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Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

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Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
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Developers
Darkworks
Publishers
Infogrames
Release dates
Windows June 22, 2001
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare on Wikipedia
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Key points

Unplayable under Windows 10 due to serious graphical glitches,[1] check Issues fixed for a solution.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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See Launch.exe does not work on the Steam version.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Spiral House\launch\Data
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/259190/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\_Alone4_.000.sav[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/259190/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

300px
Launcher.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Retail only. Patch for digital release here.
German

Issues unresolved

Cheat mode and resolution settings

Running cheat mode will not allow the game to save the launcher resolution setting.

Issues fixed

Fix serious graphical issues under Windows 10

Common issue is white block in menu, and the blue characters models on white backgrounds.
Fix graphical issues[2]
  1. Download these files from dropbox
  2. Replace the original alone4.exe with Spanish the GOG.com version
  3. Put the LOC_##.COK file on the Provider folder and rename it to Locale (Don't forget to DELETE the .COK extension)

Alternative solution for any windows version

Fix graphical issues with bonus[3]
  1. Download patch with integrated 10 / 15 save slots for russian version
  2. Download patch with integrated 10 / 15 save slots for english version
  3. Extract any zip archive to the game dir. Renaming is not necessary

[WARNING: This fix based on english demoversion]

No movies, audio only

Sometimes running High Quality means the movie video becomes disabled.
Run as administrator[4]
  1. Set launch.exe and alone4.exe to run as admininistrator.
  2. Set alone4.exe to run in compatibility for Windows 2000.

Launch.exe does not work on the Steam version

Launch.exe does not work on the Steam version, preventing you from adjusting the resolution from the default 640x480.
The following is a corrected version of launch.exe for Steam. It also comes bundled with a partial fix for the game not running on Windows 8 or 10, as well as higher-quality movies ripped from the Dreamcast version.
Use unofficial fix[5]
  1. Download Alone In The Dark TNN Fixes & Cutscenes.
  2. Delete the movies folder inside the installation folder.
  3. Extract everything from the archive into the installation folder and replace as necessary.
  4. Run the game directly through launch.exe instead of launching it through Steam.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Activate cheat mode

Running cheat mode will not allow the game to save the launcher resolution setting.
Activate cheat mode[6]
  1. Edit the shortcut and replace launcher.exe with alone4.exe.
  2. Add the wizardmaster command line argument.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible

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>/259190/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (259190) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References