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Darkest of Days
Darkest of Days cover
Developers
8monkey Labs
macOS (OS X) Virtual Programming
Publishers
Windows Phantom EFX
OS X Virtual Programming
Engines
Marmoset
Release dates
Windows September 8, 2009
macOS (OS X) December 6, 2010
Darkest of Days on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Key points

Requires the NVIDIA PhysX Legacy System Software to prevent crashing issues on Windows.[citation needed]
For OS X Lion (10.7) and later install the Version 1.06 patch.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Patches

The Version 1.06 patch updates the OS X version and makes it compatible with OS X 10.7 (Lion) and later.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\base\interface\controls.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\base\interface\user.cfg[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/37700/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\base\save\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/37700/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

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

Field of view (FOV)

This game uses vertical FOV. See FOV Calculator for help.
Use console command[citation needed]
  1. Bind ~ to console in the control options.
  2. Open console and enter set player.fov 60 command.

Input

In-game mouse/keyboard settings.
In-game mouse/keyboard settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
In-game gamepad settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Many keys, including backslash, Home, End, PageUp, and PageDown, cannot be assigned to commands, which places some restriction on arrow key setups for left-handed gaming.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse acceleration is enabled by default.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Called Flip Vertical Look.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Called Flip Vertical Look.
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Effects, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game crashes on new game or PhysX benchmark

Install NVIDIA PhysX Legacy System Software[1][citation needed]
  1. Install the NVIDIA PhysX Legacy System Software.
  2. Relaunch the game.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX 2.8.1
Cutscenes Bink Video 1.9a

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 768 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 9800
Nvidia GeForce 6600
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor (CPU) Intel, 2.16 GHz or faster
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon X1600
Nvidia GeForce 8600
128 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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