Haegemonia: Legions of Iron

Haegemonia
Haegemonia: Legions of Iron	2002
Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage	2003

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc 2 DRM^{[Note 1]}
GOG.com		Includes Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage.
Mac App Store
Steam
ZOOM Platform		Includes Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Demo

A free demo can be downloaded here (German site, but English demo).

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
The Solon Heritage	Retail requires base game; digital distribution version is a standalone title.

Essential improvements

Patches

The most recent patch is 1.10, download it here.

The Steam and GOG versions are only 1.09 - install patch 1.10 for them too if you get problems with invisible ships after reloading.^[4]

Skip intro videos

Use replacement files
Use the Haegemonia: Legions of Iron intro skip. Deleting the files also works but causes error messages in-game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Digital Reality\Haegemonia\^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/294770/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save^{[Note 4]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/294770/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	On/off only.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Set in registry (see Game data).
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	No frame rate cap.

Widescreen resolution

Must be performed each time you launch the game - resets when viewing options menu.

The whole registry branch might disappear

Registry edit for widescreen resolution^[5]
Open the registry key `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Digital Reality\Haegemonia` Set values for `ResolutionX` and `ResolutionY`

Windowed

Use modding tools^{[citation needed]}

Install the Hegemonia: Legions of Iron Modding Tools.
Go to Inf_files_uncrypted\Inf in the Modding Tools folder.
Copy program.inf to Inf in the installation folder, replacing the existing file when prompted.
Open this new program.inf.
Change English to your language if you were not playing in English.
Set SkipStartScreen to 0 to disable the automatic mission loading.
Save your changes and close the file. The game will now run in a window. Change FullScreen to 1 for fullscreen mode.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Use `ShortcutEditor.exe` in the installation folder. Full key remapping is not supported; some keys can't be selected, and some functions (like Pause) cannot be rebound.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Effect and Speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Polish				Retail only
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Sound System Error

Mod DB download^{[citation needed]}
Download and install Haegemonia Legions of Iron Sound System Fix

Disable audio^[6]
In the options menu, set all audio sliders to zero. Restart the game.

Ships become transparent

If textures on ships start disappearing after reloading (which makes the ships transparent / invisible):

Replace starfield.mat^[7]

Replace the starfield.mat file in Legions of Iron with the one from The Solon Heritage:

Go to <path-to-game>\Shaders\Materials in the Solon Heritage install directory and copy starfield.mat
Go to <path-to-game>\Shaders\Materials in the Legions of Iron directory and replace the starfield.mat there

Install patch 1.10^[4]
Install patch 1.10 from here. This is necessary even for GOG and Steam versions.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play		GameSpy server browser no longer works.

Connection types

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

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP	19664,19667

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Multiplayer	GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[2] 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.^[3]
↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1
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 (294770) 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

[4] SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[2] 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.^[3]

[HKLM-6] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[Proton_path_note-7] 3.0 ^3.1 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 (294770) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

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

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

[6] The app ID (294770) may differ in some cases.

[7] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

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

[gamedir-8] 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] Mac Game Update: 34 New Additions ● GOG.com

[2] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[3] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[1.10-5] 4.0 ^4.1 https://www.gog.com/forum/haegemonia_gold_edition/patch_1_10

[9] ttps://www.wsgf.org/dr/hegemonia-legions-iron

[10] ttp://www.thegameengine.org/haegemonia/haegemonia-sound-system-error/

[11] ttps://forum.planet3dnow.de/index.php?threads/haegemonia-problem-durchsichtige-schiffe.172263

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Developers

	Digital Reality
Publishers
	Anuman Interactive
Release dates
Windows	November 14, 2002
macOS (OS X)	November 15, 2013^[1]
Taxonomy
Series	Haegemonia