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Empire of the Ants
Empire of the Ants cover
Developers
Microïds
Engines
X3D
Release dates
Windows April 20, 2000
Reception
Metacritic 59
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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ini\[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegame\[Note 2]

Video settings

External graphics settings
External graphics settings
In-game graphics settings
In-game graphics settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings
In-game audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French

Network

External modem settings.
External modem settings.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
8 Versus
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP


Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).

References