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Revision as of 08:47, 4 October 2021

Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness cover
Developers
Amazing Studios
Publishers
Europe Ocean Software
North America Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
Windows 1998
Heart of Darkness on MobyGames
Heart of Darkness on Wikipedia

General information

heartofdarkness.ca - fan remake of official website with demos, trailers and concept art.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM DRM disc check.
Windows

Essential improvements

dgVoodoo 2

Fixes broken color rendering.
Support for integer scaling.

Peixoto's patch

Nearest neighbor or xBRz scaling.
Removes the black frame around the game screen.
Fixes some occasional color glitches that happen when the game updates the palette.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SETUP.CFG[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SETUP.CFG[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State 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
12 FPS cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Control options menus.
Control options menus.

Audio

Sound options menu.
Sound options menu.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Game not launching

Use Hode patch[citation needed]

Wrong colors

Use dgVoodoo 2 or Peixoto's patch[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows[1]
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, NT 4.0 SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 DX2 66 MHz
Intel Pentium 75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB (24 MB on NT 4.0)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 84 MB
Video card (GPU) PCI or VLB SVGA video card
1 MB of VRAM


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).

References

  1. Verified by User:Jofrie on 2018-01-21
    System requirements taken from the official Heart of Darkness manual.