Darkstone

Darkstone

Developers
	Delphine Software International
Publishers
	Gathering of Developers
	Anuman Interactive
	VectorCell
	Gravity Europe SAS
Release dates
Windows	July 31, 1999

Key points

For Windows 8 and later use the low frame rate fix.

A Quest Editor is available for making custom content.

Major graphics glitches on recent AMD drivers (see Broken graphics on AMD graphics cards).

The in-game music will frequently skip and stutter on modern hardware. There is no known fix.

General information

Darkstone Database community site

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		DRM: SafeDisc disc check.
GOG.com
Steam

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch is v1.05b. Some previous patches are required. The GOG.com version is already fully patched.

Skip intro videos

Add -nointro to shortcut[citation needed] Go to the shortcut properties. Add -nointro to the end of the target. Click OK to save your changes.

Quest Editor

The Darkstone Quest Editor supports adding or editing monsters, NPCs, buildings and quests.

Journey in Uma addon

Journey in Uma is an official quest pack built with the Quest Editor.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\config

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor			See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen			See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Force in the graphics card control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS		For Windows 8 and later use the low frame rate fix.
120+ FPS

Windowed

Add -32bit -window to shortcut Use the -32bit -window command line arguments. The 32-bit parameter must be present or the interface will be broken.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		Set in <path-to-game>\config\keyboard.txt.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		SFX, Music, Voices
Surround sound
Subtitles		Disabled by default.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Swedish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		Not supported (Steam store page is incorrect).
LAN play		2	Co-op
Online play		2	Co-op

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Broken graphics on AMD graphics cards

Characters and buildings display incorrectly on recent AMD drivers.

3D elements are broken on AMD drivers newer than Catalyst 13.1. The -sortbyz command line argument will fix some issues but others remain.

Use dgVoodoo2[citation needed] Download dgVoodoo2. Open the ZIP file downloaded and copy DDraw.dll and D3Dlmm.dll from the MS folder. Paste the file into the game's root folder. Notes If you use a multi-monitor setup and intend to play the game fullscreen, you'll also need to extract dgVoodooSetup.exe to the folder of your choosing so you can set the display monitor to your primary (See Readme.txt, included in the ZIP file, for more details).

Broken interface in windowed mode

Setting 32-bit color mode fixes the windowed mode interface.

Set 32-bit color mode Use the -32bit command line argument

Low frame rate in fullscreen mode

This game has frame rate issues on Windows 8 and later when running in fullscreen mode.

Apply necessary fixes[citation needed] Install the Darkstone low frame rate fix. Use the -32bit command line argument to avoid flickering/invisible graphics.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6.1
64-bit executable

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Xaudio MPEG Audio Engine

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Pentium 233 MHz MMX (or AMD equivalent)	Pentium II 350 MHz MMX (or AMD equivalent)
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	170 MB	380 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible