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'''General information'''
 
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==Availability==
 
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Dark Fall: The Journal
Dark Fall: The Journal cover
Developers
XXv Productions
Publishers
Nordic Games
Release dates
Windows June 1, 2002
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Series Dark Fall
Dark Fall: The Journal on HowLongToBeat
Dark Fall: The Journal on IGDB
Dark Fall: The Journal on MobyGames
Dark Fall: The Journal on Wikipedia
Dark Fall
Dark Fall: The Journal 2002
Dark Fall II: Lights Out 2004
Dark Fall 3: Lost Souls 2009
Dark Fall: Ghost Vigil 2020

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260690/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260690/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Press f1
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Russian
Retail and GOG.com only.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP
XP, Vista (Steam)
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
1 GHz (Steam)
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
256 MB (Steam)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 3D Graphics Card
DirectX 9 (Steam) compatible


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References