Hoyle Battling Ships and War
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Developers | |
---|---|
Sierra On-Line | |
Release dates | |
Windows 3.x | 1998 |
Windows | 1998 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Genres | Board, Card/tile |
Series | Hoyle's Official Book of Games |
Hoyle Battling Ships and War is a singleplayer and multiplayer board and card/tile game in the Hoyle's Official Book of Games series.
Key points
- The official multiplayer service is no longer available
- Comes bundled with internet-only versions of Backgammon, Checkers, Chess, Chinese Checkers, and Yacht
- Windows Freecell is included on the CD
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\user*[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | The window adjusts to any resolution, but the actual game area stays 640x480. | ||
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) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Local play | 2 | Hot seat War only. |
||
LAN play | ||||
Online play | 2 | For most games. Requires Windows 95. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Executable | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Windows | Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm. |
System requirements
Windows 3.x | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 3.1 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 486DX 66 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 15 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA |
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium | |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
Notes
- ↑ 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).