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DeathKeep

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DeathKeep
DeathKeep cover
Developers
Lion Entertainment Inc.
Publishers
Retail Strategic Simulations Inc.
Digital SNEG
Release dates
Windows 1996
Taxonomy
Series Dungeons & Dragons
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General information

Requires a workaround to install and play on modern systems. See Installing on modern versions of Windows.
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
 Coming soon.
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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 Coming soon.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Keys.sav[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2350540/pfx/[Note 2]
All settings other than key bindings are stored in each save file rather than being shared.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\DkSave**.sav[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2350540/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
Multi-monitor
 
Ultra-widescreen
 
4K Ultra HD
 
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw
Digital re-releases use cnc-ddraw 5.0.0.0.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology

Issues fixed

Installing on modern versions of Windows

Copy necessary files[1]
  1. Make a new folder. This will be the installation folder.
  2. Go into the DK folder on the CD.
  3. Copy DK.exe into the folder made in step 1.
  4. Go into the SYS folder on the CD.
  5. Copy SMACKW32.DLL into the folder made in step 1.
  6. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  7. Copy the contents of the MS folder into the folder made in step 1.
  8. Run the game with DK.exe.

"There has been an unhandled exception" error on launch

Full error message: "There has been an unhandled exception, so this application must close. Code: c0000005 Flags: 0 Address: 409f35 EAX: 0 EBX: 42ad10 EDX: 220" (or similar)
Use dgVoodoo 2[1]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Copy the contents of the MS folder into the installation folder.
  3. Run the game normally.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) 80486
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 3 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).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Verified by User:Garrett on May 11, 2017