This is a guide to help you with the inital setup you need to do when starting to run Stranger's Wrath HD:

1. To begin with, if you are running No Ghost or NMG categories, you will need to cap the framerate to 60 and display the framerate on your capture. The frame limiter in the launcher of the game doesn’t actually do anything. This means you will need a third party app to do so. The one I suggest to use is Riva Tuner Statistics Server. This allows you to cap the framerate of one specific program and also to display the framerate. You can find a link to it in the resources section under tools. The first time you’ll launch the program, you will only have the global application. You could use this to cap the framerate of Stranger’s Wrath but this will also apply to everything else in your computer. To have the cap applying only to Stranger’s Wrath, you will need to add the .exe of the game in the application list. To do it, click on the Add button and look for the game’s folder then get inside the bin and select stranger.exe.

From here you can simply copy/paste my settings, with these you will have the framerate cap set up and the display of the framerate enabled. (you can change the color and the size of the framerate display as long as it's still readable)

I chose to start it with windows, that way I don't have to worry about it at all. If you want to do the same, I recommend that you check the Setup section and make sure Start minimized is enabled.

2. If you haven’t finished the game on your computer already, had to delete your save folder, or whatever else, you might not be able to skip cutscenes. This is due to a file in your save folder that gets updated the first time you finish the game. But don’t worry, you don’t really have to finish the game. In the resources section, under saves there are 2 files you can download:

• The 1st one, from HuhnerSpeed, is the standalone version of the file you can download and put in your save folder.
• The 2nd, from me, is a save folder that contains the same file as the previous one and also saves made at the start of each individual level. Now you need to find your save folder. It will be located in Documents\Oddworld\Stranger’s Wrath HD.

Here, if you chose to download the save folder, you can delete the one you already have and replace it with the one you downloaded. If you went for the standalone file, you can simply place it inside your save folder.

3. Now the settings in the launcher.

You can set this up as you wish but there are things to keep in mind:

• You really need to to disable vegetation otherwise navigating the out of bounds will be much harder.
• For both Language and Audio you can pick whichever you want, none of them is faster than the others.
• You should disable pretty much every options if you want the most stable framerate (especially if you’re running Any% Unrestricted as you need at least 200fps to do the ghost glitch)

4. Let’s now focus on the livesplit setup. We use IGT as the main timing methode (it’s actually time without loads but whatever). To get the load times removed from your timer you will need to have the autosplitter active (you don’t necessarily have to use the auto splitting feature but the file must be active). To set this up, simply right click on your LiveSplit and select Edit Splits then search for Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath. Once you’ve selected the game, a line “Autosplitter and IGT for Steam and GOG versions of the game” will automatically appear.

Make sure to press the Activate button. Now you have the load time remover active. The last thing you have to set up is the comparison. Again, right click on your LiveSplit and go into Compare Against.

Select Game Time. This will pause your timer whenever you are in a loading screen.

5. As mentioned above, there’s an autosplitter you can use. It is very important that you have the correct amount of splits for the category you are running, otherwise the final split will either happen too early or never happen. But how to know how many splits you need? You don’t really need to know. In the resources tab, under the Splits section there’s a file you can download called Splits for the autosplitter. The file contains splits files for every category with already the correct amount of splits and the autosplitter set up. The splits already have names but you can change them if you want. The only important thing is to avoid adding or removing splits ! Also keep in mind that the autosplits are set up with the current fastest routes in mind. This means that depending on what you’re doing differently, autosplits might happen on weird spots or not at all.

6. Here’s a quick overview of the autosplitter if you want a better understanding of what you’re using. There are 4 main tabs:

• Full Game Categories:

You have to select both the category and the restriction of the run you are doing.

• Individual Levels:

Select the level you are running. There’s the possibility to enable multiple splits for some levels. The ones concerned by this have splits files already set up in the Splits for the autosplitter file in the resources section.

Extra:

(this screenshot is not up to date)

These won't be useful for speedruns but more for challenge runs. You can have a speedometer, deaths, hits and moolah counters. They will automatically show up in your layout once enabled if the game is running.

• Refresh rate of the autosplitter:

That’s how many times per seconds the autosplitter checks the memory of the game to see if certain events have happened. If you are encountering performance issues while running the autosplitter, you can lower the refresh rate but beware that setting up a very low value will result in less accuracy of the autosplitter and the load time remover.

7. Finally let’s talk about a tool you can use for practice. It’s called the F.A.R.T.S. Machine, it has been developed by HuhnerSpeed. You will find it in the resources section under tools. Once you’ve started the program and attached it to the game, those 3 settings will appear:

You can use invincibility and infinite ammo to make your practice more comfortable. The super jump won’t be very useful for practice, but if you want to look for new strats, this can help.

You are now all set up to make your first runs ! GL HF