Dear Esther: Landmark Edition For Mac



Dear Esther: Landmark Edition has been remade with the Unity engine, featuring a full audio remaster, and the addition of a brand-new Directors’ Commentary mode, allowing players to explore the island and learn what inspired the game and how it was crafted by The Chinese Room and Rob Briscoe. Requirements. OS: 10.7.5 or later. This is how DE:LE is running natively on SteamOS. As you may know there is no published Linux version for this version of the game even though it runs perfectly when paired with a Linux Unity. Dear Esther: Landmark Edition features a Directors' Commentary mode that allows players to explore the island and learn what inspired the game and how it was crafted by The Chinese Room and Rob Briscoe.

  1. Dear Esther Landmark Edition Comparison
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Developers
Publishers
Engines
Unity 5[Note 1]
Release dates
WindowsFebruary 14, 2017
macOS (OS X)February 14, 2017
Reception
OpenCritic67
IGDB64
  • 2Game data
  • 3Video
  • 5Audio
  • 6Other information
Dear Esther
Dear Esther2012
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition2017

Key points

A Unity remake of the original game.
Includes developer commentary.
Free for owners of Dear Esther on Steam.[2]

General information

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

Availability[edit]

SourceDRMNotesKeysOS
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Mac App Store
Origin Included with EA Play.
Steam

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition For Mac
SystemLocation
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREThe Chinese Room & Robert Briscoe @ LittleLostPoly.co.ukDearEsther
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/520720/pfx/[Note 2]
Only resolution and windowed mode settings are stored here. The rest of the settings are in save file.

Save game data location[edit]

SystemLocation
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam <Steam-folder>userdata<user-id>520720remoteplayerprefs.dat
Steam Play (Linux)<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/520720/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video[edit]

Video settings.
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Advanced video settings.
Graphics featureStateNotes
Widescreen resolutionHor+
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen See Ultra-widescreen.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowedDefault is borderless mode. See Enable fullscreen exclusive to change it.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Ultra-widescreen[edit]

Switching to the 21:9 aspect ratio[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>DearEsther_DataManaged
  2. Open Assembly-CSharp.dll with a hex editor such as HxD.
  3. Search for 39 8E E3 3F and replace it with 60 E5 18 40.
  4. Save the file.
  5. Edit the game launch options to include the -popupwindow parameter.
  6. Launch the game and choose the correct aspect ratio if needed.

Enable exclusive fullscreen[edit]

Use -window-mode exclusivecommand line argument[4]

Input[edit]

Input settings.
Keyboard mapping settings.
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Controller settings.
Keyboard and mouseStateNotes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remappingSee the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
DualShock 4 controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio[edit]

Audio settings.
Audio featureStateNotes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound4 and 5.1 speakers options.
Subtitles
Closed captionsClosed Captions and Large Captions options are actually for subtitles.
Mute on focus lost
Language settings.

Localizations

LanguageUIAudioSubNotes
English
French
German
Russian
Spanish

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specsSupportedNotes
Direct3D9, 11
OpenGLOS X only.
Shader Model support5
Executable32-bit64-bitNotes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements[edit]

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS)XPVista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4 GHz
AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 2.6 GHz
AMD A8-3850 2.9 GHz
System memory (RAM)2 GB4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT
ATI Radeon X1600 XT
256 MB of VRAM
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7770
1 GB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS)10.7.510.12.1
Processor (CPU)Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz Intel Core i5-3470S 2.9 GHz
System memory (RAM)2 GB4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9400
256 MB of VRAM
Nvidia GeForce GT 750M
Intel HD Graphics 4000
1 GB of VRAM

Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.3.6f1[1]
  2. 2.02.1File/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>/520720/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (520720) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

Dear Esther Landmark Edition Comparison

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-03-19
  2. Dear Esther Landmark Edition out tomorrow on PC, free to owners of original
  3. https://steamcommunity.com/app/520720/discussions/0/135509024342434554/#c135509314046293725
  4. https://steamcommunity.com/app/520720/discussions/0/135509024342482592/#c1291817837628534661