Night Watch
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Developers | |
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Nival Interactive | |
Publishers | |
Cdv Software Entertainment | |
Russia | Noviy Disk |
Engines | |
Silent Storm Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | August 18, 2005 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 47 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time, Turn-based |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | RPG |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | World of Watches |
World of Watches | |
---|---|
Mafia Racing | 2005 |
Night Watch | 2005 |
Day Watch | 2007 |
Warnings
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
Night Watch is a singleplayer bird's-eye view RPG game in the World of Watches series.
General information
- Official website (archived)
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] | |||
Retail | Czech abc release by Prague promotion |
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.01 is the latest patch for the game.
Unable to boot / Unknown Error
- d3d9.dll find the d3d9.dll fix on the page and put it in the Night Watch\Run folder to solve this problem.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | None, x2, x4, x8, x16 | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Cannot be disabled (Low, Medium, High, Very high) | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | Edit <path-to-game>\cfg\nwinput.cfg |
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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 | Sound, Music, Character quotes mutable | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
German | ||||
Polish | ||||
Russian | ||||
Czech | Retail abc release by Prague promotion. |
Changing language to English
- Download English Patch 1.01. Extract it with UniExtract and copy run directory into the game folder.
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 9.0c |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 2000 | XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 3 1 GHz AMD Athlon 1 GHz |
Intel Pentium 3 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon 2.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 8500 T&L-compatible 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible | Nvidia GeForce FX ATI Radeon 9700 T&L-compatible 128 MB of VRAM |
Other | 4x CD-ROM Drive |