Anyone played Outcast?

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I can't get it to run anymore now im on xp which is a shame, anyone managed to get it working?

I thought it was a great game in its day, it did have a low resolution even for its time but it was quite a lot of fun, it used a weird voxel engine that gave it smooth terrain, the sounds and music were quite good and atmospheric.

I remember there was going to be a second game which was in development but it got cancelled sadly.

 

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Yeah definitely underrated for its time, the engine really did give a nice organic look to the landscapes, the resolution was pretty terrible though but i guess thats because of the lack of acceleration, i made a simple tweak for higher res but it was horribly slow, im sure my pc could handle it now, wish i could get it to run.

 

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Amazing music, gfx were ok for the time and can be modded via the .ini file the game installs to give higher res.

You need to get all the patches for this as the original UK retail version had a bugged installer which refused to run on a lot of CD/DVD drives.

The installer patch lets you install it properly then patch#2 allows the game to find the disc in the drive & run properly.

Theres only a patch 3 now which did install fine but the game wouldn't load past the intro video.

If i do ever get it running i forgot exactly what the best way was to increase resolution?