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Europa Universalis
Europa Universalis	2000
Europa Universalis II	2001
Europa Universalis III	2007
Europa Universalis: Rome	2008
For the Glory: A Europa Universalis Game	2009
Europa Universalis IV	2013

Europa Universalis III is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view strategy and simulation game in the Europa Universalis series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Official forum

Europa Universalis 3 Wiki

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
		Europa Universalis III: Complete
GOG.com		Europa Universalis III: Complete
Green Man Gaming		Europa Universalis III: Chronicles
Humble Store		Europa Universalis III: Complete
Steam		^[1] Europa Universalis III: Complete.
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable)		Europa Universalis III: Complete^[2]
Mac App Store (unavailable)		Europa Universalis III: Chronicles
Origin (unavailable)		Europa Universalis III: Complete

For more, see here.

A free demo is available from Steam: steam://install/22150.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Napoleon's Ambition	Extends timeline from 1453-1793 to 1453-1822.
In Nomine	Extends timeline to start at 1399.
Heir to the Throne	Improved Casus belli system. Note that from this expansion on the Mac, PowerPC support was dropped.
Divine Wind

Europa Universalis III: Complete includes Napoleon's Ambition and In Nomine. Europa Universalis III: Chronicles includes Heir to the Throne and Divine Wind.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25800/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save Games\^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25800/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Change fullscreen=yes to =no in settings.txt file. Also change your resolution to a lower one, otherwise it won't work.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Change anisotropicfiltering=0 to =1 in settings.txt file.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Up to 8 times Multisampling.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

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		No spoken audio.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German
Polish				Local retail version only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play		Co-op, Versus
Online play		Co-op, Versus

Issues fixed

DirectX Issue

Problems with the game crashing, with an error in d3dx9_35.dll or d3dx9_41.dll may be caused by missing DirectX 9 components. Installing DirectX 9.0c from Microsoft may correct this problem. Install the DirectX End-User Runtimes.

Required Software

Along with DirectX 9.0c, Europa Universalis requires additional Microsoft software to run on Windows. These may already be installed on your computer, however if you are having problems, reinstalling them may help.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package
The latest version of .NET Framework

Tutorial Crashing

The Europa Universalis Complete edition contains a tutorial mode that does not function, and Paradox has advised players not to use it. Beginning with the second tutorial, the game may crash when the tutorial is activated. Renaming or deleting the game's music folder may prevent the crash, at the expense of the music.

Crash when viewing ledger

This occurs when playing DLC Heir to the Throne. It is fixed in Divine Wind, or in one of the released beta patches.

Downloading the beta patch requires you to register your game with Paradox Plaza.

Music Issues

If the music doesn't play, installing k-lite codec pack may correct this.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c
Shader Model support	2.0

Executable	PPC	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)				The game supported PowerPC processors through the second expansion. After the Heir to the Throne expansion, only Intel processors are supported.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000 SP1	XP SP2
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.9 GHz AMD Athlon 1.9 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	Hardware Transform & Lighting support 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible Shader model 2.0 support

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.5.8	10.6.3
Processor (CPU)	Intel PowerPC G5 (until Heir to the Throne)
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	700 MB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 5200 ATI Radeon 9600 Intel GMA 950

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 (25800) 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

↑ Verified by User:Itsumi1117 on 2022-10-21
↑ Welcome to Games for Windows Marketplace - Games for Windows - last accessed on 19 August 2022

[Proton_path_note-3] 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 (25800) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[4] The app ID (25800) may differ in some cases.

[5] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[6] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[gamedir-4] 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).

[1] Verified by User:Itsumi1117 on 2022-10-21

[2] Welcome to Games for Windows Marketplace - Games for Windows - last accessed on 19 August 2022

[1]

[2]

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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Developers

	Paradox Development Studio
macOS (OS X)	Virtual Programming
Publishers
	Paradox Interactive
Engines
	Clausewitz
Release dates
Windows	January 23, 2007
macOS (OS X)	November 2, 2007
Reception
Metacritic	83
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Top-down view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Strategy, Simulation
Themes	Historical
Series	Europa Universalis