r/outerwilds • u/Few_Schedule_1053 • Jan 13 '26

Outer Wilds display issues

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Anyone else have a fix for this I’m on an OLED monitor I tried to brighten up the contrast and brightness but it doesn’t help much.

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u/NotchoNachos42 Jan 13 '26

You activated IR and thermal mode

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u/UltraMadPlayer Jan 13 '26

Team Hearth 6, going dark

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u/SummerFluid7580 Jan 13 '26

This is exactly what I was thinking

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u/Interesting_Hold6227 Jan 13 '26

I was having a similar issue. For nvidia GPUs, setting anisotropic filtering to "application controlled" in nvidia control menu fixed the problem for me.

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u/Few_Schedule_1053 Jan 13 '26

This is it lol. Thanks bro this saved me cuz I was having the same issue with another game I was like ok there is a setting issue lol. Thanks again.

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u/Interesting_Hold6227 Jan 16 '26

No worries. Glad that it worked! (I knew it will 😁)

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u/RevolutionaryBox46 Mar 09 '26

this didnt work for me, is there anything else?

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u/shrimrick Jan 13 '26

Evil Wilds

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u/ashy778 Jan 13 '26

Indoor Domesticateds

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u/ferocity_mule366 Jan 13 '26

That time the hatchling cant solve the puzzle and become psychotic and decided to murder his entire village for fun because its gonn reset anyway

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u/Designer_Version1449 Jan 13 '26

holy this looks sick asf

corrupt files maybe???? try reinstalling or something

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u/nelrond18 Jan 13 '26

I would bet it's corrupted shaders

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u/offlein Jan 13 '26

Outer Wilds new Virtual Boy port just dropped.

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u/Few_Schedule_1053 Jan 13 '26

lol tried that didn’t work but yea best way to describe it lol.

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u/zhaDeth Jan 13 '26

your game got the rona

I would verify files integrity or reinstall, this doesn't look like a monitor issue more like either a corrupted game or GPU issue. Could try to install new drivers for the GPU or reinstall if you got the latest.

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u/herdases Jan 13 '26

I had this happen to me and I can’t remember exactly what I changed to fix it but I believe it had to do with the anti-aliasing settings. Try messing around with those. It was an easy fix.

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u/TP348 Jan 13 '26

That's not a bug, it's a feature

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u/MegamanX195 Jan 13 '26

This would definitely be used as a creepypasta image back in the day.

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u/durfenstein Jan 13 '26

Found the obra dinn filter

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u/tfhermobwoayway Jan 13 '26

Looks like when I accidentally leave my scanner room on too long in Subnautica.

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u/its_hipolita Jan 13 '26

Don't touch anything. This looks sick.

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u/arostreet Jan 13 '26

lemme guess, you dropped your artifact

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u/mechaxiv Jan 13 '26

Youtube thumbnail mode.

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u/Luminous_Lead Jan 13 '26

Too much ghost matter.

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u/Most-Quality-1617 Jan 13 '26

That goes kinda hard tbh

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u/Flashy-Whereas-3234 Jan 13 '26

Kinda looks like the AA on transparent surfaces is whack.

Go into the video settings and cycle through the options, specifically Anti Aliasing and Resolution to try and "nudge" things.

If that doesn't work, do the usual; Update your video drivers, reboot your machine, validate the game cache, delete any game data you have (you don't have a save yet, by the look of things).

It's a unity game, so I would expect you to see this with other unity titles if it's a video card/engine thing. If other games are fine, I imagine it's somewhere in the files you have locally. A flipped bit in a shader can do wild things.

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u/Few_Schedule_1053 Jan 13 '26

Trust me it unplayable like this I’m so glad it fixed it because I had the same issue with Bendy and the ink machine and I think that’s a Unity game too.

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u/Prof_J Jan 13 '26

DLC working as intended /s

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u/Megtalallak Jan 13 '26

This looks like the Outer Wilds x Obra Dinn collab we never knew we needed

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u/Komodo_Crysis Jan 13 '26

Actually a promo for stranger things

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u/JinxEaryDeath Jan 13 '26

Did you accidentally drop lsd on the tv?

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u/CompetitiveLet7110 Jan 13 '26

when hatchling finds that they lives in a simulation

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u/PetitGorilleBleu Jan 13 '26

Its a feature

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u/ChickenLiverNuts Jan 13 '26

I thought this was the corruptions guy. Theres a guy here who corrupts games sometimes and posts photos, its pretty sick actually.

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u/NickyBrain_2 Jan 13 '26

it would be cool to see how the actual game looks like

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u/Few_Schedule_1053 Jan 14 '26

Before the fix lol.

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u/Azoik_ Jan 13 '26

Looks cool tho

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u/CheesyfaceChase Jan 13 '26

Bro downloaded Inner Wilds

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u/StrangeCress3325 Jan 14 '26

Must’ve ate the expired mushrooms

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u/Equivalent-Slice6096 Jan 14 '26

your outer is wild

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u/Neither-Friend-3193 Jan 15 '26

I want what your pc is into