Daemonica
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Developers | |
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RA Images | |
Cinemax | |
Publishers | |
North America | Meridian4 |
Czech Republic | Cinemax |
Russia | Akella |
Germany | Frogster Interactive Pictures AG |
Engines | |
3D GameStudio A6 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | May 13, 2005 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Genres | Adventure |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Detective/mystery, Medieval, Supernatural |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | English and German releases. | |||
Retail | StarForce DRM in Polish and Russian releases. |
Demo
Links for English demo and German demo.
Patch
The patch 1.1 (for the English version only!) is available here.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Data[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Data\savedgames[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Locked to 4:3. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Isometric view. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Can be set in daemonica.cfg. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | Can be set in daemonica.cfg. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Can be set in daemonica.cfg. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Isometric view, all texts are written in text boxes. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | Only cutscenes have voice acting. | |||
Czech | ||||
German | Only cutscenes have voice acting. | |||
Polish | Retail only. Details | |||
Russian |
Issues fixed
Crash on startup
When the game crashes on startup with the message Error E2000: D3D Error: D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE,[1][2][3] or with the error Malfunction W-2113929204: Unnamed Error no. -2113929204 (the error hash is {289a12fb-10fd-bb5b-3edc-4567046643a5}), then apply the following fix. This is a DirectX-error.
Use WineD3D |
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Alternatively:
Edit daemonica.cfg |
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Another suggested fix includes editing the daemonica.cfg. in the \Data folder, read here for more info. This has not been tested. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9.0c |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | Executes via maindata.dae, which is an exe with a changed file type (.dae). Maindata.dae gets called with parameters by daemonica.exe (-nc -nx 200, and -langger for German version). |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 98, ME, 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Pentium, 1 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 700 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 2 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).
References
- ↑ Error codes of the engine (German) - last accessed on 2021-01-23
- ↑ Error codes of the engine (English) - last accessed on 2021-03-18
- ↑ Microsoft error codes - last accessed on 2021-01-23