Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Developers

	Funcom
Publishers
	Aspyr Media
	Empire Interactive
Engines
	Shark 3D
Release dates
Windows	April 17, 2006
Reception
Metacritic	75
IGDB	62

The Longest Journey
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
Retail		StarForce DRM (install Patch 1.64 to remove).^[1]
Gamesplanet
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

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]} Go to `<path-to-game>\bin\res\video\` Delete or rename `alienware_logo.bik`, `ati_logo.bik`, `creative_sbosb.bik`, `funcom.bik` and `publisher.bik`.

Delete/rename video files^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>\bin\res\video\
Delete or rename alienware_logo.bik, ati_logo.bik, creative_sbosb.bik, funcom.bik and publisher.bik.

Game data[edit]

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
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
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
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video[edit]

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
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] Go to the installation folder. Open `prefs.dat` with Notepad. Change the line with `fullscreen 1` to `fullscreen 0`. Save the file and launch the game.

Running the game in a window^[2]

Go to the installation folder.
Open prefs.dat with Notepad.
Change the line with fullscreen 1 to fullscreen 0.
Save the file and launch the game.

Input[edit]

In-game key map settings.

In-game mouse settings.

In-game gamepad settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
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
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
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
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
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey [Tweak Guide].
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
Shader Model support	2

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	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 Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (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.

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