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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game

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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game cover
Developers
Martin Ivanov
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Engines
Europa
Release dates
Windows April 8, 2011
Reception
Metacritic 81
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Menu-based, Point and select
Genres Strategy, Wargame
Art styles Stylized
Themes World War I, World War II, Cold War, Interwar, Historical
Series Hearts of Iron
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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view strategy and wargame game in the Hearts of Iron series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Essential improvements

Running on modern systems

Install DirectPlay

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/73170/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/73170/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics Settings.
Graphics Settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Set through the launcher or by enabling 16-bit color mode in compatibility settings and then setting display mode to 1 from settings.cfg.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

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
Only through the in-game options menu. SFX/Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX-compatible
4 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/73170/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (73170) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Itsumi1117 on 2022-09-14
  2. Welcome to Games for Windows Marketplace - last accessed on 19 August 2022