Dear Esther

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Dear Esther
Dear esther.jpg
Developers
Engines
 
Release dates
Windows
February 14, 2012
OS X
May 15, 2012
Linux
June 10, 2013
Dear Esther at Steam Charts
Dear Esther at SteamDB
 Dear Esther at Wikipedia

General information

More information Official Dear Esther Website
More information Steam Community Discussions
More information Steam Users' Forums

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Developer website DRM-free
Humble Store Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Information The original mod release can be downloaded from here.

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Fix -novid

  1. Find Dear Esther in your Steam Library
  2. Right-click the game name
  3. Select Properties
  4. Select Set Launch Options...
  5. Input -novid
  6. Press OK and launch the game

Increase movement speed[edit]

Fix Bind key to increase movement speed[1]

  1. Open <path-to-game>\dearesther\cfg\userconfig.cfg
  2. Add the following code to the end of the file: 
    bind 1 "de_playerspeed 100"
bind 2 "de_playerspeed 200"
bind 3 "de_playerspeed 300"
bind 4 "de_playerspeed 400"
bind "W" "+forward"
bind "MOUSE1" "+forward"
bind "MOUSE2" "+zoom"
bind "MWHEELDOWN" "de_playerspeed 100"
bind "MWHEELUP" "de_playerspeed 200"
bind "MOUSE3" "de_playerspeed 400"
  3. In game, you can hold the left mouse button to move forward, mousewheel up to increase movement speed, mousewheel down to reset or use the number 1, 2, 3, 4 to adjust movement speed.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows
OS X
Linux ~/.local/share/dearesther/
Advantage This game supports the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows
OS X
Linux ~/.local/share/dearesther/

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Native Syncs save games.
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

General settings.
Video settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Native WSGF WS Gold.svg
Multi-monitor Native WSGF MM Gold.svg
Field of view (FOV) Native
Windowed Native
Borderless fullscreen windowed Native Display Mode setting includes borderless fullscreen windowed mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Native
Anti-aliasing (AA) Native
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
Oculus Rift Hackable Use the Vireio Perception driver.
High frame rate Unknown

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Native
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native
Controller
Controller support Native
Full controller support Impossible
Controller remapping Impossible
Controller Y-axis inversion Unknown

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native
Surround sound Native
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Native
Mute on focus lost Native

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native
Bulgarian Native Impossible Native Available here.
Simplified Chinese Native Impossible Native Available here.
Czech Native Impossible Native Available here.
French Native Impossible Native Available here.
German Native Impossible Native Available here.
Hungarian Native Impossible Native Available here. (Alternative)
Italian Native Impossible Native Available here.
Korean Native Impossible Native Available here.
Polish Native Impossible Native Available here.
Portuguese Native Impossible Native Available here.
Brazilian Portuguese Native Impossible Native Available here.
Russian Native Impossible Native Available here.
Serbian Impossible Impossible Native Available here.
Spanish Native Impossible Native Available here.
Turkish Native Impossible Native Available here.

Issues fixed[edit]

Purple and black broken textures[edit]

Information A generic fix for this issue can be found on our Source engine page.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel core 2 duo 2.4 GHz or higher Quad core 2.4 GHz or higher
System memory (RAM)
1 GB (XP)
2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
2 GB
Video card (GPU)
DirectX 9 compliant video card with Shader model 3.0 support. NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better (Pre-Sandybridge Intel graphics chipsets not supported)
OS X
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo Processor (2 GHz or better)
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000

References

  1. ↑ Useful Tip: Binding Keys/mousewheel for 4-speed variable walk speed!!