For a long time already, the minds of all world gamers were not excited by the terrible horror, which could cause both the desire to play it and the desire to quickly shut it down. The game Outlast, the system requirements of which will be described below, managed to achieve the above criteria, becoming the object of numerous jokes about its terrifying plot.
Good horrors require respect
And the plot is as follows: the journalist goes to a psychiatric hospital located in the state of Colorado in order to find out whether the rumors about the experiments conducted there on people are true. The presented sight was not at all pleasant. The horrors of this hospital will be presented as much as possible, be sure. However, we will not reveal all the cards, it is better to consider the requirements for the game, which it exposes to those who wish to play it. However, you 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, when compared with the rest. She can "go" even on very old computer models.
Outlast: minimum system requirements
Now let's look at what gamers with weak computers follow most closely - the minimum necessary system requirements with which the game will start. Immediately I want to give hope to those who did not even get into these parameters. The demands of most games are often often far-fetched. This observation even applies to Outlast, the system requirements of which were also slightly overstated. So go ahead, every computer can surprise you with its desire to allow the player to immerse themselves in the gameplay.
However, only official minimum requirements follow. Outlast will play on most operating systems from the Windows family: these are XP and familiar Vista, as well as the OSes 7 and 8, which everyone loves.
In case of possible problems with the launch, the problem is solved by changing the compatibility mode in the launch settings. The minimum processor announced Intel Core 2 Duo (2.2 Ghz), as well as gaining popularity AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+. The minimum RAM was 2 Gb, which is also not very much. The game will occupy a small 5 Gb on the hard drive of your computer. 512 Mb of video memory is required, and the following requirements are imposed on video cards: ATI Radeon HD 4870 or GeForce 9800. Well, and where without them - a keyboard and mouse are required to fully satisfy the system requirements in Outlast.
Recommendations
Fans of enjoying graphics in games will be more attentive to this section. Many players, having passed the game, are very unflattering about the fact that most of the computer’s system resources "go into oblivion", without significantly raising the level of graphics several orders of magnitude forward, but the improvements are, of course, noticeable. In general, details and a careful emphasis on them, as well as their drawing and truthfulness, causing genuine admiration for the players and allowing them to fully enjoy the whole atmosphere offered, are especially important for the horror.
In terms of the operating system, nothing should have changed, which is confirmed - all the same family of long-remembered Windows operating systems, as before. For processors, more serious requirements were made - to work at 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. Video memory is already requested as much as 1 Gb, the following requests are sent to the video card - GeForce GTX 460, as well as the widespread ATI Radeon HD 6850. Of course, the minimum, maximum, and any requirements include a sound card that is ideally compatible with the usual DirectX: 9.0c and DirectX.
Outlast System Requirements: Whistleblower
About six months later, the Canadian studio Red Barrels releases the so-called interquel of such a successful project - Outlast: Whistleblower. The scene of the gameplay is the same notorious Mount Massive psychiatric hospital. 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 passes, and with it, progress comes to the games. The game acquired another game engine - the Unreal Engine version 3 was replaced by the eponymous engine of the new generation Unreal Engine version 3.5. The declared minimum requirements were the same parameters as the previous Outlast part. This is a processor with a capacity of 2.2 GHz Dual Core CPU, and the necessary RAM, which has excellent characteristics, 2 GB "weight", and a 512 MB ATI Radeon HD 3xxx video card or NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX. From now on, the game on your hard drive is already requesting 8 gigabytes.
At the mention of the game engine there is a genuine desire to say about the promotion. 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. Gaps in the game plan have been fixed. In general, the system requirements of Outlast 2013, compared with the 2014 receiver, have not changed so dramatically, but an experienced eye can always see the difference.
Trailers are a problem in most modern games.
It is no longer a secret that the global, universal problem of all game studios developing computer games is the mismatch between the presented game trailers and the real game. This problem is easily explained, you just need to think about the economic benefit for the company - it is much more reliable and more appropriate to create an areola of perfection, a veil of a higher level of graphics, and detail in comparison with its industry counterparts around its "brainchild". However, some companies decide to take a more serious step - they represent part of the gameplay as a trailer. Of course, adding additional graphics. But still this step is much more positively met by game fans.
Trailer - Best Advertising
Outlast, the system requirements of which were discussed above, decided on this. Well, we can no doubt conclude that it is the very game whose trailer almost completely met the expectations of gamers. Atmosphere, entertainment, if you can say, the epic of the gameplay - all this was absolutely completely transmitted in the video. This was also seen in the game.