KnightShift
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Developers | |
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Reality Pump Studios | |
Publishers | |
TopWare Interactive | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 15, 2003 |
macOS (OS X) | 2004 |
macOS (OS X) (Cider) | January 25, 2017[1] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Multiple select, Point and select |
Genres | RPG, RTS |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | Polanie |
Polanie | |
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Polanie | 1996 |
KnightShift | 2003 |
Key points
- Titled Once Upon a Knight in some regions and Polanie II in Poland.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Reality Pump DRM | |||
GamersGate | Reality Pump DRM | |||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | Prompts for product key (does not use online activation).[2] OS X version uses Wineskin. | |||
ZOOM Platform |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Change registry settings[3] |
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Skip credits
- The game normally shows credits after the player chooses to exit the game.
Change registry settings[3] |
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Restore original music
- The Steam/GOG release use a different soundtrack than the original CD release. You can download the original music file from this Steam forum thread.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame[Note 1] HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254060/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Players\[Note 3] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254060/pfx/[Note 2] |
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 | Stretched from 4:3. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Set in Config.exe . |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Open regedit and then go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame\Graphics\Direct3D and set Antialiasing line to a desired value. |
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Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | No frame rate cap. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
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 FX, Units speeches, Dialogs, Environment | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Polish | ||||
Russian | Retail release only. Patch for digital release is here |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 8 | |||
Online play | 8 |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D, Z3D Game requires d3d8to9 wrapper, see here. |
Issues fixed
Game immediately opens configuration tool on execution
- The configuration tool seems to use different methods of determining display information from the game, resulting in sometimes incompatible configurations that the game refuses to accept.
- Certain resolutions may not be properly recognized by the game.
Adjust Registry to allow additional display modes[4] |
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- On systems with switchable graphics, the configuration tool may get an adapter name that is different from what the engine gets. This also causes the game to bail.
Adjust Registry to set proper graphics adapter name[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 | |
Shader Model support | 2.0 |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | ||||
macOS (OS X) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | 700 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 800 MB | 2 GB |
Video card (GPU) | TnL support 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible | 256 MB of VRAM Shader model 2.0 support |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.12 | |
Processor (CPU) | Single Core | 2.0 GHz Multicore |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2.1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM | 256 MB of VRAM Shader model 2.0 support |
Notes
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for 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.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/254060/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (254060) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Mac port available now! - Steam Community Announcements
- ↑ Verified by User:Garrett on 8 December 2014
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Verified by User:User on 2019-08-02
- ↑ "Game not starts/ Can't play in 1080p" - Steam Community Discussion