Difference between revisions of "Port Royale: Gold, Power and Pirates"
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Latest revision as of 09:36, 17 December 2023
Developers | |
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Ascaron Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Ascaron Entertainment |
Digital | Kalypso Media |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 14, 2002 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 79 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Business, Strategy |
Vehicles | Naval/watercraft |
Themes | Piracy, North America, South America |
Series | Port Royale |
Port Royale | |
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Port Royale: Gold, Power and Pirates | 2002 |
Port Royale 2 | 2004 |
Port Royale 3: Pirates & Merchants | 2012 |
Port Royale 4 | 2020 |
Port Royale: Gold, Power and Pirates is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric business and strategy game in the Port Royale series.
Retail releases labeled as Gold Edition in the German-speaking market have patch 1.3.0 already applied. When the game was released internationally, the Gold Edition was used as the baseline.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | All non-Taiwanese versions uses ProtectDISC Software DRM Taiwanese version uses SecuROM DRM[1] |
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GOG.com | Uses GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper |
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest official patch is 1.4.0.3: international | German | German for pre-Gold Edition copies.
Skip intro videos
Delete/rename video file |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\options.sav[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\*.mrk[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Run the game with the /windowed parameter (as of v1.4.0.3). Also, GOG's custom wrapper includes support for this. |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | GOG's custom wrapper includes support for this. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, sound, video | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | Retail only. | |||
Traditional Chinese | Retail only. | |||
Dutch | Retail only. | |||
French | Retail only. | |||
German | Retail only. | |||
Hungarian | Retail only. | |||
Italian | Retail only. | |||
Japanese | Retail only. | |||
Polish | Retail only. | |||
Russian | Retail only. | |||
Spanish | Retail only. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 8 | Versus |
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Online play | 8 | Versus The official multiplayer service has been shut down. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw | 7 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Miles Sound System | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video | |
Multiplayer | Ascaron Matcher |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98, ME | 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 450 MHz | Intel Pentium III 900 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 500 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 32 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Posedennetshow on 2023-10-30
- CRC32: CB93C5E7. T-Time officially shipped protection SecuROM in Taiwanese version.