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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter cover
Developers
The Astronauts
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows September 25, 2014
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on Wikipedia
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter 2014
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux 2015
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter VR 2016

This page is for the original version of the game. For the Redux version of the game running on Unreal Engine 4, see The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Key points

When buying the game, Redux version is automatically added to game library where game was purchased or activated.
Game runs and scales very well on most hardware configurations.
Stuttering in some areas due to texture loading.

General information

Official site
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Collector's Edition
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/258520/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/258520/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Launcher graphics settings.
Launcher graphics settings.
Launcher advanced graphics settings.
Launcher advanced graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.
In-game advanced graphics settings.
In-game advanced graphics settings.

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Input settings

In-game input settings.
In-game input settings.
In-game keyboard rebinding.
In-game keyboard rebinding.
In-game controller settings.
In-game controller settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

In-game language settings.
In-game language settings.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Spanish
Slovak

VR support

Issues fixed

Game crashes with CSAA enabled

Instructions

CLR20r3 Error

Instructions

Nothing happens after clicking Play / 0xc000007b error

Instructions
Instructions

Black screen when using Steam In-Home Streaming

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9, 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent AMD
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) 512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References