The Dark Eye (1995)

This page is for the 1995 game. For the unrelated series of games based on the "The Dark Eye" tabletop RPG, see Series:The Dark Eye.

The Dark Eye (1995)

Developers
	Inscape
Publishers
	Atari Games
Engines
	Macromedia Director
Release dates
Windows 3.x	1995
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	First-person
Genres	Adventure
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Horror

Warnings

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

The Dark Eye (1995) is a singleplayer first-person adventure game.

Key points

Does not work on modern Windows, see this fix

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

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"

Download "The Win 3.1 Fix Project" Unzip the folder "The Dark Eye Fix" somewhere on your computer. Insert The Dark Eye CD, go to the folder on the disc called SETUP. Inside that folder is the file DKYINSTL.EXE, keep this one in mind. Open your "The Dark Eye Fix" folder and find the program otvdm.exe. Drag DKYINSTL.EXE from your CD into otvdm.exe. During install make sure to uncheck "Quicktime For Windows 2.03". After Install, go to the <path-to-game> you installed the game in. 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

Executable	16-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