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Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage

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Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage
Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage cover
Developers
Zoetrope Interactive
Publishers
Iceberg Interactive
Release dates
Windows May 28, 2010
Reception
IGDB 50
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure
Art styles Stylized
Themes Contemporary, Horror
Series Darkness Within
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General information

Official website
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Russian copies use StarForce 5 DRM.
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Darkness Within 2\config.txt
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/298950/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Darkness Within 2\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/298950/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
Switching on Ambient Occlusion or Depth of Field in Advanced settings switches off Antialiasing and disables its setting.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
Stretched by default. See Aspect ratio.
4K Ultra HD
Stretched by default. See Aspect ratio. Resolution can be in unusual place, e.g. leftmost.
Field of view (FOV)
Though fov setting is present in config.txt, it's autoreverted to 75 every time game starts. Making file readonly does not help.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
MSAA up to 8x.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Aspect ratio

Game uses 4:3 aspect ratio by default.
Set custom aspect ratio in config file[1]
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Darkness Within 2.
  2. Open the config.txt file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Change value of aspect to the ratio of width/height of desired resolution, e.g.:
    1. 1.25000 - 5:4
    2. 1.33333 - 4:3
    3. 1.77778 - 16:9
    4. 2.33333 - 21:9
    5. 2.37037 - 2560x1080
  4. Save the file.
  5. Launch the game.

Input

In-game input and gameplay settings.
In-game input and gameplay settings.
In-game keyboard bindings.
In-game keyboard bindings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
SFX, Music, Ambient, Dialog
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Local retail version. Official localization by «Новый диск» (ND)
Russian
Fan translation by «ENPY Studio»
Spanish
Fan translation, download.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support


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>/298950/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (298950) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Steam Community - last accessed on 26 May 2023