You may’t buy Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast digitally on PC anymore, as a result of the Ferrari license expired and it was faraway from sale again in 2010. We stay in a merciless universe. The superb, fashionable racing recreation remains to be playable when you do personal a replica, nonetheless, and it simply obtained a fan replace that’ll make it run higher on trendy machines.
The replace, created by developer emoose, is a “wrapper DLL” and a substitute executable that ought to work with both the Steam or disc variations of the sport. The standout tweaks embrace improved reflections, borderless windowed mode, a UI that helps new side ratios, framerate fixes and improved loading instances.
Listed here are the full change notes:
Graphics:
- UI can now scale to totally different side ratios with out stretching (requires UIScalingMode = 1 in INI)
- Recreation scene & UI textures may be dumped/changed
- Permits disabling automobile LODs, lowering the ugly pop-in as they get nearer
- Mounted Z-buffer precision points that brought about heavy Z-fighting and distant object pop-in
- Lens flare impact now masses from right path without having to vary recreation recordsdata
- Stage objects comparable to visitors cones now solely disappear as soon as they’re truly off-screen
- Fixes sure results like engine backfiring which did not seem when utilizing controllers
- Anisotropic filtering & transparency supersampling may be pressured, vastly lowering aliasing across the edges of the observe
- Reflection rendering decision may be elevated from the default 128×128
Gameplay:
- Constructed-in framelimiter to stop speedups, framerate may be partially unlocked with recreation working at 60FPS internally
- Restored XInput rumble code from the Xbox launch, permitting gear shifts/drifts/crashes/and so on to present suggestions
- Xbox Sequence impulse triggers are supported and may be tweaked inside INI
Bugfixes:
- Prevents save corruption bug when remapping controls with many enter gadgets related
- Mounted C2C rating scoreboards not updating on Steam and different releases on account of defective anti-piracy checks
- Pegasus animation’s clopping sound impact will now finish appropriately
- Textual content associated to the now-defunct on-line service may be hidden
- Routinely disables DPI scaling on the sport window to repair scaling points
Enhancements:
- Recreation can now run in borderless windowed mode; mouse cursor will now be hidden whereas recreation is lively
- Load instances closely lowered by disabling framelimiter/vsync throughout load screens
- Music can now be loaded from uncompressed WAV or lossless FLAC recordsdata, in the event that they exist with the identical filename
- Permits intro splash screens to be skipped
- Music observe may be modified mid-race through Q and E buttons, or Again/RS+Again on controller (CDSwitcher have to be enabled in INI first)
If I might snap my fingers and produce a racing recreation again, it will be Coast 2 Coast. It’s artwork. To my thoughts it is one of the best OutRun recreation, and it will be great to play it on Steam Deck without having to purchase a bodily copy or to ask an older boy for assist first.
You may discover the most recent launch of OutRun2006Tweaks and set up directions over on GitHub.
