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{{--}} Suffers from issues on modern systems (see [[#Issues_unresolved|Issues unresolved]]).
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==Issues unresolved==
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===Invisible 3D models on modern systems===
 
===Invisible 3D models on modern systems===
Various 3D  models (including character models) are invisible on modern systems, which makes progressing through the game impossible.
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{{ii}} Various 3D  models (including character models) are invisible on Windows 7 and newer, which makes progressing through the game impossible.
 
 
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Latest revision as of 17:49, 28 February 2024

Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado
Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado cover
Developers
Revolution Software
Publishers
Ubisoft
Light and Shadow Production
Engines
ICB[1]
Release dates
Windows November 8, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Cartoon
Series DreamWorks
Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado on HowLongToBeat
Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado on MobyGames
Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado on Wikipedia
Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado 2000
Shrek (series)
Spirit (series)
Antz Extreme Racing 2002
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 2003
Shark Tale 2004
Madagascar (series)
Over the Hedge 2006
Bee Movie Game 2007
Kung Fu Panda (series)
Monsters vs. Aliens 2009
DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing 2023

Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado is a singleplayer cinematic camera adventure game in the DreamWorks series.

The game suffers from issues on modern systems (see Issues fixed).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\engine\eldorado.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Speech, SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Spanish

Issues fixed

Invisible 3D models on modern systems

Various 3D models (including character models) are invisible on Windows 7 and newer, which makes progressing through the game impossible.
Disable Data Execution Prevention from the Windows Control Panel[citation needed]

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) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 466 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX 7 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM drive


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