAST HI-RES PATCH, UP TO 1280x768 + CYANA LIGHTHOUSE PROBLEM FIXED(291 posts)(291 posts)
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Posted October 14, 2010
Throwing in my 2 cents, this patch is absolutely phenomenal. I haven't encountered any errors whatsoever, and the game looks bloody gorgeous. Going from that little box in the middle of huge black borders to full-screen mega-pixel madness was like going from dial-up to DSL. This patch is absolutely necessary to get the full game experience!
Posted October 19, 2010
Wow! Thanks so much for this Zenger!
Been using for a few days and it's awesome to be able to play fullscreen!

Oh and cheers Muskie for those .ini settings : 3
Posted October 22, 2010
sweet thanks mang! I installed this at 800x600 on my little netbook, runs perfectly!
Posted October 25, 2010
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Muskie: Replace the contents of your character_detail_high.ini with this:
<snip>
Thank you! :)
Post edited October 25, 2010 by Lehti
Posted October 26, 2010
Wow, this is wonderful work. Many thanks to Zenger for the patch and Muskie for the .ini tweaks.

Two small things still have me wondering if it can be tweaked further. I wonder about is whether or not it's possible to change the camera angle for when you are crawling. As it is right now, when you're in 1280x768, your character will be completely off the screen when you crawl because the top and the bottom of the image are cut off. This makes it tough to tell whether or not you're out in the open. Also, when I go underwater and look up through the surface of the water, the water doesn't appear transparent and seems to display a strange graphical glitch rather than letting me see what's above the surface as it behaves in the unmodded version of the game. Does the .ini file give us the ability to make changes to things like this?
Post edited October 26, 2010 by alexkbaker
Posted October 30, 2010
This patch is absolutely amazing, so amazing in fact that there aren't any words I can think of to convey it. Thanks so so much!
Posted October 31, 2010
Are there any alternate mirrors? Megaupload seems to despise my computer and violently rejects any attempts to get anything off of it.

EDIT: Disregard, I have no reading skills.
Post edited November 03, 2010 by CWalker00
Posted October 31, 2010
Hi,

I own the original DVD from 1999 out it runs well on my Ubuntu 10.10 Linux with Wine 1.2.1. Now I want to install this hires patch and even purchased this GoG Version of Outcast. But its only in english!? My original Outcast starts in german and I can't find a language setting in the Outcast menu. How can I change the language?
Post edited October 31, 2010 by outcast1
Posted October 31, 2010
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outcast1: Hi,

I own the original DVD from 1999 out it runs well on my Ubuntu 10.10 Linux with Wine 1.2.1. Now I want to install this hires patch and even purchased this GoG Version of Outcast. But its only in english!? My original Outcast starts in german and I can't find a language setting in the Outcast menu. How can I change the language?
There are a buch of topics about this:
- http://www.gog.com/en/forum/outcast/speech_problems_and_german_localisation_available
- http://www.gog.com/en/forum/outcast/german_language
- http://www.gog.com/en/forum/outcast/change_game_language

In summary, you must copy some files to have german localisation.
Posted November 01, 2010
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sebarnolds: In summary, you must copy some files to have german localisation.
Thanks! I just wonder, why this wasn't necessary with my DVD installation but with the GoG Installation.

So, now I have 1280x1024 in german. So far, so good. But where is the "Hi-Res" of this patch? I have a bigger window to look in the Outcast world, but I can't notice and quality improvement! The pixels are not smaller. From other game's hi-res patches I am used to have higher resolutioned graphics and textures. (I know, Outcast has voxels). But I expected to have a higher resolution per centimeter. As this is not the case, it's not a "hi-res" patch but just a "screen size" patch. Am I right or what???
Posted November 02, 2010
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outcast1: As this is not the case, it's not a "hi-res" patch but just a "screen size" patch. Am I right or what???
The game's resolution is definitely much higher, but the number of voxels the game uses to display the world haven't been increased. This stuff was designed for a computer from 1998 and my understanding is that it's hard coded into the game. This patch isn't a reskin of the game with new models and textures. It's simply a hack to make the game display its original assets in a higher resolution. There are things you can tweak (listed in the .ini hacks earlier in this thread) to make Outcast look better on a modern machine, like increase the draw distance and make the game use the high detail character models even when they're far away from the camera, but it's still fundamentally the same game from 1998, resolution aside.
Posted November 03, 2010
Thank you for creating this patch, I completed the game the first time in 400*300 :) And when I wanted to play again a couple of years ago I couldn't get the 640 * 480 patch working, but now it's in 1280 * 1024. Hands down, awesome job!

