Tzar: The Burden of the Crown
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Developers | |
---|---|
Haemimont Games | |
Publishers | |
Take-Two Interactive | |
Italy, Spain | FX Interactive |
Digital | Haemimont Games |
Release dates | |
Windows | January 27, 2000 |
Reception | |
IGDB | 60 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Multiple select, Point and select |
Genres | RTS |
Themes | Medieval, Fantasy |
Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game.
General information
Availability
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
---|---|---|
Tzar: El Cid y la Reconquista | Released only in Spain. | |
Tzar: El Rey Arturo y Excalibur | Released only in Spain and Italy. | |
Tzar: El Imperio de Gengis Khan | Released only in Spain and Italy. | |
Tzar: Los Dominios de la Magia | Released only in Spain. |
Essential improvements
Patches
- Official patches that update the game to the latest version can be found here.
Unofficial patches
- Unofficial patch 1.13, which provides balance changes, is available here.
- Unofficial patch 1.16b can be found at ModDB
- Unofficial launcher available from ModDB, featuring quality-of-life improvements
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\tzar.ini[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\Save[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | Use cnc-ddraw | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use cnc-ddraw | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Use cnc-ddraw | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Use cnc-ddraw | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Widescreen resolution
Install HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200).[1] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | Sound, Music | |
Surround sound | 5.1 | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 2.0 | |
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
Bulgarian | Retail only. | |||
French | Retail only. | |||
German | Retail and GOG.com only. | |||
Italian | Retail only. | |||
Polish | Retail only. | |||
Portuguese | Retail and GOG.com only. | |||
Russian | Retail only. | |||
Spanish | Retail and GOG.com only. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
LAN play | 8 | Versus |
||
Online play | 8 | Versus Unofficial lobbies on tza.red and TzarOnline.com are available. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
DirectDraw | 7.0 | |
Software renderer | GDI |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows |
Mods
- Mods can be installed two ways: extracting the files directly into the game's directory, or in the
<path-to-game>\Packs
folder (create it manually if not present) and use this package. - Tzar and the Legend of the Return of the Crown
- FX Interactive's additional campaigns, with English translation
Translated official campaigns
- El Cid and the Reconquista 2.0: with Spanish voices, unvoiced
- The Empire of Genghis Khan 1.0: voiced and unvoiced
- The Domains of Magic 1.0: with Spanish voices, unvoiced
- Excalibur and King Arthur 1.0: translation patch
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000 | |
Processor (CPU) | 200 MHz Pentium | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 202 MB |
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). - ↑ 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.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (825730) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Tzar - Burden of the Crown HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200) - last accessed on 2022-08-22