The Moment of Silence
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| Developers | |
|---|---|
| House of Tales | |
| Publishers | |
| Retail | DTP Entertainment |
| Digital | Nordic Games |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | October 1, 2004 |
| 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 |
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | English and Italian releases. | |||
| Retail | StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] in German, French and Russian releases. | |||
| GOG.com | ||||
| Green Man Gaming | ||||
| Humble Store | ||||
| Steam |
- 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 |
|---|---|
| Windows | |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/339840/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\House of Tales\The Moment of Silence\savegames\[Note 3] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/339840/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | Letterboxed 4:3. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| Color blind mode | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Keyboard and mouse prompts | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | Cutscenes are not subtitled. | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Czech | in GOG+STEAM versions | |||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Spanish |
VR support
| 3D modes | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| vorpX | 2D Game is only partly 3D. No profile required for playing with vorpx in 2D. |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 8 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Recommended | |||
| Operating system (OS) | 98, ME, 2000, XP 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8 (Steam) | XP, Vista, 7, 8 (Steam) | ||
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 450 MHz Intel or AMD 800 MHz (Steam) | Intel or AMD 1.4 GHz (Steam) | ||
| System memory (RAM) | 64 MB 256 MB (Steam) | 1 GB (Steam) | ||
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) | 4 GB (Steam) | |||
| Video card (GPU) | 32 MB 64 MB (Steam) of VRAM DirectX 9.0 DirectX 8.1 (Steam) compatible | 128 MB (Steam) of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
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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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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>/339840/. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (339840) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ 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).