BlowOut

Key points

Game features a graphics setting launcher, but is disabled by default in the Steam version.

Suffers from significant performance issues on Windows 10. See Increase Rendering Resolution.

Introduction videos may not work on newer versions of Windows. See Increase Rendering Resolution.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com
Steam

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Go to <path-to-game>\video
Rename, move or delete these files:

infernal.mpg
intro.mpg
logo.mpg

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\system\blowout.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/719070/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savegame\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/719070/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud		Local saves only.

Video

Video settings launcher.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Vert-. Menus & UI are also cut off at the top and bottom. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Vert-. Menus & UI are also cut off at the top and bottom. See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		Vert-. Menus & UI are also cut off at the top and bottom. See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Increase Rendering Resolution.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See Increase Rendering Resolution.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Off by default. See Increase Rendering Resolution.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution

Modify blowout.ini

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open the blowout.ini file with Notepad or other text editor.
Change the values of gamePIXX and gamePIXY to your desired resolution.
Save the changes.

Menu and UI are cut off on the top and bottom.

Vertical FOV is reduced.

Increase Rendering Resolution

Play at 1080p or higher

Download dgVoodoo.
Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to <path-to-game>, where Blowout.exe resides.
Open the MS folder in the dgVoodoo zip and extract DDraw.dll, D3DImm.dll, D3D8.dll, and D3D9.dll from the x86 folder to <path-to-game>, again where Blowout.exe resides.
Open dgVoodooCpl.exe.
Make sure the Config folder / Running instance is set to <path-to-game>, it may already be there by default.
In the General tab, set Adapter(s) to use / enable to your current graphics card, Appearance to Full Screen, and Scaling mode to either Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio or Stretched, 4:3 Aspect Ratio.
In the DirectX tab, make sure Disable and passthru to real DirectX is unchecked, and set Resolution to Max. You can uncheck dgVoodoo Watermark if you wish.
Optional: under Texturing, set Filtering to Force anisotropic 16x and set Antialiasing (MSAA) to 8x to enable anisotropic filtering and antialiasing respectively. Under Miscellaneous, check Force vSync to enable vSync.
Click Apply and exit the program.

Also helps with game performance on Windows 10.

Opening videos now play correctly on newer versions of Windows.

Input

General control settings.
Keyboard rebinding.
Controller rebinding.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Referred to as "Aviation" style.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		You can only accept/decline menu options and skip cutscenes with keyboard.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Referred to as "Aviation" style.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		Triggers cannot be defined.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging		Game will be unable to recognize any new controllers.
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Choice between keyboard/mouse or controller.

Audio

General settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects and Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.6, see profile introdution. `Note:` Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, 2000, XP	XP
Processor (CPU)	733 MHz AMD equivalent	Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB+200 MB virtual memory
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4600 ATI Radeon 9800 DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device)		Sound Blaster Audigy
Other	4x CD-ROM	8x CD-ROM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/719070/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (719070) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/719070/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (719070) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

Developers

	Terminal Reality
Publishers
Retail	Majesco
Digital	Mirrorsoft
Engines
	Infernal Engine
Release dates
Windows	October 28, 2003