The Outer Worlds is one of the best games of the year and it generally looks great, but those graphics contain a few quirks that seem to be holding the game back - rather than making it look better. Is there a The Outer Worlds improve graphics guide? You bet, you're reading it.
We'll show you how to remove blurryness in The Outer Worlds by getting rid of Chromatic Aberration, increase TAA, and applying ReShade filters to make the game look generally nicer - all without editing a single .ini file! Let's have a look.
The Outer Worlds improve graphics guide - remove Chromatic Aberration
Chromatic Aberration is one of the oddest graphical effects around, as it adds a colour distortion or slight blur to the edge of objects. Unfortunately this has the effect, especially in The Outer Worlds, of just making the game look completely blurry - when it doesn't need to be.
Chromatic Aberration cannot be switched off in the in-game menu, but fortunately there is an easy-to-install mod which can do it for you - at no cost to performance. Download it, extract it (it doesn't matter where to), and you'll see two folders - for the Epic and Windows Store versions of the game. Go into the appropriate folder for the version of The Outer Worlds you have, and run 'RunMe.bat'. It'll install the mod and the game will suddenly look much sharper.
The Outer Worlds improve graphics - increase TAA and other improvements
If you want a general improvement mod that'll increase and sharpen temporal AA, remove Chromatic Aberration and other improvements, give The Tweaked Outer Worlds mod a try. It'll generally improve all the graphics in the game with some simple tweaks, that shouldn't have any obvious impact on performance.
Just download the file and extract it to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ Indiana\ Saved\ Config\ WindowsNoEditor\ for the Epic version, or %LOCALAPPDATA%\ Packages\
PrivateDivision.TheOuterWorldsWindows10_hv3d7yfbgr2rp\ LocalCache\ Local\ Indiana\ Saved\ Config\ WindowsNoEditor\ for the Microsoft Store version.
The Outer Worlds improve graphics - apply ReShade for big improvements
If you want all these improvements but also want to apply ReShade for an even bigger revamp of the graphics in The Outer Worlds, head here to get the Terraformed ReShade mod. a new level of depth, color, visual effects, sharpness, HDR, and extra tweaks from the awesome ReShade installer.
Extract and copy everything from the 'Main Files' folder provided to The Outer Worlds\Indiana\Binaries\Win64, then launch the ReShade Installer & select IndianaEpicGameStore-Win64-Shipping.exe located in the same folder. The game's API is Direct3D 10+, then when ReShade asks you if you want any additional .fx files say "yes".
While in-game, press the Home button to open ReShade Menu Overlay, End key to toggle main effects, and PageDown key to toggle Depth of Field. Note that if you have any problems, you may need to rename the "dxgi" file that ReShade installs in theWin64 folder to "d3d11" instead. Remember, always remove ReShade files before installing new ones!
Enjoy a much better looking version of The Outer Worlds!
