Cold Waters

Inspired by the 1988 classic “Red Storm Rising”, command a nuclear submarine in a desperate attempt to prevent “mutually assured destruction” when the Cold War gets hot and WWIII begins.

You will be tasked with intercepting convoys, amphibious landings, insertion missions and battling it out with enemy warships, submarines and aircraft. Thankfully, an arsenal of wire-guided torpedoes, anti-ship and cruise missiles and the occasional SEAL team are on board to keep the Iron Curtain at bay.

Support summary

	Support	Method	HUD
Widescreen:	Hor+	Native	Proper
Ultra/Super-Wide:	Hor+	Native	Optimized
Multi-Monitor:	Hor+	Native	Optimized
4k UltraHD:	Hor+	Native	Optimized

Rendered Cut-Scene:	N/A
FMV Cut-Scene:	Static Aspect

Game information

Game status:

Released

Release Date:

Monday, 5 June, 2017

Tested Version:

GOG 1.09e

Play styles:

Single player

Setting:

Military

Genre:

Naval Combat

Developer:

Killerfish Games

Links:

Website ⋅ ⋅ PCGamingWiki

Store Links:

Steam,

GOG,

Comparison Screenshots

4:3 Screenshot
16:10 Screenshot
16:9 Screenshot
Ultra-Wide (21:9) Screenshot
Super-Wide (32:9) Screenshot
Eyefinity / Surround Screenshot

Solutions & Issues

Baseline (Widescreen) Solution & Issues

Native support: Hor+

FOV: all gameplay cameras have extensive zoom range, but you may want to zoom in closer to torpedoes and missiles.
From the install folder navigate to Cold Waters\ColdWaters_Data\StreamingAssets\default\hud and open default.txt, look for the line
MainCameraFieldOfView=30
Change value to 20 or lower for extreme close-ups.

Tech: Unity
Display settings are stored in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Killerfish Games\Cold Waters\options.txt

Ultra/Super-Wide (21:9/32:9) Specific Solution & Issues

Native support: Hor+

Eyefinity / Surround Specific Solution & Issues

Native support: Hor+

Configurable HUD: Cold Waters\ColdWaters_Data\StreamingAssets\default\hud\default.txt

Under [HUD LAYOUT] there are basically 7 lines to modify:

BottomLeftPanelPos=
BottomRightPanelPos=
UpperRightStatusIcons=
UpperRightTacMapZoomReadoutPos=
UpperRightPeriscopeZoomReadoutPos=
UpperRightRecognitionManual=
UpperLeftPeriscopeESMPos=

The first 0 on each line is the horizontal position of the panel in pixels. To center the HUD on a 7680x1440 display, each Left panel must be positioned at 2560 and each Right panel at -2560. Don't forget to account for bezel compensation or custom UI Scale (divide screen size by UI scale to get the correct positions).

Outstanding issues:

Status Report and tutorial panel scale to the right and cannot be centered.
Underwater Particles are very large, can be disabled from the Video options menu.

4k UHD Specific Solution & Issues

Native support.

UI Scale: 1x-1.7x in-game, no upper limit in options.txt

hud size=0 in the file is UI Scale 1x in-game
hud size=14 is UI Scale 1.7x
hud size=20 is 2x etc.