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Revision as of 07:25, 18 May 2015

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Descent
Descent cover
Developers
Parallax Software
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
DOS 1994
Windows March 17, 1995
Mac OS (Classic) 1995
macOS (OS X) October 26, 2012[1]
Descent on Wikipedia
Descent
Descent 1995
Descent II 1996
Descent 3 1999
Descent (cancelled) renamed to S.T.F.U (Ships That Fight Underground) TBA

Key points

Engine is open source with modern multi-platform ports available. It is highly recommended to install the either of the two source ports DXX-Rebirth or D2X-XL.

General information

Official game site
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Descent source code download page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
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GOG.com
DRM-free
Also includes Descent II. DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
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Steam
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DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
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Essential improvements

Source ports

As mentioned above, there are two source ports available for Descent. These ports are major upgrades to the game and will improve almost all aspects of the game. Most notably, these ports support Windows, Mac, and Linux natively without the need for DOSBox.

DXX-Rebirth

Feature List

D2X-XL

Changelog/Feature List

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

Save game data location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.
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Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

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Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

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Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Versus, Co-op
Online play
8 Versus, Co-op

Connection types

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 33 MHz
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 MB
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References