To get the elephant out of the room, yes I know this is the 2012 original version of Dear Esther, and yes I can easily play landmark edition and they are practically identical. But I got this version just so that I can experience the original source engine version to see how this would play in 2012 and look and feel truly rather than just watching a play through. Plus there are subtle differences in how the game plays and feels. Point is I don't want to argue about just playing landmark edition and want to fix some visual glitches for the og version I unfortunately have.

The first visual glitch I have is some, a decent amount, of candle sprites/particles appearing as black circles. The second one is how in the 4th map the water in the little pools looks white and bright including the water caustics. Also the distant clouds/fog have the same issue of appearing completely white rather than the subtle color they're supposed to be. And one of the stairs is just completely absent of lighting (fullbright.) It might be due to the specs of my computer (200$ laptop.) In other source games I have to put in launch parameters to get it graphically working such as L4D2 or black mesa. For BM I put in -force_vendor_id 0x10DE -force_device_id 0x1180 while in L4D2 I put in -force_vendor_id 0x10DE -force_device_id 0x0191. I’m not even sure what these do but they fix graphical issues for me. Maybe there is something like that for Dear Esther that can fix these graphical issues with the models and sprites. I’m assuming the game runs off a modified Portal 2 engine.