Ethan Carter has send disturbing news about Red Creek Valley and now he's missing... investigate what really happened through visions, portals and communicating with the dead. Play as Paul Prospero in this horrifying mystery adventure and seek the truth in the most realistic visuals you have ever seen in a game.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Vanishing Of Ethan Carter in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Vanishing Of Ethan Carter. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 18.1 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 2.4-staging 64-bit
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 2.4-staging & 2.4-staging 64-bit
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Note: Selecting both 32-bit and 64-bit versions is necessary because the installation steps require selecting the version of Wine before selecting the 64-bit virtual drive
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 2.4-staging 32-bit & 64-bit are installed and you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: ethancarter
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select 2.4-staging
Click Next
Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Click Browse...
Select "setup_the_vanshing_of_ethan_carter_2.3.0.5.exe"
Click Open
Click Next again...
Click OK
Click Options
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Click Install
.NET Framework Error
Click close
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "AstronautsGame-Win64-Shipping.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Vanishing Of Ethan Carter
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "Vanishing of Ethan Carter"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 2.4-staging
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Installing Ethan Carter Patch
Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"
Select "path_the_vanishing_of_ethan_carter_2.4.0.6.exe"
Click Open
Click Update
Click Exit
Close Configure
Launching Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Select "Vanishing of Ethan Carter"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click Options
Click Graphics
Adjust:
- Resolution
- Display Mode
- Quality Preset
- Vertical Sync
- Texture Detail
- Anti-Aliasing
- Texture Filtering
- Field Of View
- Brightness
- Click Apply
Click Advanced
Adjust:
- Alpha To Coverage
- Motion Blur
- Ambient Occlusion
- Bloom
- Light Shafts
- Distortion
- Character Shadows
- Water Reflections
- Lightmaps Quality
- Materials Quality
- Detail Distance
Conclusion:
I was able to play The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter on all high settings with my GeForce GTX 950. Besides the white pixels everything ran really well. There are a few stutters because of streaming/loading parts of the level, but that is expected.
Gameplay video:
Screenshots: