You Are Empty

You Are Empty

Developers
	Mandel ArtPlains
	Digital Spray Studios
Publishers
	1C Company
North America	Atari
Engines
	DS2 Engine
Release dates
Windows	October 27, 2006

Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		StarForce 4 DRM.

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

Installing both official patches is highly recommended.

Instructions[citation needed]
Get PATCH_1_2.EXE and PATCH_1_SND.EXE from here. Install PATCH_1_2.EXE. Install PATCH_1_SND.EXE. North American PC release appears to have been already patched.[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\YaE\

config_engine contains engine settings.

config_user contains user settings.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\YaE\savegames\

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Requires version 1.2 of the game. For earlier versions edit %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\YaE\config_engine\ds2engine.cfg and set fullscreen to 0.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Some animations, such as crouching or enemy animations, appear to run at a lower refresh rate than the one currently selected (ie enemies appear to move at 30FPS at 60).
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Rendered image uses SDR color space. HDR option in config files refers only to HDR Rendering.

Widescreen resolution

There is a fix for 16:9 widescreen mode. It increases the player's FOV and fixes stretching of HUD and animated cutscenes. Comparison video.

Installation[citation needed]
Download the fix from here. Copy scripts_you_are_empty_widescreen.pak from downloaded archive to <path-to-game>\gameres\scripts\you_are_empty.

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions[citation needed]

Go to <path-to-game>\gameres\scripts\you_are_empty\. Open scripts_you_are_empty.pak with a file archiver like 7-Zip. Go into prototypes\actors\actor_player. Extract actor_player_design.lua and edit it with Notepad. Change the view_fov value from 90 to the FOV you want. Drag the file back into the archive and overwrite. This may cause the 1C intro video to not play and instead be replaced with a dialog box saying "Press Key...", which will persist to the main menu. It does not obstruct anything and goes away during gameplay.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse acceleration present.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Croatian				Fan translation, Download.
German				Fan translation by Mr.Duke; download
Hungarian				Fan translation.
Polish				Local retail only.
Russian

VR support

Devices	State	Notes
3RD Space Gaming Vest

Issues fixed

Game fails to create DirectPlay 8 Thread Pool upon launch

Error upon launching the game: CDPThreadPool::init failed to create CLSID_DirectPlay8ThreadPool.

Install DirectPlay

Intro videos and cutscenes do not work

Error upon launching the game: play_video: Material 'avi_logo' is not defines AVI-texture. Video cannot be played..

Install Microsoft Windows Media Video 9 VCM codec

Some onscreen effects obscure player's vision

When the player is picking up an item or taking damage the screen flashes for a brief period, completely obscuring player's vision.
Download modified files and extract them. Move gameres folder to game directory and override any existing files. Notes: Video guide on how to modify files manually.

Intro videos, animations and the game world updating at much slower rate than it should

Reboot your PC

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL	1.3

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon 64 2000+	Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon 64 2000+
System memory (RAM)	512 MB (XP)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM	256 MB of VRAM