Darksiders

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Darksiders
Darksiders Cover.jpg
Developers
Publishers
 
Release dates
Windows
September 23, 2010
OS X
TBA
Linux
TBA
Darksiders at Steam Charts
Darksiders at SteamDB
 Darksiders at Wikipedia
Darksiders
Darksiders 2010
Darksiders II 2012

Key points

Disadvantage Very few video customization settings.

General information

More information Darksiders Community Forums
More information Steam Community Discussions
More information Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Retail Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Information All versions require Steam.

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Fix Rename/delete files

  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Go into media\videos\
  3. Rename or delete AMD_Logo_movie.wmv, main_menu_intro.wmv, start_screen_intro.wmv, THQ_Logo1280x720.wmv and Vigil_Logo1280x720.wmv.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Darksiders\

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Darksiders\

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Native
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

General settings
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Native WSGF Incomplete.svg
Multi-monitor Impossible Grading incomplete See Multi-monitor.
4K Ultra HD Hackable WSGF Incomplete.svg Requires hex-editing the configuration file.
Field of view (FOV) Impossible
Windowed Impossible
Borderless fullscreen windowed Impossible
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Impossible
Anti-aliasing (AA) Impossible
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
High frame rate Native No frame rate or refresh rate cap.[1]

Multi-monitor[edit]

When playing on a system with multiple monitors, the game will default to fullscreen on the primary monitor. When the game is alt-tabbed out of and reopened, the screen will go black. Once there simply wiggle the mouse . Sometimes the game will go back to normal, and sometimes the game will crash instead.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Impossible
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native
Controller
Controller support Native XInput controllers only.
Full controller support Native
Controller remapping Impossible
Controller Y-axis inversion Native

Audio settings[edit]

Disadvantage Global hotkeys (for example volume keys on some keyboards) are disabled when game is in focus.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native Sliders for music, sound, voice and videos.
Surround sound Impossible Auto-detection, 7.1 audio is supported.
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Impossible Enabled by default.

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native
French Native Unknown Native
German Native Unknown Native
Italian Native Unknown Native
Spanish Native Native Native
Czech Native Unknown Native
Japanese Native Unknown Native
Polish Native Impossible Native
Russian Native Native Native
Turkish Native Impossible Native A Turkish fan patch is available here.

Issues fixed[edit]

Steam achievements not unlocking[edit]

Disadvantage Steam achievements will fail to unlock if the game has already been launched on the current instance of Steam.

Fix Restart Steam

  • Restart Steam. Achievements that should have been awarded will not be rewarded until the task is completed again.

Cutscenes do not play[edit]

Fix Cutscenes do not play

  • Check that Windows Media Player 11 or better is installed on your system.
  • Codec Packs have been known to interfere as well (e.g. LAV Filters). Uninstall any codec packs.

Game doesn't reach menu[edit]

Fix Game doesn't reach menu

  • Could be caused by the AMD logo introduction.
  • Rename <path-to-game>\media\videos\AMD_Logo_movie to something else.

Game freezes at initial black screen[edit]

Fix Game freezes at initial black screen

  • Unplug your keyboard, then start the game, then plug the keyboard back in.

Cutscenes are only visible on half of the screen[edit]

Information This can be caused by the MS13-057/KB2803821 update; reinstall the update to resolve the issue.[2]

Fix Reinstall KB2803821[2]

  1. Open Programs and Features:
    • Vista and newer: Open the Start screen/Start menu, type appwiz.cpl and press ↵ Enter.
    • Windows XP: Press ⊞ Win+R, type appwiz.cpl and press ↵ Enter.
  2. View the installed updates:
    • Vista and newer: choose View installed updates.
    • Windows XP: choose Show updates.
  3. Locate KB2803821 and remove it.
  4. Run Windows Update and install the update again to get a newer version that does not have this problem.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
XP SP3, Vista SP1, 7
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ 2.4 GHz or better, Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0 GHz or better AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Dual Core 2.60 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Dual Core 2.13 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB XP
2 GB (Vista/7) 		2 GB XP
3 GB (Vista/7)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
12 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 8800
NVIDIA GeForce GT220
ATI Radeon X1900
256 MB of VRAM 		NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240
ATI Radeon HD3870
256 MB of VRAM

References

  1. ↑ "Games That Run Above 60FPS" - 120Hz.net Forums
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 MS13-057: Description of the security update for Windows Media Format Runtime 9 and 9.5 (wmvdmod.dll), and for Windows Media Player 11 and 12: July 9, 2013