Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

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Minimum Requirements

In order for this game to run properly, your PC MUST meet or exceed these minimum system requirements: Supported OS: Windows XP (only) Processor: AMD Athlon, Pentium 2.6 GHz (3.2GHz recommended) RAM: 512 MB (1 GB recommended) Video Card: 128 MB DirectX 9-compliant video card (256 MB recommended) (see supported list*) Sound Card: DirectX 9-compliant sound card (PC audio solution containing Dolby Digital Live required for Dolby Digital audio) DirectX Version: DirectX 9 or higher (included on disc) DVD-ROM: 4x or faster DVD-ROM drive Hard Drive Space: 7 GB free Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible mouse and keyboard Multiplayer: Broadband Internet connection with 64 Kbps upstream or faster. Installation of Steam software required for multiplay *Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GeForce FX / 6 / 7 families ATI Radeon 9 / X families NOTE: If you are running at or near the minimum requirements, we recommend not joining servers with more than 16 players Laptop versions of these cards are not fully supported. NVIDIA nForce or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for DolbyDigital audio. NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disc and virtual drives
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Patch

The latest patch for Dark Messiah can be found in the patch download section of www.ubi.com. The Dark Messiah patch download page is: http://www.ubi.com/US/Downloads/Info.aspx?dlId=1939
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Cutscenes Not Playing

To fix the issue:Please make sure you have installed the DirectX version that came with the game.If you didn't install it: explore Disc 1 and look for the DXSETUP.exe from the path Disk1\Support\DirectX.Double click on the DXSETUP.exe file to install the directx version that came with the game. If you did install directx that came with the game, try adding the switch -dxlevel 90c to the games shortcut. To do this:Right-click on the shortcut for the single player game on your desktop and then select Properties.When the Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Properties window pops up, look for the Target box, it should read "C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Dark Messiah of Might and Magic\mm.exe"Move the blinking cursor to the end of the path after the quotation marks. press the Spacebar once and then type in: -dxlevel 90c.It should now look like this "C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Dark Messiah of Might and Magic\mm.exe" -dxlevel 90c.Click on Apply and then click OK. Try launching the game. Your issue should now be resolved.
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Dark Messiah Game Manual

You can download a digital version of the Dark Messiah game manual in .PDF format from http://media.ubi.com/us/games/darkmessiah/DARK0266_PCS_MNL.pdf You will need to have Acrobat Reader installed to open this document.
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[STEAM] Performance Problems

If your video card has less than 512 MB of memory, please try using the mat_picmip 1 console command to improve game performance (please see the console FAQ if you are unfamiliar with using console commands). If this performance recommendation helps with performance issues in Dark Messiah you may wish to add it to your configuration file so you will not need to enter it into the console when loading Dark Messiah: 1. Exit Dark Messiah 2. Locate the Dark Messiah configuration file: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\< Your Steam Account Name >\dark messiah might and magic single player\mm\cfg\config.cfg (With a default installation) 3.Open the file in Notepad and add mat_picmip "1" on a new line at the end of the file 4.Save the file to permanently save this setting
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[STEAM Download Version] Sound Issues

Some of the sound files may not have downloaded correctly when you originally downloaded the game from Steam. To resolve this issue, simply open up the Steam application and then go to the "My Games" tab. Highlight Dark Messiah Might and Magic Multiplayer and click on Properties at the bottom right hand corner of the screen. A properties window should come up, choose the Local Files tab at the top. Click on the button that says "Verify integrity of game cache..." It should scan for a few minutes then download the missing sound files to fix the problem.

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