Anno 1503

Anno 1503

Developers
	Max Design
Publishers
	Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows	March 23, 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization	Expansion pack
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	Building, RTS
Series	Anno

Anno 1503 is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building and RTS game in the Anno series.

Key points

Also called 1503 A.D in North America.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Official game site

Anno 1503 Wiki (German only)

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Copies with the name Anno 1503 use SecuROM 4 DRM, and copies with the name 1503 AD or Anno 1503: The New World use SafeDisc v2 DRM.
GOG.com		includes the "Treasures, Monsters & Pirates" expansion.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Demo

An English demo can be downloaded here.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Treasures, Monsters & Pirates

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SaveGame

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Max resolution of 1280x1024.
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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Windowed

D3DWindower[citation needed]
See D3DWindower for further instructions. Find <path-to-game>\1503Startup.exe. Run it with D3DWindower by pushing the fifth button. Notes Activating the emulation is not needed. Running the game directly through the launcher will work. Run any borderless applications before running D3Dwindower or else the game will crash.

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
German
Hungarian				Fan translation.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	2000
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 500 MHz	Intel Pentium III 1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	930 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible