Firewatch

Two Forks, Wyoming: come for the solitude... stay for the mystery. The story of a middle-aged man settling in a fire lookout tower for summer, told in snippets of hiking and chatting over the radio.

Support summary

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

Rendered Cut-Scene:	Hor+
FMV Cut-Scene:	Hor+

Game information

Game status:

Released

Release Date:

Tuesday, 9 February, 2016

Tested Version:

Steam

Play styles:

Single player

Setting:

Outdoors

Genre:

Adventure (misc)

Developer:

Campo Santo

Links:

Website ⋅ Wikipedia ⋅ PCGamingWiki

Store Links:

Steam,

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 Hor+ support.

There is no in-game FOV setting but the developers revealed how to edit the FOV through the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CampoSanto\Firewatch\fovAdjust_h2041137991

Right click on fovAdjust_h2041137991 and choose Modify. Set the base to be Decimal.

Our default FOV is 55. Set the value to be 100 times the amount you want to adjust the FOV by. For example, if you wanted the FOV to be 90 you need to increase the FOV by 35. So the value of fovAdjust_h2041137991 should be 3500 (35 * 100).

If you wanted the FOV to be 45, you would be removing 10, so set the value to be -1000.

This is the VFOV of a natively Hor+ game, so 90 seems a bit extreme.

In 16:9 VFOV 55 means HFOV is roughly 85. To bump up the HFOV to 100 you want VFOV 68, so...
68 - 55 = 13
13 * 100 = 1300
...set the decimal value of fovAdjust_h2041137991 to 1300.

A custom FOV applies equally to the gameplay (including zoom) and cut-scenes. The main menu's backdrop is unaffected.
Disposable camera view is Hor+ because the 16:9 vignette shrinks to adjust to lower aspects.
The resulting pictures are always stored as 2960x1944 jpegs in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\CampoSanto\Firewatch\saves\Photos\

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

Native Hor+ support. In fact all aspects wider than 16:9 are labelled '21:9' in the list of available resolutions.

Disposable camera view is Hor+.

Eyefinity / Surround Specific Solution & Issues

Native Hor+ support with minor UI issues.

Menus are magnified and span the whole display.
Graphics Quality settings are cut-off, switch to a narrower resolution to adjust.
The HUD spans. Timed 'reply' icon scales to the left, 'report finding" icon scales to the right.
Disposable camera view is Hor+.

4k UHD Specific Solution & Issues

Native support.