Realms of Arkania: Star Trail

Realms of Arkania: Star Trail

Developers
	Attic Entertainment Software
Publishers
	Sir-Tech
	U.S. Gold
	Fantasy Productions
Release dates
DOS	September 1994
Windows	2009
macOS (OS X)	June 18, 2013
Linux	March 14, 2014

Realms of Arkania
Subseries of The Dark Eye
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny	1992
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail	1994
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva	1996
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (2013)	2013
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail (2017)	2017

Key points

Characters can be imported from Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (see Import characters).

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Floppies or CD-ROM.
GamersGate
GOG.com		Includes Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Steam		Pre-packaged with DOSBox.

The manual is needed to answer copy protection questions (see passwords.pdf for digital versions).

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Speech Pack

Version differences

The English version has MIDI music whereas the German version has CD music; it is possible to Use CD music in English version.

Essential improvements

Import characters

Copy save files (non-OS X)
Go to the Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny installation folder. Copy the *.GAM files. Go to the Star Trail installation folder. Go into the GAMES folder and paste the Blade of Destiny files. Run the game and load the save you want. The party will be imported.

Copy save files (GOG.com OS X)[citation needed]

Open a Finder window. Open the Go menu and choose Go to Folder. Paste the following and click OK: ~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States Go into com.game.realms-of-arkania-1 Right-click Current.boxerstate and choose Show Package Contents. Go into C Realms of Arkania 1.harddisk Copy the saves (*.GAM). Go back to the Gamebox States folder. Go into com.gog.realms-of-arkania-2 Right-click Current.boxerstate and choose Show Package Contents. Go into C Realms of Arkania 2.harddisk Go into GAMES and paste the saves here. Run the game and load the save you want. The party will be imported.

Use CD music in English version

These steps change the German CD version to use English text. This requires the German CD version (GOG.com has both).

The intro and some minor game text will still be in German.

To have German speech with English subtitles copy only STAR.DAT from the English folder.

NPCs will have 50x their normal XP value when you recruit them, as the English version uses has a multiplier for all XP gained or required. This can be fixed by hex-editing STAR.DAT, but must be done from a save from before the NPC is recruited to prevent excessive stat increases.

Use CD music in English version
Go to DATA in the English installation folder. Copy SPEECH.DAT, SPEECH.FN, SPEECHCD.DAT, SPEECHCD.FN and STAR.DAT. Go to DATA in the German installation folder. Paste the files here, replacing existing files when prompted. Delete DPATCH.DAT. Use the German version of the game which will now be in English.

Game data

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\GAMES\*.GAM
Windows	<path-to-game>\GAMES\*.GAM
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.realms-of-arkania-2/Current.boxerstate/C Realms of Arkania 2.harddisk/GAMES
Linux

Generated characters are stored in <path-to-game>\GAMES\CHARS1.DAT; this file is not needed for loading save games (characters are stored in each save).

In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.

Exported diary and character sheet files are saved in <path-to-game>

Diary and character sheet data is saved to file when Print to is set to File in Game Options (F3). To print from within the game see printer support.

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.

Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German

Issues fixed

No voices (GOG.com)

GOG.com's Windows version is incorrectly configured.

Fix DOSBox IRQ[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Edit dosbox_realms2.conf. Change irq=7 to irq=5 and save your changes. Voices will now work correctly in-game.

Printer support

Official DOSBox builds don't support printing.

Enable printer support[citation needed]
Set up DOSBox printer support. For the GOG.com version the file to edit is dosboxrealms2.conf in the installation folder. For the GOG.com version also copy the FONTS folder from the DOSBox folder into the Realms of Arkania 2 folder. Journal pages and character sheets can now be printed when Print to is set to Printer in Game Options (F3).

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes

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

System requirements

DOS

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	5.0
Processor (CPU)	386DX/33
System memory (RAM)	4 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	30 MB
Video card (GPU)	VGA

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz		1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB		512 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	150 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7.0 compatible		DirectX 9.0 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM