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Darksiders

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Darksiders
Darksiders cover
Developers
Vigil Games
Publishers
THQ
Nordic Games
Release dates
Windows September 23, 2010
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Darksiders on Wikipedia
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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

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
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GOG.com
DRM-free
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Steam
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Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

300px
General settings

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Input settings

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

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.[1]
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Game causes system reboot when it crashes

Instructions

Game will not run in windowed mode

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

Instructions
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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References