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The Dark Eye (1995)

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The Dark Eye (1995)
The Dark Eye (1995) cover
Developers
Inscape
Publishers
Atari Games
Release dates
Windows 3.x 1995
The Dark Eye (1995) on MobyGames
The Dark Eye (1995) on Wikipedia

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Does not work on modern Windows, see this fix

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows 3.x
This game is not available digitally


Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Runs in 640×480
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)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

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 doesn't work on Windows 10

Use "The Win 3.1 Fix Project"
  1. Download "The Win 3.1 Fix Project"
  2. Unzip the folder "The Dark Eye Fix" somewhere on your computer.
  3. Insert The Dark Eye CD, go to the folder on the disc called SETUP.
  4. Inside that folder is the file DKYINSTL.EXE, keep this one in mind.
  5. Open your "The Dark Eye Fix" folder and find the program otvdm.exe.
  6. Drag DKYINSTL.EXE from your CD into otvdm.exe.
  7. During install make sure to uncheck "Quicktime For Windows 2.03".
  8. After Install, go to the <path-to-game> you installed the game in.
  9. Drag DARKEYE.EXE into otvdm.exe and the game should start.
The game is made for 640×480, set your resolution to either that or 800x600 for full screen.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D
Executable16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.

System requirements

Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel i486 DX
System memory (RAM) 12 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM


References