Looks terrible in motion on a 120hz G-sync display.

[tastethecourage]

Constant stuttering at all resolutions. I tried "unlocking" the framerate and that didn't help much either. It's an eye sore.

Anyone else experience the same?

PS - Comments like "lulz looks fine to me, ur monitor must suck" aren't constructive.

[Fenr]

-window-mode exclusive

I put that to launch parameters and it completely fixed the stuttering for me. Hope it helps.

[tastethecourage]

Originally posted by Fenr:

-window-mode exclusive

I put that to launch parameters and it completely fixed the stuttering for me. Hope it helps.

Thanks, I'll try it out.

[كريس]

I believe the physics in the game is locked to 60hz, probably because The Outer Wilds has the most technically complex and sophisticated physical environment ever created in a game.

The "making of" video explains this.

[Khamas Tunnel]

I am having the same issue T_T

[YOYO]

Is it happening constantly for you? For me the game is sometimes having a hiccup and recovers afterwards

[Nathan]

So there is a way to force this:

In your C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Mobius Digital\Outer Wilds directory, create a new .txt file called secretsettings.txt in that file, add the line PhysicsRate=120 , or instead of 120 whatever your target framerate is save the file, close it, and re-launch the game.

This functionality is hidden because easily allowing players to modify this can cause many issues on lower end machines. Try this out and see if it works for you.

Thanks

[Hadley333]

Originally posted by tastethecourage:

Originally posted by Fenr:

-window-mode exclusive

I put that to launch parameters and it completely fixed the stuttering for me. Hope it helps.

Thanks, I'll try it out.

Did this work? I’m ready to refund this mess

[tastethecourage]

Originally posted by Hadley333:

Originally posted by tastethecourage:

Thanks, I'll try it out.

Did this work? I’m ready to refund this mess

Slight improvement, but no -- it didn't really resolve the issue for me. I'm glad it did for him though.

[kokolihaluumu]

Had to refund for this. Game runs at 100fps but feels like 20fps, with mouse or gamepad. Not playable

[MyuniHausen]

The game uses the 'microstutter' ... pardon, 'unity'-engine. That's the culprit, no way fixing it.
It's a shame, for the game is great.

[ultramage]

Can you switch your graphics card profile to 60hz for this game, as a last resort workaround? Instead of insisting on forcing it to run at 120/144 and causing it to break. Just curious.

It's also interesting that after a year of being on the Epic store, none of the people that bought it apparently had a high-framerate screen. Or that so few people bought it there (due to lower overall number of users) that it never got thoroughly tested. Now suddenly all these 'new' bugs are showing up. I guess at least it's good that the game runs correctly on the base pc spec.

[Hadley333]

Originally posted by ultramage:

Can you switch your graphics card profile to 60hz for this game, as a last resort workaround? Instead of insisting on forcing it to run at 120/144 and causing it to break. Just curious.

It's also interesting that after a year of being on the Epic store, none of the people that bought it apparently had a high-framerate screen. Or that so few people bought it there (due to lower overall number of users) that it never got thoroughly tested. Now suddenly all these 'new' bugs are showing up. I guess at least it's good that the game runs correctly on the base pc spec.

Epic is the perfect launcher for those that don’t want reviews or convenient discussion boards on these issues

[Darktalon]

Using -window-mode exclusive to force exclusive fullscreen, capping my framerate to 120 fps with rivatuner, and using secretsettings.txt to set PhysicsRate=120, completely fixed my game.

Make sure you dont create an RTF file and then rename it to txt, or it will have hidden stuff that will make it not work which was my issue the first time. I used notepad++ to see it and create just the one line in my txt file and it worked.

Also turn down Shadow quality from very high to high. Using a 2080 TI, that allowed me to mostly always hit 120 fps.

[ComradeSnarky]

Originally posted by Hadley333:

Originally posted by ultramage:

Can you switch your graphics card profile to 60hz for this game, as a last resort workaround? Instead of insisting on forcing it to run at 120/144 and causing it to break. Just curious.

It's also interesting that after a year of being on the Epic store, none of the people that bought it apparently had a high-framerate screen. Or that so few people bought it there (due to lower overall number of users) that it never got thoroughly tested. Now suddenly all these 'new' bugs are showing up. I guess at least it's good that the game runs correctly on the base pc spec.

Epic is the perfect launcher for those that don’t want reviews or convenient discussion boards on these issues

100%.

[turtle]

Originally posted by Darktalon:

Using -window-mode exclusive to force exclusive fullscreen, capping my framerate to 120 fps with rivatuner, and using secretsettings.txt to set PhysicsRate=120, completely fixed my game.

Make sure you dont create an RTF file and then rename it to txt, or it will have hidden stuff that will make it not work which was my issue the first time. I used notepad++ to see it and create just the one line in my txt file and it worked.

Also turn down Shadow quality from very high to high. Using a 2080 TI, that allowed me to mostly always hit 120 fps.

Can confirm this works 100% (as long as you can maintain target framerate)