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Drakensang: The Dark Eye
Drakensang: The Dark Eye cover
Developers
Radon Labs
Publishers
DTP Entertainment
Engines
Nebula Device
Release dates
Windows February 27, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 75
IGDB 70
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Perspectives Third-person
Genres RPG
Art styles Realistic
Themes Fantasy
Series The Dark Eye
Drakensang: The Dark Eye on HowLongToBeat
Drakensang: The Dark Eye on IGDB
Drakensang: The Dark Eye on MobyGames
Drakensang: The Dark Eye on Wikipedia
The Dark Eye
Realms of Arkania (series)
Drakensang (series)
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav 2012
Memoria 2013
Demonicon 2013
Blackguards 2014
Skilltree Saga 2014
Blackguards 2 2015
The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes 2020

Key points

German retail version is not patched. All digital versions are.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Manual

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM.[1] High Resolution Texture Pack included.[citation needed]
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
ProtectDISC Software 11 DRM. Already patched to last version.[2]
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
High Resolution Texture Pack included.
Windows
Steam
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Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
Requires online activation
SecuROM PA DRM. English only. No Hi-Res patch included.
Windows

Demo

German demo is available here.

Essential improvements

Patches

Germany version only. List of patches. The Steam and English retail versions are already patched to the latest version.

High Resolution Texture Pack

Requires Patch 1.02 on the German version of the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Drakensang\profiles\default\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12640/pfx/[Note 1]
Edit profile.xml, which appears after launching the game and editing an option. Save the file but do not check read-only as this will cause a runtime error.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Drakensang\profiles\default\save
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12640/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings
Video settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Not all supported resolutions are listed in-game. See configuration file(s) location.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Can be forced via an .ini edit, see configuration file(s) location.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter or launch the game with the -windowed option.[3]
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
x2, x4
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Uncapped frame rate and refresh rate, no in-game frame rate cap.[citation needed]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Input settings
Input settings

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Camera sensitivity, as opposed to general mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
X-axis can also be inverted.
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, ambient, SFX, user interface, dialogue.
Surround sound
Stereo 2.0.
Subtitles
English and German, depending on language of game.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Background music continues to play and loop when necessary.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
English voices with English editions only.
French
German
German voices with German editions only.
Italian
Italian voices with Italian editions only.
Russian
Russian voices with Russian editions only.
Spanish
Retail version, download.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.Note: Profile requires an officially unprotected game, for example from the german magazine Computer Bild Spiele 8/2012.

Issues fixed

Game crashes when trying to play videos

Run the game with the -novideo parameter.

Other information

General settings
General settings

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7, 9 Gameplay uses Direct3D 9; FMVs use Direct3D 7.[4]
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Mods

The Eye of the Goddess

The Eye of the Goddess (Das Auge der Göttin) is a free mod that adds 20–30 hours of gameplay and takes place after the end of the original campaign. Available in German and English (German version is fully voice-acted). Download here.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1536 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT
256 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 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>/12640/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (12640) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References