Remember back when games had cheat codes or console commands to allow you to cheat your way to winning? These days, you’re more likely to have to pay for the privilege of using cheat codes in anything but GTA. The Evil Within actually has these, in the form of old-school debug codes. But more than just for cheating, they allow you to unlock the game’s frame rate.
For some or other reason, the PC version of Shinji Mikami’s survival horror is locked to 30fps. Bethesda, however, have included a little bit of debugging to allow those of you sporting the hardware to take it to 60 fps and beyond. Here’s how.
To access the debug console, do the following:
- In Steam, right click on The Evil Within and select “properties” then under the General tab, hit “set launch options.”
- Put this in to unlock the console: +com_allowconsole 1
- Once the game has launched, hit the Insert key to bring down the developer console.
These are the commands you can use and some notes about each:
- R_swapinterval <NUMBER>
- Sets the FPS lock. Note that the numbers below are negative.
- -2: This is the default, set to 30 FPS. This is the officially supported frame rate
- -1: This sets the FPS limit to 60. Fully playable, although there may be quirks (we’re going to fix these).
- 0: This fully unlocks the FPS. We do not recommend playing above 60. We will not fix any issues above 60.
- God
- God mode. You are effectively invincible, and certain enemy kill moves will not be used against you (Laura, for example, will not jump on you)
- Noclip
- Allows you to walk through walls
- G_infiniteammo
- Unlimited ammo (provided you have at least 1 bullet when you enable this)
- G_stoptime 1
- Stops time. Note there is a bug right now where using this command causes a UI element to appear on screen. We’re looking to fix that in the near future.
- Re enable time with g_stoptime 0
- Toggledebugcamera
- Separates the camera from Sebastian so you can freely move around the
- R_forceaspectratio <NUMBER>
- Sets the aspect ratio. Default is 2.5, which is our official aspect ratio.
- 0 is full screen, but not ideal. 1.8 or 2 is probably most comfortable for those who don’t want bars.
- Com_showFPS
- Turns on id’s native FPS counter
- Startslowmotion2
- Slows down time
- Stopslowmotion
- Disables slow motion
While some of these may be the sort of things that’ll ruin the game, the 60fps frame unlock can only make it better, right? Right. There is no magical switch to get the console versions to run above 30fps.
Last Updated: October 14, 2014
Cadis Etrama Di Umar
October 14, 2014 at 13:32
Hey look PC guys, now you can be happy too
Hammersteyn
October 14, 2014 at 13:35
Yeah right, for about two seconds
RinceThis
October 14, 2014 at 13:52
And now they aren’t…
Alien Emperor Trevor
October 14, 2014 at 13:34
“the PC version of Shinji Mikami’s survival horror is locked to 30fps, even on PC.” What else would you play it on? ;P
Sageville
October 14, 2014 at 13:36
PC version is even locked on PC? Crazy neh!
Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim
October 14, 2014 at 13:50
LIES LIES AND LIES
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:51
You want fries?
Hammersteyn
October 14, 2014 at 13:53
Or SUPPLIES?
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:53
XD
Skoobaz
October 14, 2014 at 14:18
Pies?? I’m confused…
Hammersteyn
October 14, 2014 at 13:35
So how long before the forums is overwhelmed with people complaining that the game doesn’t run properly at 60fps
Cadis Etrama Di Umar
October 14, 2014 at 13:37
Day 1 obviously. These developers…or should I say crooks, are ruining the industry with their frame locking nonsense.
oVg
October 14, 2014 at 13:46
Its going to be exactly the same as last gen in 2007. The promises of the new SONY BRAVIA running native 1080p 60fps SONY PS3 games with most of the launch titles like Wipeout HD kicking the shit out of the 360 that can only upscale from 720p.
Then after a little time they realise that production budget can literally get halved by going back down to 720p 30fps. Hardly any games except for a few 1st party titles actually used the full potential of the PS3.
UBISOFT is right. Now that the consoles have their install base thanks to some very expensive production budgets for the likes of TLOU proving just what these consoles should be capable of.
Money talks. Expect all next gen games to be locked at 30fps 900p.
RinceThis
October 14, 2014 at 13:52
I don’t know, how long for OvG, oh, there he is…
Hammersteyn
October 14, 2014 at 13:56
bwahaha
oVg
October 14, 2014 at 13:39
So much for 4k.
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:45
Ah, I love dev codes!
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:47
Let the messing around, commence!
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:48
Some of my favourite “cheat” codes consist of in HL or HL2 or JK2 or JK3 spawning NPCs from both sides, AND HAVE THEM FIGHT IT OUT!!!
Viking Of Divinity
October 14, 2014 at 14:07
sv_cheats 1
impulse 101
this was my mantra many years ago.
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 14:19
Or just gimme gravity gun from the start, and I’m happy!
Spaffy
October 14, 2014 at 14:24
IDDQD
Doug
October 14, 2014 at 16:08
IDKFA
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:49
THEREISNOSPOON
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:49
NOCLIP
Alien Emperor Trevor
October 14, 2014 at 14:01
noclip must the the most useful cheat code ever.
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:49
NOTARGET
followed by NPC SPAWN xxx
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:50
For JK2:
NOTARGET
NPC SPAWN REBORN (times a few)
NPC SPAWN LUKE
Sit back and ENJOY
Admiral Chief 0
October 14, 2014 at 13:50
OR
NPC SPAWN LUKE
NPC SPAWN DESANN
Enjoy the fight!
loftie
October 14, 2014 at 15:52
I always played with the console commands for realistic light sabre combat (1hit kills with sabre, and if you get hit once you also die) and limb dismemberment set to 5. 😛
Matthew Holliday
October 14, 2014 at 15:58
you sound like the kind of guy whod enjoy toribash
give it a look
loftie
October 14, 2014 at 16:02
interesting, looks like QWOP 2.0 masters edition
Matthew Holliday
October 14, 2014 at 17:35
ive been playing the game since 2006.
has a pretty massive learning curve, but the freedom the game offers you is pretty exciting.
I actually feature in the trailer at 0:51 for the customization section.
definitely worth a look if you enjoy messing with console settings.
Ross Woofels Mason
October 14, 2014 at 15:06
Hey look what did I say, you could unlock the fps like every other pc game “capped at 30fps”
Johan du Preez
October 16, 2014 at 09:08
com_showfps it used to be cg_showfps looks like they spicing it up a bit 😛