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Fade to Black

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Fade to Black
Fade to Black cover
Developers
Delphine Software International
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS 1995
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Genres Action, Adventure
Series Flashback
Fade to Black on HowLongToBeat
Fade to Black on IGDB
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Fade to Black on Wikipedia
Flashback
Flashback: The Quest for Identity 1993
Fade to Black 1995
Flashback (2013) 2013
Flashback 2018
Flashback 2 2023

Fade to Black is a singleplayer third-person action and adventure game in the Flashback series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>

Video

Video options.
Video options.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 320x200, 320x240 or 640x400 available.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Aiming camera can be changed by pressing F9.
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Input options.
Input options.

Audio

Sound options.
Sound options.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and sound effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Toggle using CTRL+T.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues unresolved

Left and right audio channels are swapped (DOSBox)

Flip your headphones[1]

Issues fixed

CD speed check fails and music is not playing (DOSBox)

Skip CD speed check[2]
  1. Start the game with "-2" command line argument.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA, SVGA (VESA)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i486 DX2 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 17 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA, SVGA
Other 2x CD-ROM drive
MSCDEX 2.2
512 KB of VRAM required for SVGA.


References

  1. Verified by User:Antrad on 2022-22-06
  2. Fade To Black | DOSBox