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Daemonica

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Daemonica
Daemonica cover
Developers
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
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Daemonica on Wikipedia

General information

Offical Website

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
English and German releases.
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce DRM in Polish and Russian releases.
Windows

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
Windows <path-to-game>\Data[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\savedgames[Note 1]

Video

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
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
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
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
  1. Download WineD3D here and unpack it.
  2. Copy d3d9.dll and wined3d.dll into the game folder (where the .exe is).
  3. Now you can start the game without problems.

Alternatively:

Edit daemonica.cfg

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
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
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
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. 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

  1. Error codes of the engine (German) - last accessed on 2021-01-23
  2. Error codes of the engine (English) - last accessed on 2021-03-18
  3. Microsoft error codes - last accessed on 2021-01-23