What's new
Upscaling (#51). New choice in Graphics → Anti-aliasing → Upscaling (and live in the game: Insert → Image): Off, Quality, Balanced or Performance. The race is drawn at a lower resolution and FSR 3.1 or DLSS scales it up, for more FPS. The HUD and menus stay sharp. It needs Temporal anti-aliasing on. Tested here: DLSS 960x540 → 1920x1080 and FSR 3.1 960x540 → 1920x1080 in a race.
Motion controls (#18). The game's own Options → Controls → Motion sensor function (Pitch, Pitch and steering) now works with a gamepad that has a gyro, such as a DualShock 4 or DualSense.
Racer button layout (#99), as WipEout 2048 on the PS Vita: Controls → Button layout → Racer. R2 accelerates, L2 brakes, Square with left or right is that air brake, Cross fires, Circle absorbs. Menus keep Cross to confirm.
Menu songs (#66). Put songs in a menu subfolder of your music folder: they play only in the menus, and your other songs play in races.
From v0.2.45: Texture quality for 4 GB cards, Hide HUD (F8). From v0.2.44: fixes for a race loading crash and an 8-minute start, 16:10 resolutions, Quit game, Game music volume, Save data folder, Eliminator target up to 2000.
All features
New here? This is everything the port can do, from every version so far.
The game
- A native PC port: the game's own code runs on your processor, with no emulator. WipEout HD, HD Fury and 2048 are all in.
- Works with the US (CUSA07671, update 01.07) and EU (CUSA05670) versions. You need your own dump of the game from your own PS4. No game files are included.
- Correct game speed at any frame rate, and the shield, effects and camera shakes behave above 60 FPS as they do at 60.
- Saves work, and the launcher makes a backup of them at every start (Game → Save backups → Restore). The saves can have a folder of their own, for example a network share for two PCs (Game → Save data folder).
- Eliminator target up to 2000 points in Racebox.
Picture
- Render resolutions: 720p, 900p, Native (1080p), 1440p, 4K, 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 (16:10), 2560x1080, 3440x1440, 3840x1600, 5120x1440 (32:9, beta) and 5120x2160. On wide and 16:10 screens the HUD and menus stay 16:9 in the middle. 4K and the 5120-wide sizes need more than 8 GB of video memory.
- Windowed, Borderless or Fullscreen; VSync; HDR (when Windows has HDR on for your screen).
- Anisotropic filtering, sharpening (RCAS), and a switch for the game's multisampling.
- Texture quality (Full, Medium or Low): Low loads the largest textures smaller, about 1 GB less video memory in a race, for 4 GB graphics cards.
- Temporal anti-aliasing (experimental): FSR 3.1 on every GPU, and DLAA (NVIDIA DLSS) on RTX cards with one download in the launcher. Switch it live in the game: Insert → Image.
- Upscaling: the race drawn at a lower resolution and scaled up by FSR 3.1 or DLSS (Quality, Balanced, Performance), for more FPS. The HUD stays sharp.
- PS4 Pro mode (experimental): Graphics → PS4 Pro mode.
- F12 saves a screenshot. F8 hides the HUD and menus for clean pictures (also Insert → Game → Hide HUD).
Performance
- Up to 240 FPS. Frame rate limit 30, 40, 60, 100, 120, 240 or Unlimited, also changed live in the game.
- Performance overlay: FPS, frame time, GPU, CPU, RAM and video memory.
- Options for frames queued, shader loading in the background, the graphics card to use, and stream buffer memory.
Sound and music
- The game's music and its 3D sound effects. Game music volume goes up to 300% (launcher Music page, or Insert → Music).
- Your own music: MP3, OGG, FLAC, WAV or M4A files (subfolders too) replace the game's music. Launcher Music page, and Insert → Music in the game: pick a song, skip, shuffle, volume. Each song is leveled, and the songs follow the game: they wait during loading, fade out with the game's music, and a new song starts with each race (or the same song goes on, with Keep the song between races). Songs in a menu subfolder play only in the menus. Turn Play my music off for the original music.
Controls
- Gamepad, or keyboard and mouse. Every button can be remapped. Vibration strength and stick deadzone. With several gamepads, choose which one plays.
- Split-screen: a second gamepad plays as player 2.
- Motion controls: the game's own tilt steering works with a gamepad that has a gyro (DualShock 4, DualSense).
- Racer button layout, as WipEout 2048 on the PS Vita: R2 accelerates, L2 brakes.
Cheats (launcher → Cheats page)
- Unlock all HD and HD Fury events.
- Top rank in 2048 (rank 50).
- Unlock all ships: every HD and HD Fury ship and livery (Tigron too), and all 20 WipEout 2048 ships.
- Van Über team: the Van Über team in WipEout HD and HD Fury.
- VR ships outside VR: the VR HD and VR Fury liveries can be picked on a normal screen, once they are unlocked.
- The cheats only work while they are on; your save keeps your own progress.
Launcher and menus
- In the game, Insert (or R3 + L2) opens the port's menu: Game, Image, Performance, Overlay and Music tabs, and Quit game.
- The launcher in 13 languages. The game language list matches your game version.
- Mods: change textures, sounds and text without touching your game files, with a load order and presets.
- After a crash, the launcher shows where the log file is, for a bug report.
- Updates itself: a pop-up at start shows a new version and installs it with one click, and Check for updates sits next to PLAY.
- Desktop shortcut and Add to Steam (with pictures).
Not yet
- Linux: build from source (no package yet). No VR. No online play yet. Not every event is tested.
Download
New here: download wipeout-windows.zip, extract it and open WipEout.exe.
Already have the port: a pop-up at start shows the new version; click UPDATE NOW. Or click Check for updates (next to PLAY; on versions before v0.2.32 it is on the Advanced page) → Update. Your saves and settings stay.
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