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The Long Dark

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The Long Dark
The Long Dark cover
Developers
Hinterland
Engines
Unity 5[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows August 1, 2017[2]
macOS (OS X) August 1, 2017[2]
Linux August 1, 2017[2]
The Long Dark on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Official website
Official forums

Availability

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hinterland\TheLongDark\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/Hinterland/The Long Dark/
Additional (Unity?) configuration files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Hinterland/TheLongDark/
Configuration files appear to be encrypted.
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hinterland\TheLongDark\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/Hinterland/The Long Dark/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

Issues fixed

Black screen on launch in Linux version

Error occurs after launching the Linux version of the game from Steam.
Add the following to the game's launch options[3]

Add the following to the game's launch options: LD_PRELOAD=~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 -screen-fullscreen 1 -screen-width "width" -screen-height "height" -force-glcore42 -force-clamped where "width" and "height" should be replaced with your screen resolution's width and height.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Mods

The Mod-Installer offers a user-friendly GUI for installing mods.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5 Dual-Core 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel 4xxx Series
512 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.9.3
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics 5000
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) SteamOS
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5 Dual-Core 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Intel 4xxx Series
512 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.6.3p3[1]

References

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-03-19
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Long Dark - News - Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Verified by User:FantaBuoy on 2019-01-21
    Tested on Arch Linux - kernel 4.20.3