Blair Witch

Blair Witch

Developers
	Bloober Team
Publishers
	Lionsgate Games
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	August 30, 2019
Reception
Metacritic	69
OpenCritic	68
IGDB	73
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Adventure
Themes	Contemporary, North America, Detective/mystery, Horror
Series	Blair Witch

Blair Witch
Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr	2000
Blair Witch Volume 2: The Legend of Coffin Rock	2000
Blair Witch Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale	2000
Blair Witch	2019

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Only available in DACH countries. Contains 2 DVDs.
Epic Games Store
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Microsoft Store
Oculus Store		VR Edition
Steam

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Original Soundtrack
The Art of Blair Witch	Artbook

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename the video files
Go to <path-to-game>\Blairwitch\Content\Movies\. Delete or rename LoadingScreen.mp4 and TotemLoop.mp4.

4K Remastered Pre-Rendered Cutscenes [H264/HEVC]

Upscaled the original cutscenes to 4K, encoded to H264 and HEVC. Also offers 1440p versions. Steam Guide
Use H264 for weaker CPUs, but the file sizes will be somewhat larger. Use HEVC to save space, but requires stronger CPU.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Blairwitch\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\3951BlooberTeamS.A.BlairWitch_myqva651hxz16\LocalCache\Local\Blairwitch\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1092660/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Blairwitch\Saved\SaveGames\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1092660/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Display settings

Advanced graphics settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Pillarboxed at 3440x1440, Vert- at 2560x1080. Use the related community tools.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		70-80°, part of the Gameplay settings. Use this tool for more degrees of FOV.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA and TXAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Post-processing

Disable depth of field through the config file
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open Engine.ini in a text editor. Add the following lines: [SystemSettings] r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0

Disable chromatic aberration
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open Engine.ini in a text editor. Add the following lines: [SystemSettings] r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0

Disable film grain
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open Engine.ini in a text editor. Add the following lines: [SystemSettings] r.Tonemapper.Quality=3

Input

Controls settings

Keyboard and Mouse controls

Controller actions

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration		No acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers
DualShock button prompts
Light bar support		Static blue
Connection modes	V1, Wired

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Can be disabled.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio Menu

Gameplay settings

Screenshot showing subtitles with speaker names and text background enabled.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Music, SFX, Voice overs.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Options for size, style, color and character names display.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic				Fan translation by AR Team, download.
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Hungarian				Fan translation.
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Blairwitch- 3D-Vision-WIP-Fix - Losti - V0.01.
vorpX		G3D, Z3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see release update 19.2.4

Issues fixed

Black screen after starting a new game

(Windows N editions) Download and install the appropriate version of the Media Feature Pack and reboot the PC

Game crashes during startup

See Bypass OpenSSL SHA bug on Intel 10th gen and later CPUs.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-3220 3.3 GHz AMD A8-7600 3.1 GHz	Intel Core i5-6500 3.2 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 1600
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	16 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti AMD Radeon R7 265 DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon RX 590
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 11 compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.