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The Longest Journey

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The Longest Journey
The Longest Journey cover
Developers
Funcom
Release dates
Windows November 19, 1999
The Longest Journey guide on StrategyWiki
The Longest Journey on Wikipedia
The Longest Journey
The Longest Journey 1999
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey 2006
Dreamfall Chapters 2014

Key points

Performance is fairly poor on modern operating systems, with multiple issues with the way that the game window is rendered and movie compatibility.
Fixes listed on this article make the game playable, but the experience is relatively unfriendly.

General information

Official game site
Official forums
Official forums support section
The Longest Journey Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
The soundtrack is available for free at developer's website.

GOG.com and Steam

Both digital releases of the game have major compatibility issues and require tweaking to get around them

Retail

4 CD-ROMs, a 2 CD as well as a DVD re-release has been made.[1]

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.61 adds an external configuration tool along with some bug fixes. This patch is for retail releases only.

GoG currently ships 1.42 of the game, the patcher will not work as is but can be extracted with an archive utility. NOTE: On Windows 10 you may not get any in-game sound with 1.61.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6310/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6310/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Launcher options
Launcher options
In-game options
In-game options

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Windowed

No native option to run in windowed.
Game only runs at resolution at 640x480 (whether fullscreen or windowed)
Game window cannot be moved or manipulated, and there are no fixes for this issue.
Instructions
Instructions
Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Movie and graphics problems

Issue with not being able to view the Bink-encoded movies.
Issue with not being able to display a game window (black screen).
The fixes work for most people, but others have persistent problems and cannot get the game to work properly
Instructions
Instructions
Instructions

Crash to desktop

Game exits to desktop with an error message as soon as a cutscene (FMV) stops playing
Instructions
Instructions

Crash at Police Station

On some graphics cards, the game will crash upon entering the Police Station.
Instructions
If you find the patch is unable to be installed (for example, with the GOG.com version of the game), you may be able to fix the crash by changing some options on the game's launcher. Turn off 3D acceleration, high quality models and set the game to 16 bit colour. You can then re-enable these after you get past that section of the game. When all else fails you can try right-clicking the game icon, select Properties, select the Compatibility tab and check the box for "Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution".

Graphic glitches/flickering with forced AA

Graphic anomalies can be seen when forcing Anti-aliasing through driver's Control Panel
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 640x480 SVGA high colour (16bit) video card
2 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>/6310/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (6310) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References