Is there any way to disable the film grain effect?

Question

I understand that it's probably just there for the sake of making an atmosphere, but it just makes thing look bad in my opinion. I don't see any options to disable it from the games main menu.

Answer 1

Go to ~\Steam\SteamApps\common\Outlast\Engine\Config

Open up the ConsoleVariables.ini and find this string:

ImageGrain = 0.0

Just set the values as listed here for no film grain.

That should fix your problem, albeit I haven't tested it out.

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