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Revision as of 19:36, 29 February 2024
Developers | |
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Black Sea Studios | |
Publishers | |
Europe | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software |
North America, digital | Paradox Interactive |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 30, 2004 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Multiple select, Point and select |
Genres | RTS |
Themes | Africa, Europe, Medieval, Middle East |
Series | Knights of Honor |
Knights of Honor | |
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Knights of Honor | 2004 |
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign | 2022 |
Warnings
Knights of Honor is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game in the Knights of Honor series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SecuROM DRM disc check; removed with patch 1.05. | |||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | Version 1.05. Includes GOG.com's custom DirectDraw wrapper. | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | Version 1.03. See Updating Steam version. |
- A free demo version is available from GameFront.
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest official patch is 1.05, and is available from Patches-Scrolls, ModDB, and GameFront. It resolves a number of issues, including higher difficulty on the "hard" setting.
Skip intro videos
Replace files[1] |
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Updating Steam version
Add missing registry file[2] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %APPDATA%\Black Sea Studios\Knights of Honor |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25830/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %APPDATA%\Black Sea Studios\Knights of Honor\save |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25830/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Widescreen resolution
Use the HD Patch[3] |
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Set resolution manually[4] |
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Windowed
Set windowed[5] |
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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 | Only 2 sliders: "Music" and "Sound/Voices" | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German | Retail only; downloads for Steam release: CompiWare (incl. manual), Steam Community |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 6 | Co-op |
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Online play | 6 | Co-op GameSpy services have been shut down;[6] see GameSpy for workarounds. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
Opening the map editor
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video | |
Multiplayer | GameSpy |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 SE | XP |
Processor (CPU) | 1 GHz Intel Pentium III or comparable | 1.5 GHz Intel Pentium 4 |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 64 MB of VRAM |
- Minimum resolution is 1024x768.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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 (25830) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.