Outlast - system requirements: recommended and minimum

For a long time already minds of all world gamers did not excite terrible horror, capable to cause simultaneously desire to play in it and desire to close as soon as possible. Game Outlast, the system requirements of which will be described below, managed to achieve the above criteria, becoming the object of numerous jokes about his horrendous plot.

Good horrors require respect

And the plot is as follows: the journalist goes to a psychiatric hospital in the state of Colorado, in order to find out whether the rumors about the experiments conducted there on people are true. The show was not at all pleasant. The horrors of this clinic will be presented as much as possible, be sure. However, all the cards will not be disclosed, it is better to consider the requirements for the game, which she exposes to those who wish to play it. However, we must first note the excellent combination of requirements with most computers, which, unlike many modern games, will give the player the opportunity to fully or almost fully enjoy all the horrors that are hidden in the game. The requirements of the game Outlast came out very sparing for 2013, if compared with the rest. It can "go" even on very old computer models.

Outlast: minimum system requirements

Now let's look at what gamers with weak computers watch most closely - the minimum necessary system requirements, with which the game will be launched. Immediately I want to give hope to those who did not even get into these parameters. The requirements of most games are in fact often "drawn by the ears". This observation applies even to Outlast, whose system requirements were also slightly overstated. So dare, every computer is able to surprise with their desire to let the player immerse themselves in the gameplay.

However, only official minimum requirements follow. Outlast will play on most OSes from the Windows family: it's XP, and the familiar Vista, as well as all the popular OSes with numbers 7 and 8.

If there are any problems with the startup, the problem is solved by changing the compatibility mode in the launch settings. The minimum processor is Intel Core 2 Duo (2.2 Ghz), as well as the popular AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+. The amount of minimum RAM was 2 Gb, which is also not very much. On the hard drive of your computer, the game will take up a small 5 Gb. Video memory is required 512 Mb, and the video cards are subject to the following requirements: ATI Radeon HD 4870 or GeForce 9800. Well, and without them - the keyboard and mouse are mandatory to fully satisfy Outlast system requirements.

Recommendations

Fans will also enjoy the graphics in games more closely to this section. Many players, after going through the game, very unflatteringly say that most of the system resources of the computer "go into oblivion", not substantially raising the level of graphics by several orders in advance, but the improvements, of course, are noticeable. In general, for the horror, the details and the careful emphasis on them, as well as their drawing and truthfulness, are of particular importance, causing genuine admiration among the players and allowing them to fully enjoy all the proposed atmospheric conditions.

In terms of the operating system, nothing should change, which is confirmed - all the same family of long-remembered Windows operating systems, as before. To processors, however, more serious requirements were demanded - to work on high parameters you will need Intel Core 2 Quad 2.9 Ghz, in another case - AMD Phenom II X4 3.2 Ghz. The amount of RAM was raised to 3 Gb. The video memory is already requested as much as 1 Gb, the following requests to the video card - the GeForce GTX 460, as well as the popular ATI Radeon HD 6850. Of course, the minimum, and maximum, and any requirements include a sound card that is perfectly compatible with the familiar DirectX: 9.0c and DirectX.

System requirements for Outlast: Whistleblower

After about six months, the Canadian studio Red Barrels produces the so-called interquel of such a successful project - Outlast: Whistleblower. The place of action of the game process is the same infamous psychiatric hospital "Mount Massi". Now the "camera" will be in the hands of another character who visited the hospital some time earlier and, in fact, became the reason for the arrival of the protagonist of the first part.

Time goes by, and with it progress comes in games. The game has got another game engine - to replace the Unreal Engine version 3 came the same name engine of the new generation Unreal Engine version 3.5. As the stated minimum requirements, the same parameters as for the previous part of Outlast were used. This is a processor with a 2.2 GHz Dual Core CPU, and the necessary RAM, which has excellent characteristics, in 2 GB "weight", and a 512 MB ATI Radeon HD 3xxx graphics card or NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX. Free space from now on the game on your hard drive already requires 8 gigabytes.

At the mention of the game engine there is a genuine desire to say about progress. The game became more spectacular, so to speak, new contrasts were added. The color range of the game also does not make him not appreciate. Fixed bugs in the game plan. In general, the system requirements of Outlast 2013 release, in comparison with the receiver of 2014, have changed not so drastically, but still the experienced eye can always see the difference.

Trailers - the problem of most modern games

It is certainly not a secret that the global, all-inclusive problem of all gaming studios developing computer games is the discrepancy between the represented game trailers and the real game. This problem is easily explained, it is only worth thinking about the economic benefits for the company - it is much more reliable and appropriate for it to create around its "offspring" the areol of perfection, the veil of a higher level of graphics, detailing compared to its fellow industry. However, some companies decide on a more serious step - they represent part of the game process as a trailer. Of course, adding an additional schedule. But still this step is much more positive encountered by gaming fans.

Trailer - the best advertisement

Outlast, whose system requirements were dismantled above, decided on this. Well, you can no doubt conclude that it is the same game, the trailer of which almost fully justified the expectations of gamers. Atmosphere, entertainment, if you can say, the epic nature of the gameplay - all this was absolutely completely conveyed in the video. The same was seen in the game.