Drakensang: The Dark Eye

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Drakensang: The Dark Eye

Developers
	Radon Labs
Publishers
	DTP Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	February 27, 2009
Reception
Metacritic	75
IGDB	70

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

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		High Resolution Texture Pack included.[citation needed]
GOG.com
Steam
GamersGate (unavailable)		SecuROM PA DRM. English only. No Hi-Res patch included.

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.

Skip intro videos

Replace video
Download a blank .bik file. One can be found at http://www.geocities.ws/xbdvdrg/blank.zip Go to <path-to-game>\export\data\movies\ replace logo.bik with the newly downloaded file.

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)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12640/pfx/

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)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12640/pfx/

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 settings

Video settings

Input settings

Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings

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.

Other information

General settings

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7, 9	Gameplay uses Direct3D 9; FMVs use Direct3D 7.
Shader Model support	3.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz	Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.6 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1536 MB	2 GB (XP), 3 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	6 GB	10 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT 256 MB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce 8800 series
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0c compatible