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Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo

What is Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo?

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game. The game features a protagonist named Daniel exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while avoiding monsters and other obstructions as well as solving puzzles. Amnesia is an adventure game played from a first-person perspective.

About  (from Frictional Games)

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core. Amnesia: The Dark Descent puts you in the shoes of Daniel as he wakes up in a desolate castle, barely remembering anything about his past. Explorin...  Read more

Overview

Upon installation and setup, it defines an auto-start registry entry which makes this program run on each Windows boot for all user logins. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. The main program executable is Amnesia.exe. The software installer includes 60 files and is usually about 13.29 MB (13,938,891 bytes).

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.amnesiagame.com
Help link: support.steampowered.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Amnesia The Dark Descent Demo
Uninstaller: "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/57310
Estimated size: 13.29 MB

Program filesFiles installed by Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo

Program executable:Amnesia.exe
Path:C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Amnesia The Dark Descent Demo\Amnesia.exe
MD5:9acebad1273b0c007885ecfb40b24857
Additional files:
  • Launcher.exe
  • alut.dll
  • Amnesia.exe
  • AppOverlay.dll (by Valve) - Steam Application Overlay Renderer (Steam Application Overlay)
  • AppOverlay64.dll (by Valve)
  • BlackBox.dll
  • crashhandler.dll - Steam Crash Handler Library
  • crashhandler64.dll
  • CSERHelper.dll - CSER Helper (Debug Helper Routines)
  • d3dcompiler_46.dll (by Microsoft) - Microsoft® DirectX for Windows® (Direct3D HLSL Compiler)
  • d3dcompiler_46_64.dll (by Microsoft)
  • dbghelp.dll - Debugging Tools for Windows(R) (Windows Image Helper)
  • DevIL.dll (by Abysmal Software) - Developer's Image Library (DevIL) (DevIL: A portable image library in development)
  • fltkdll.dll
  • GameOverlayRenderer.dll - Steam Game Overlay Renderer
  • GameOverlayRenderer64.dll
  • GameOverlayUI.exe - Steam
  • glew32.dll - The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
  • glut32.dll
  • hd.dll
  • ILU.dll (by Abysmal Software) - Developer's Image Utilities Library (ILU: A portable image library in development)
  • ILUT.dll - Developer's Image Utility Toolkit Library (ILUT: A portable image library in development)
  • jpeg.dll
  • keyhook.dll
  • libavcodec-55.dll
  • libavformat-55.dll
  • libavresample-1.dll
  • libavutil-53.dll
  • libogg.dll
  • libpng12.dll - LibPNG (PNG image compression library)
  • libpng13.dll
  • libswscale-2.dll
  • libtheora.dll
  • libvorbis.dll
  • libvorbisfile.dll
  • msvcp71.dll - Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft® C++ Runtime Library)
  • msvcr71.dll - Microsoft® C Runtime Library
  • Newton.dll
  • OpenAL32.dll (by Portions (C) Creative Labs and NVIDIA) - Standard OpenAL(TM) Library (Standard OpenAL(TM) Implementation)
  • SDL.dll - Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)
  • SDL_ttf.dll - SDL_ttf
  • SDL2.dll
  • Steam.dll
  • Steam.exe - Steam Client Bootstrapper
  • Steam2.dll - Steam Client Engine
  • steamclient.dll
  • steamclient64.dll
  • steamerrorreporter.exe
  • steamerrorreporter64.exe
  • SteamUI.dll - SteamUI Dynamic Link Library
  • streaming_client.exe
  • tier0_s.dll - tier0_s Dynamic Link Library
  • tier0_s64.dll
  • uninstall.exe
  • video.dll
  • vstdlib_s.dll - vstdlib_ s.dll
  • vstdlib_s64.dll
  • wrap_oal.dll (by Creative Labs) - Creative Labs OpenAL32 (OpenAL32)
  • WriteMiniDump.exe - Win32 MiniDump Helper
  • zlib1.dll - zlib (zlib data compression library)

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Scheduled Task
  • Steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{ABA2DD56-F00B-4D40-AC0A-2B182C57677E}' (runs on registration).
Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)
  • Steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Steam 2.
Startup File (User Run)
  • Steam.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Steam' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -silent.
Startup File (All Users Run)
  • Steam.exe is loaded in the all users (HKLM) registry as a startup file name 'Steam' which loads as "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -silent.
Windows Firewall Allowed Program
  • Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.

How do I remove Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo?

You can uninstall Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo.

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 56%
Win Vista (SP2) 4%
 
HOW IT STARTS
Automatically starts? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 19%
Keep it 81%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 55.84%
Windows 10 40.26%
Windows Vista 3.90%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 44.74%
Windows 8.1 22.37%
Windows 8 9.21%
Windows 7 Professional 7.89%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 3.95%
Windows 10 Home 3.95%

Distribution by countryGeography

73.83% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 73.83%
  United Kingdom 6.54%
  France 2.80%
  Germany 2.80%
  Canada 2.80%
  Finland 1.87%
  Australia 1.87%
  Italy 1.87%
  Brazil 0.93%
  Norway 0.93%
  Mexico 0.93%
  Spain 0.93%
  Netherlands 0.93%
  Ireland 0.93%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 28.81%
ASUS 16.95%
Acer 15.25%
Lenovo 8.47%
Dell 6.78%
GIGABYTE 5.08%
Toshiba 3.39%
Sony 3.39%
Samsung 3.39%
American Megatrends 3.39%
Sahara 1.69%
Alienware 1.69%
Common models
HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... 3.08%
LENOVO 20217 3.08%
TOSHIBA Satellite S875D 1.54%
TOSHIBA Satellite L875 1.54%
TOSHIBA Satellite L655 1.54%
TOSHIBA Satellite C55D-A 1.54%

Publisher URL: www.frictionalgames.com

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