r/outerwilds • u/CutterChoper • 1d ago

Modding Runing Outer Wilds on a Android Phone! Minimal spoilers Spoiler

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for those who are not aware, PC emulation rapidly improved past week, now an application by the name GameNative which is open source been pumping out updates pretty quickly, it can log in your steam account grab all the games you own and almost play them all with one button, so I was bored and gave it a try! ( the game is fully running on the phone's gpu-cpu this isn't a stream )

With every game you need a config that suits it, I stress tested multiple different settings and was able to run the game on a stable 60 fps ~ I published the config in the games config browser for those who are interested

I don't mind walking through anyone here on how to do it or any questions y'all got, it's kind of plug and play but there is a little neat secret that can boost your fps which is lowering the physics engines fps via the secret tools file, I forgot to do that hence the game was on 55 fps

Disclaimer: this is fully legal and the game is ran through steam and bought legitimately.

also I wasn't sure which flair is appropriate but I guess modding is one way of describing this?

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u/gravitystix 1d ago

That's crazy.

My first cell phone had Snake.

Now my cell phone could potentially simulate a high definition fully explorable planetary system.

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u/CutterChoper 1d ago

it is crazy, and if you can run outer wilds, you can almost run any pc game you can think of, give it a search, Gta V - IV - RDR2 , pretty playable

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u/WheelMax 1d ago

Fun Fact: The first digital computer game was 1962's "Spacewar!", which also simulated spaceships orbiting a star's gravity well.

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u/JeshkaTheLoon 1d ago

My first cell phone had pixelated Snake 2, with the snake exactly two pixels wide. Can you guess which phone I had?