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Of Orcs and Men

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Of Orcs and Men
Of Orcs and Men cover
Developers
Cyanide
Spiders
Publishers
Focus Home Interactive
Engines
Silk
Release dates
Windows October 11, 2012
Reception
Metacritic 69
Of Orcs and Men on HowLongToBeat
Of Orcs and Men on IGDB
Of Orcs and Men on MobyGames
Of Orcs and Men on Wikipedia
Styx
Of Orcs and Men 2012
Styx: Master of Shadows 2014
Styx: Shards of Darkness 2017

General information

Official website
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
Requires online activation
ActControl DRM.
Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use No Intro Mod[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Of Orcs and Men\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/216910/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Of Orcs and Men\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/216910/pfx/[Note 1]

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 settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Field of view (FOV)

Change FOV[1]
  1. Download and install 7-Zip
  2. Go to <path-to-game>\paks\
  3. Right-click sli.spk and choose 7-Zip → Extract to "sli\"
  4. Open sli\ and extract sli_uncompressed.spk to "sli_uncompressed\"
  5. Open \sli_uncompressed\engine\ and open globalsettings.sli with a text editor
  6. Change <FOV value="45" /> to the desired FOV (e.g. <FOV value="75" />)
  7. Right-click sli_uncompressed\ and choose 7-Zip → Add to archive...
    1. Set Archive format: 7z
    2. Set Compression level: Store
    3. Click OK
  8. Rename sli_uncompressed.7z to sli_uncompressed.spk
  9. Right-click the sli_uncompressed.spk you just renamed and choose 7-Zip → Add to archive...
    1. Set Archive format: 7z
    2. Set Compression level: store
    3. Click OK
  10. Rename sli_uncompressed.spk.gz to sli.spk
  11. Replace the original sli.spk in <path-to-game>\paks\ with the modified one

Input settings

Control settings.
Control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

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

Issues fixed

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 100 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.
Set screen refresh rate[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open graphicconfig.txt.
  3. Change REFRESHRATE to your desired refresh rate. (e.g. 120 or 144)

VR support

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

Other information

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 3850
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 4.0 support

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References