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Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

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Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Activision
Release dates
Windows November 18, 1999
Reception
Metacritic 80
IGDB 70
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Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned on IGDB
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Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned on Wikipedia
Gabriel Knight
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 1993
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery 1995
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned 1999
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers - 20th Anniversary Edition 2014

Key points

Potentially confusing controls, with the protagonist and the camera controlled independently.

General information

Gabriel Knight Omnipedia - Wiki for the series
Sierra Gamers - Game page on Ken Williams' official website
The Sierra Help Pages - Extensive troubleshooting guide
Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature on the series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Requires CDs at specific points in the story.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Updated installer

The Sierra Help Pages Installer for the retail release allows the whole game to be installed to the hard drive, and addresses compatibility issues of the original installer.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sierra On-Line\Gabriel Knight 3\Engine\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/497360/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save Games\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/497360/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings
Video settings
Game options
Game options

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Maximum selectable resolution of 1024x768. For higher resolutions see 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
No frame rate/refresh rate cap.

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in registry[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Change (default) and Screen Height to the desired height (values must match).
  3. Change Screen Width to the desired width.
(alternative) Add Command line arguments[2]

Run the game with the following parameters: -width XXXX -height YYYY
where XXXX represents your desired horizontal and YYYY vertical resolution.

Input

Key mapping
Key mapping
Camera controls
Camera controls

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
General, Voices, SFX, Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail release only.
German
Retail release only.
Italian
Retail release only.
Polish
Retail release only.
Portuguese
Retail release only.
Spanish
Retail version, download.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 137 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.1 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/497360/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (497360) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. 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