Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
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| Developers | |
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| Funcom | |
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| Aspyr Media | |
| Empire Interactive | |
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| Windows | April 17, 2006 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 75 |
| IGDB | 62 |
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| The Longest Journey | |
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| The Longest Journey | 1999 |
| Dreamfall: The Longest Journey | 2006 |
| Dreamfall Chapters | 2014 |
General information
- Official forums
- Official forums support section
- The Longest Journey Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability[edit]
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Retail | |
StarForce DRM (install Patch 1.64 to remove).[1] | |
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Released as pack-in game with LEVEL Magazine #159 in 2007 (Czech and Slovak Republic only). Contains Czech and English languages. | |
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| GOG.com | |
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| Steam | |
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Essential improvements[edit]
Patches[edit]
1.64 US[edit]
- Patch 1.64 is the latest patch for the game. Removes StarForce DRM.[1]
Skip intro videos[edit]
| Delete/rename video files[citation needed] |
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Game data[edit]
In-game general settings.
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\prefs.dat[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6300/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location[edit]
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\saves\[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6300/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing[edit]
| System | Native | Notes |
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| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video[edit]
In-game video settings.
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | Use jackfuste's fix. | ||
| Ultra-widescreen | Use jackfuste's fix. | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | Up to 4x. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
Windowed[edit]
| Running the game in a window[2] |
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Input[edit]
In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | Extreme mouse deceleration applied to camera control. The mouse must be moved very slowly in order to achieve the fastest possible camera movement, and a sufficiently fast mouse movement results in zero camera movement. | |
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Additional information | ||
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| Button prompts |  |
Controller button prompts are numbers. |
| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio[edit]
In-game audio settings.
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | 7.1 supported[3] | |
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| EAX support | EAX 3, EAX 4[4] |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| French | retail version only | |||
| German | ||||
| Norwegian | ||||
| Polish | Local retail version only. | |||
| Spanish | Retail version, download. | |||
| Turkish | Fan translation. Details missing—please edit this page and add it. |
VR support[edit]
| 3D modes | Native | Notes | |
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| Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey [Tweak Guide]. | ||
| vorpX | G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
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Other information[edit]
API[edit]
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 9 | |
| Shader Model support | 2 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware[edit]
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Audio | Miles Sound System | |
| Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements[edit]
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | XP SP2 | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz AMD Sempron 2800+ |
Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz AMD Athlon XP 3500+ |
| System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 7 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible | 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible |
- Supported AMD video cards: ATI Radeon 9550, ATI Radeon 9600, ATI Radeon 9700, ATI Radeon X300, ATI Radeon X500, ATI Radeon X600, ATI Radeon X700, ATI Radeon X800, ATI Radeon X1300, ATI Radeon X1600, ATI Radeon X1800
- Supported Nvidia video cards: Nvidia GeForce FX 5700, Nvidia GeForce FX 5900, Nvidia GeForce FX 5950, Nvidia GeForce 6200, Nvidia GeForce 6600, Nvidia GeForce 6800, Nvidia GeForce 7800
Notes
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 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>/6300/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (6300) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.