Drakensang: The Dark Eye

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Drakensang: The Dark Eye

Developers
	Radon Labs
Publishers
	DTP Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	February 27, 2009

The Dark Eye

Realms of Arkania (series)
Drakensang: The Dark Eye	2008
Drakensang: The River of Time	2010
Drakensang Online	2011
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav	2012
Memoria	2013
Demonicon	2013
Blackguards	2014
Blackguards 2	2015

Key points

German retail version is not patched. All digital versions are.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		High Resolution Texture Pack included.[citation needed]
GamersGate		SecuROM PA DRM. English only. No Hi-Res patch included.
Steam

Essential improvements

Patches

Germany version only. List of patches. The Steam and English retail versions are already patched to the latest version.

Skip intro videos

Replace video Download a blank .bik file. One can be found at http://www.geocities.ws/xbdvdrg/blank.zip Go to <path-to-game>\export\data\movies\ replace logo.bik with the newly downloaded file.

High Resolution Texture Pack

Requires Patch 1.02 on the German version of the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Drakensang\profiles\default\
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12640/pfx/

Edit profile.xml, which appears after launching the game and editing an option. Save the file but do not check read-only as this will cause a runtime error.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Drakensang\profiles\default\save
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12640/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Not all supported resolutions are listed in-game. See configuration file(s) location.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD			Can be forced via an .ini edit, see configuration file(s) location.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter or launch the game with the -windowed option.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		EXE can be edited via a third party tool.[citation needed]
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Can be forced via GPU driver.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		x2, x4. Uses a custom MSAA injector.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		On by default and cannot be turned off.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Uncapped frame rate and refresh rate, no in-game frame rate cap.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Camera sensitivity, as opposed to general mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		x-axis supported.
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

d==Audio settings==

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, ambient, SFX, user interface, dialogue.
Surround sound		Stereo 2.0.
Subtitles		English and German, depending on language of game.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Background music continues to play and loop when necessary.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				English voices with English editions only.
French
German				German voices with German editions only.
Italian				Italian voices with Italian editions only.
Russian				Russian voices with Russian editions only.
Spanish				Retail version, download.

VR support

3D modes	Native	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.Note: Profile requires an officially unprotected game, for example from the german magazine Computer Bild Spiele 8/2012.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Shader Model support	3.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz	2.6 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	6 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT