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'''General information'''
 
'''General information'''
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{{mm}} [http://discord.gg/desperados Official Discord server] for game series
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{{mm}} [https://discord.gg/desperados Official Discord server] for game series
 
{{GOG.com links|2117086633|desperados_series|for game series}}
 
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{{Availability|
 
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Latest revision as of 16:35, 28 July 2023

Helldorado
Helldorado cover
Developers
Spellbound Entertainment
Publishers
Retail (US), first digital Viva Media
Retail (Germany) DTP Entertainment
Retail (Russia, Poland) 1C Company
Retail (rest of Europe) Nobilis
2017-present THQ Nordic
Engines
Vision
Release dates
Windows May 25, 2007
Reception
Metacritic 65
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Stealth, Strategy
Themes Western
Series Desperados
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Helldorado on HowLongToBeat
Helldorado on IGDB
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Helldorado guide on StrategyWiki
Helldorado on MobyGames
Helldorado on Wikipedia
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Desperados
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive 2001
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge 2006
Helldorado 2007
Desperados III 2020

Helldorado is a singleplayer bird's-eye view stealth and strategy game in the Desperados series.

General information

Official Discord server for game 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)
 TAGES and Solidshield DRM.
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
A German demo version can be downloaded from Mod DB.

Game data

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

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\configuration\game\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/18470/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Helldorado\Savegame\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/18470/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
See the WSGF topic.
Windowed
See 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
Limiting the frame rate is recommended as the game has no set FPS limit and Vsync is not supported.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in settings.xml[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit settings.xml.
  3. Set the ENGINE_RESOLUTION_X and ENGINE_RESOLUTION_Y values to the resolution you want.
  4. Save the changes and close the file.

Windowed

Modify settings.xml[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open settings.xml.
  3. Set the ENGINE_FULLSCREEN value to 0.
  4. Save the changes and close the file.

Input

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, sound FX, ambient, speech, UI sound and cut-scene.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpX forum.

Issues fixed

PhysX not installed

Download and install the PhysX legacy driver[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio FMOD
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1024 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB dedicated of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible 		256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  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).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. ↑ View topic - Helldorado - 21:9 FOV Fix(d) - last accessed on 2018-11-18
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Verified by User:Waschbär on 2018-11-18