The Mystery of the Druids
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Developers | |
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House of Tales | |
Publishers | |
2001-2015 | CDV Software |
2015-2016 | Nordic Games |
2016-present | THQ Nordic |
Engines | |
Cougar Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 23, 2001 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 49 |
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 |
The Mystery of the Druids is a singleplayer cinematic camera adventure game.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | US, EU: SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1] Russia: StarForce DRM |
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GOG.com | ||||
Steam | Can be run without Steam once downloaded |
Essential improvements
Configure video mode
Fix crashes when giving or taking items
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Fix saving and loading
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\House of Tales\Mystery of the Druids\Config |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/343000/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME[Note 3] <path-to-game>\lastgame[Note 3] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/343000/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Can be enabled through the [[Cougar Setup Utility]. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Enabled if hardware-accelerated, disabled if software rendered. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
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 |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, voice, and FX. | |
Surround sound | Dolby Surround support. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | Fan translation - #1 | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Russian |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 | |
Software renderer |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | FMOD | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, ME |
Processor (CPU) | 200 MHz | 1.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | VGA Video (with or without 3D) 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.2 compatible | DirectX 9.0c compatible |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 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>/343000/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (343000) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16