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==Issues Fixed==
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===No shadows shown===
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Latest revision as of 22:10, 22 February 2024

Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul
Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul cover
Developers
Nival Interactive
Release dates
Windows April 16, 2001
Reception
Metacritic 74
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RPG
Art styles Realistic
Themes Fantasy
Series Rage of Mages
Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul on HowLongToBeat
Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul on IGDB
Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul on MobyGames
Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul on Wikipedia
Rage of Mages
Rage of Mages 1998
Rage of Mages 2: Necromancer 1999
Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul 2001
Allods Online 2009

Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RPG game in the Rage of Mages series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Forgotten in Astrale Standalone expansion. Released only in Russia.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saves[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

External options.
External options.
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
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

Input

In-game-input settings.
In-game-input settings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Stereo channels are reversed by default and Reverse stereo sound should be set to On in the in-game audio settings.

Localizations

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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
6 Co-op
Online play
6 Co-op

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 8888
UDP 8888
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues Fixed

No shadows shown

Edit registry value
  1. Go To HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nival Interactive\EvilIslands\Shadow Settings
  2. Modify the hexadecimal value of the registry named ShadowQuality to 2
Now the in-game settings for shadow quality take effect.

No smooth camera pitching

In camera control mode the camera jumps between extreme positions instead of smoothly changing the pitch angle.
Edit registry value
  1. Go To HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nival Interactive\EvilIslands\Camera Settings
  2. Modify the hexadecimal value of the registry named CameraDefaultPitchSpeed to a6 9b c4 3a

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 550 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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