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Revision as of 11:22, 15 September 2021

Etherlords
Etherlords cover
Developers
Nival Interactive
Release dates
Windows November 8, 2001
Etherlords on MobyGames
Etherlords on Wikipedia
Etherlords
Etherlords 2001
Etherlords II 2004

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.07 updates the game and adds support for hot-seat multiplayer.[1] GOG and Steam versions already have this patch applied.[2]

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Resources\Movies\.
  2. Delete or rename firstlogo.bik, fishtank.bik, intro.bik, and nival.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/270770/pfx/[Note 2]
settings.ini stores the global configuration, in the install path.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/270770/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Launcher video settings.
Launcher video settings.
General settings
General settings
Combat settings
Combat settings

Graphics feature State Notes
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)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail version.
German
Russian
Spanish
Download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Hot seat
Added in Patch 1.07.[1]
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8.1 compatible


Notes

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References