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Darksiders
Darksiders	2010
Darksiders II	2012
Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition	2015
Darksiders Warmastered Edition	2016
Darksiders III	2018
Darksiders Genesis	2019

This page is for the original release. For the Warmastered Edition, see Darksiders Warmastered Edition.

Key points

Very few video customization settings.

General information

Darksiders Community Forums

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Steam		Bundled with Darksiders Warmastered Edition.

All owners of any Steam copy of Darksiders will automatically see the Warmastered Edition as part of their library.^[1]

The original Darksiders on GOG.com is bundled with the Warmastered Edition as a separate download^[2]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Stuttering fix

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/50620/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/50620/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.

Advanced settings.

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Windowed

Instructions

Instructions

Input settings

Keyboard rebinding.

Controller buttons.

Keyboard and mouse controls are disabled if a controller is plugged in.

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Audio settings

Global hotkeys (for example volume keys on some keyboards) are disabled when game is in focus.

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Localizations

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

VR support

3D modes	State	GG3D	Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision			See also Helix Mod: Darksiders (new 2016 fix).
TriDef 3D
iZ3D

Issues fixed

Steam achievements not unlocking

Steam achievements will fail to unlock if the game has already been launched on the current instance of Steam.

Instructions

Cutscenes do not play

Instructions

Game doesn't reach menu

Instructions

Game freezes at initial black screen

Instructions

Cutscenes are only visible on half of the screen

This can be caused by the MS13-057/KB2803821 update; reinstall the update to resolve the issue.^[3]

Instructions

Unresponsive controls, Controller buttons with keyboard

This is most likely caused by game detecting some of computers devices as controller.

Instructions

Instructions

Game causes system reboot when it crashes

Instructions

Black screen on multi-monitor systems

When playing on a system with multiple monitors, the game will default to fullscreen on the primary monitor. When the game is alt-tabbed out of and reopened, the screen will go black. Once there simply wiggle the mouse. Sometimes the game will go back to normal, and sometimes the game will crash instead.

Can't Alt+Tab with the GOG.com version

The game becomes very prone to crashing after Alt-Tabbing on some machines.

Instructions

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	FMOD
Interface	Scaleform
Cutscenes	Windows Media

Increase performance

As the game doesn't feature many graphical options, for lower end machines, this disables most of the game's effects.

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3, Vista SP1, 7
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ 2.4 GHz or better, Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0 GHz or better	AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Dual Core 2.60 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Dual Core 2.13 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB XP 2 GB (Vista/7)	2 GB XP 3 GB (Vista/7)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	12 GB
Video card (GPU)	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 NVIDIA GeForce GT220 ATI Radeon X1900 256 MB of VRAM	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 ATI Radeon HD3870 256 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/50620/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (50620) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[Proton_path_note-3] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/50620/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (50620) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: Darksiders

[2] Does Warmastered Edition includes original version? - GOG Community Discussions for the Darksiders series - last accessed on December 5, 2016

[KB2803821-4] MS13-057: Description of the security update for Windows Media Format Runtime 9 and 9.5 (wmvdmod.dll), and for Windows Media Player 11 and 12: July 9, 2013

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[Note 1]

[3]

@@ Line 165: / Line 165: @@
 |separate volume          = true
 |separate volume notes    = Sliders for music, sound, voice and videos.
-|surround sound           = false
+|surround sound           = true
 |surround sound notes     = Auto-detection, 7.1 audio is supported.
 |subtitles                = true

Developers

	Vigil Games
Publishers
	THQ
	Nordic Games
Release dates
Windows	September 23, 2010