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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

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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.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter cover
Developers
The Astronauts
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows September 25, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 82
OpenCritic 80
IGDB 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives First-person
Genres Adventure, Exploration
Themes Detective/mystery
Series The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on HowLongToBeat
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on IGDB
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on MobyGames
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

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

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Additional step required to unlock Redux edition. See below.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Unlock Redux edition (GOG.com)[1]
  1. Refresh your account by visiting this link while logged in.
  2. Right click the game in your library and choose "SERIAL KEYS."
  3. Go here and enter the serial key from step 2 (not the whole link, just the key).

Essential improvements

Skip launcher

Create a shortcut to <path-to-game>\Binaries\Win64\AstronautsGame-Win64-Shipping.exe to run the game executable[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Vanishing of Ethan Carter\AstronautsGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/258520/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Vanishing of Ethan Carter\AstronautsGame\SaveData\SaveGame_0.sav
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/258520/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

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.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
16:9 letterboxing.
Multi-monitor
Use Flawless Widescreen.
Ultra-widescreen
Use Flawless Widescreen.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Vert-, from 70° to 120°.
Use Flawless Widescreen for Hor+.

[EDIT 11-30-19: Can someone who has played the game fix this entry? It makes no sense, as the terms 'VERT-' and 'HOR+' are meaningless in the context of altering FOV. They refer only to how the FOV changes compensatorily when *altering the aspect ratio*. For a given aspect ratio, if one is increasing the horizontal field of view, the vertical FOV is going to increase as well, and vice versa.]
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA, up to 8x MSAA, 8x CSAA, 8x QCSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Unlimited Framerate setting.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

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

Audio

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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Music, Voice, SFX, Ambience.
Surround sound
7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Use X3DAudio HRTF.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

In-game language settings.
In-game language settings.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
fan translation
Polish
Russian
1) Fan translation by «Tolma4 Team»
2) Fan voice-over by GamesVoice
Slovak
Use the unofficial Slovak language file, also contains localized textures.
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
vorpX
G3D, DirectVR
Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.
Headsets
SteamVR
Requires VR DLC.
Oculus VR (LibOVR)
Requires VR DLC.
Windows Mixed Reality
Requires VR DLC.
OSVR
Requires VR DLC.
Devices
Tracked motion controllers
Traditional controller
See Input for details.
Keyboard/Mouse
[2]
Play area
Seated
Standing
Room-scale

Issues fixed

Game crashes with CSAA enabled

Select another type of anti-aliasing[citation needed]
CSAA has been removed from Nvidia Maxwell architecture GPUs.

CLR20r3 Error

Download the config files[3]
  1. Download the config files and extract them.
  2. Place them in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Vanishing of Ethan Carter\.

Notes

Do not click Restore to Defaults in the game's launcher as it may remove configuration files.

Nothing happens after clicking Play / 0xc000007b error

Reinstall d3dx9_43.dll[4]
  1. Remove d3dx9_43.dll from both %WINDIR%\System32 and %WINDIR%\SysWOW64.
  2. Download DirectX End-User Runtime and install it.

Notes

Make sure to disable installing of Bing bar in one.
Use older Visual C++ runtime libraries[3]
  1. Download older Visual C++ runtime libraries and extract them.
  2. Place all of the extracted DLLs in <path-to-game>\Binaries\Win64.

Black screen when using Steam In-Home Streaming

Select fullscreen windowed in the launcher instead of fullscreen[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9, 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit used by default if 64-bit OS is detected.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo
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 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/258520/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (258520) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References