B.t.w. I found a solution for the "black flickering" at least it worked in my case. Disable the animated tray icon of your virusscanner(like Avast)
Posted November 04, 2010
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Muskie: Replace the contents of your character_detail_high.ini with this:

[Visual_Quality_Control]
amh_shadow_limit_contraction_factor=5
amh_bump_disable_distance=18000

combat_stan_lod_near_limit=450000.0
combat_stan_lod_far_limit=800000.0
normal_stan_lod_near_limit=450000.0
normal_stan_lod_far_limit=800000.0
dialog_stan_lod_near_limit=450000.0
dialog_stan_lod_far_limit=800000.0

combat_animal_lod_near_limit=650000.0
combat_animal_lod_far_limit=1400000.0
normal_animal_lod_near_limit=650000.0
normal_animal_lod_far_limit=1400000.0
dialog_animal_lod_near_limit=650000.0
dialog_animal_lod_far_limit=1400000.0

combat_human_lod_near_limit=400000.0
combat_human_lod_far_limit=700000.0
normal_human_lod_near_limit=400000.0
normal_human_lod_far_limit=700000.0
dialog_human_lod_near_limit=400000.0
dialog_human_lod_far_limit=700000.0

dead_human_lod_near_limit=10000.0
dead_human_far_limit=40000.0

replace the current settings for [WaterEffect] in outcast.ini with this:

[WaterEffect]
Water_opacity_shift=60
Water_opacity_pitch=2.000000
Water_opacity_offset=25
i just install the patch and runs perfect (THANK YOU!!!), but i cant save the changes in the .ini file... it does not give me permission or smth... i have win7 64bit.... any ideas? i really want to play this game in all its glory... i am 20 minutes in and i already love it...
Posted November 04, 2010
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Muskie: Replace the contents of your character_detail_high.ini with this:

[Visual_Quality_Control]
amh_shadow_limit_contraction_factor=5
amh_bump_disable_distance=18000

combat_stan_lod_near_limit=450000.0
combat_stan_lod_far_limit=800000.0
normal_stan_lod_near_limit=450000.0
normal_stan_lod_far_limit=800000.0
dialog_stan_lod_near_limit=450000.0
dialog_stan_lod_far_limit=800000.0

combat_animal_lod_near_limit=650000.0
combat_animal_lod_far_limit=1400000.0
normal_animal_lod_near_limit=650000.0
normal_animal_lod_far_limit=1400000.0
dialog_animal_lod_near_limit=650000.0
dialog_animal_lod_far_limit=1400000.0

combat_human_lod_near_limit=400000.0
combat_human_lod_far_limit=700000.0
normal_human_lod_near_limit=400000.0
normal_human_lod_far_limit=700000.0
dialog_human_lod_near_limit=400000.0
dialog_human_lod_far_limit=700000.0

dead_human_lod_near_limit=10000.0
dead_human_far_limit=40000.0

replace the current settings for [WaterEffect] in outcast.ini with this:

[WaterEffect]
Water_opacity_shift=60
Water_opacity_pitch=2.000000
Water_opacity_offset=25
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serestrum: i just install the patch and runs perfect (THANK YOU!!!), but i cant save the changes in the .ini file... it does not give me permission or smth... i have win7 64bit.... any ideas? i really want to play this game in all its glory... i am 20 minutes in and i already love it...
Have you tried opening the file as an Administrator?

If that fails, rename the file to something else (e.g. character_detail_highold.ini)
Launch notepad and copy the contents of the original file (or the one you quoted) and save the file as 'character_detail_high.ini'.

Same thing can be done with the [WaterEffect] part if that also doesn't let you save the changes.
I don't suppose anyone has an idea as to how to fix that graphical glitch you get when the camera's under water and the world above the water is some yellow/green stripey blur? That's the only issue I've seen with this patch.
Post edited November 08, 2010 by dommyuk
Posted November 11, 2010
I just got this game, and Installed the game and V3 right after it, but I have major lag, is there a way to fix it ? I aswell can't find the character_details.ini file, only character_details_high, character_details_medium/low etc....
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