Dear Esther 2.0

[jay pettitt]

It did cost twice what it should have though, since there's nothing to do but walk through the story.

 

It's kinda interesting the different reactions this thing gets. It seems either to be one or other of adoration, loathing or okay but whatever. Which I guess, in a funny sort of way, is the point.

 

There is no story. Only the suggestion that you subconsciously invent one. The what you 'do' in Dear Esther is on the subconscious level rather than the conscious one.

Edited February 17, 2012 by jay pettitt

[madman]

I'm having an issue with this game maybe you guys could help me with. I loaded the game, started playing. The graphics look great and I was enjoying it, then I decided the graphics didn't look QUITE right for my monitor, so I opened the menu went to the options and "Aha!" there's the problem it wasn't set to my resolution. So I adjusted it to 1920 x 1080, which is my resolution, and all of a sudden the screen goes completely black after adjustment. I waited a few seconds to see if it would maybe straighten itself out, no, I minimize the window and reopen it, nope no effect there. Closed the program and reopened, now I get a solid black screen with music similar to pranqsters issue. so I go and adjust the .txt file and reload it, it doesn't load in windows mode, and it opens to a black screen music in the background, hit escape it goes to the main menu but I can only see the ocean and the tops of the letters of the words. Uninstalled, reinstalled, no fix.

 

I'm lost.

[jay pettitt]

You could try tweaking

...\SteamApps\common\dear esther\dearesther\cfg\video.txt

[madman]

You could try tweaking

...\SteamApps\common\dear esther\dearesther\cfg\video.txt

 

sorry I wasn't more specific, I did try that video.txt, still nothing. I think I may just uninstall it and count it as a loss on my part...

 

 

EDIT: Honestly, I gave this up as a lost cause, but when you gave me the suggestion I looked around in the steamapps file, got annoyed cause apparently I know next to nothing about how to fix issues like this, so I uninstalled it, reinstalled it twice on the second install, it opened right up.

Edited February 19, 2012 by madman

[PranQster]

This is how I set mine... not to max resolution, but my next res down from it, 1680x1050 and fullscreen to 0.

 

"VideoConfig"
{
"setting.cpu_level" "2"
"setting.gpu_level" "3"
"setting.mat_antialias" "4"
"setting.mat_aaquality" "0"
"setting.mat_forceaniso" "4"
"setting.mat_vsync" "1"
"setting.mat_triplebuffered" "0"
"setting.mat_grain_scale_override" "1"
"setting.mat_monitorgamma" "2.200000"
"setting.gpu_mem_level" "2"
"setting.mem_level" "2"
"setting.mat_queue_mode" "-1"
"setting.defaultres" "1680"
"setting.defaultresheight" "1050"
"setting.aspectratiomode" "2"
"setting.fullscreen" "0"
"setting.nowindowborder" "0"
}