The Black Mirror
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| Developers | |
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| Future Games | |
| Unknown Identity | |
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| Nordic Games | |
| Russia | Akella |
| Engines | |
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| Release dates | |
| Windows | October 17, 2003 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 58 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Perspectives | Cinematic camera |
| Controls | Point and select |
| Genres | Adventure |
| Art styles | Pre-rendered graphics, Realistic |
| Themes | Contemporary, Detective/mystery |
| Series | Black Mirror |
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| Black Mirror | |
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| The Black Mirror | 2003 |
| Black Mirror 2 | 2009 |
| Black Mirror 3 | 2011 |
| Black Mirror | 2017 |
For the 2017 reboot, see Black Mirror.
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1]. | |
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| GOG.com | |
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| Green Man Gaming | |
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- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected releases).
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\agds.cfg[Note 2] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/292930/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/292930/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video
External video settings.
In-game options menu.
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | Use Dgvoodoo2 | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | Use Dgvoodoo2 wihth Borderless gaming app togeather. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| Color blind mode | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Keyboard and mouse prompts | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Czech | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation by guitutilo / RafaelGC; download. | |||
| Russian | ||||
| Spanish |
- On GOG, the audio language is selected by downloading corresponding installer. Merging of localizations does not appear possible due to sharing file names. English version does not appear to run at all.
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| DirectDraw | [5] |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |||
| Operating system (OS) | 98 98,ME,2000,XP,Vista,7,8 (Steam) | ME, 2000, XP XP,Vista,7,8 (Steam) |
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| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 400 MHz | Intel Pentium II 600 MHz | ||
| System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB 256 MB (Steam) |
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| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) | 2 GB | |||
| Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.1 DirectX 8.0 (Steam) compatible | 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible |
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| Other | 12X CD-ROM drive | |||
Notes
- ↑ Version 3.0 of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/292930/. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (292930) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.