Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
General Information
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Known Issues
Dark Messiah runs rampant with bugs here are a few: Graphical issues: Graphic artifacts, missing textures (models appear yellow) Audio: audio stuttering, audio looping Gameplay: (mild spoiler) giant spider not showing up
Fixes
Graphical issues: Re-install all drivers, if this does not work re-install the game, reformatting or playing on a different computer has been known to fix these issues, last resort: buy a new graphics card 6 series and lower video cards have been know to not work well with the game, lower tier Nvidia 7, 8 and 9 series gpus do not work well with the game (Cards that do work are the 7800 and 7900 7 series cards. the following are 8 series cards that run the game well; the 8800gt, gts, gtx and Ultra varients. the following 9 series cards will run the game fine the 9800gt, gtx, gtx+ and gx2 variants.)
Audio: Most issues have been taken care of as of the latest patches which the steam version will deliver automatically, view Patches for information on updating manually.
Gameplay: all bugs can be fixed by starting from last save (before entering the area where you are having trouble), restarting the level or restarting the game.
Patches
Patches are 1.01 and 1.02. Among others they will decrease the infamous audio-stuttering, getting stuck while using the rope bow, balance some enemies and add a new "Hardcore" difficult.
Download for English Version You have to install 1.01 first and than 1.02.
If you have the German Version use this. Your only have to install 1.02, it already contains 1.01.
Links
Mod Archive Note: There are only a few Mods available because the developers promised but never released a SDK.