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Revision as of 03:16, 13 November 2018

Blacklight: Retribution
Blacklight: Retribution cover
Developers
Zombie Studios
Hardsuit Labs
Publishers
Perfect World Entertainment
Hardsuit Labs
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows April 3, 2012
Blacklight: Retribution on Wikipedia
Blacklight
Blacklight: Tango Down 2010
Blacklight: Retribution 2012

Key points

Free to play.
Heavy frame rate drops and low GPU utilisation on Intel-based systems with Hyper-Threading enabled.[citation needed]

General information

Official game site
Blacklight Wiki - A detailed wiki for the Blacklight series
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
All versions require a Perfect World or Arc Games Account.

DLC and expansion packs

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches for this game should be downloaded and installed automatically when the game is run after a patch has been released. Note that this requires an internet connection - you will not be able to play online without having the most recent patch If the automatic patching doesn't work, you can manually download the patches here.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\FoxGame\Config\PCConsole\Cooked[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/209870/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/209870/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Approx. 954 MB available.

Video settings

In-game graphics Normal settings.
In-game graphics Normal settings.
In-game graphics Advanced settings.
In-game graphics Advanced settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

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

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Japanese
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Private Servers run on the official servers.
Direct IP

VR support

3D modes State GG3D Notes
TriDef 3D

Issues fixed

Game won't start

If the game gives you an "Crash Report" message after you press the "Play" button in the launcher try to update your GPU Driver
If the game refuses to start with no error message try updating DirectX.
Install DirectX[citation needed]
  1. Install the DirectX End-User Runtimes.
  2. Try running the game again.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9, 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 8.1
Processor (CPU) Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8xxx
AMD Radeon HD 2xxx
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible sound card

Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References