Sea Dogs

Age of Pirates
Sea Dogs	2000
Pirates of the Caribbean	2003
Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales	2005
Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships	2007
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own	2012
Caribbean Legend	2024

Key points

Includes a game editor for adding or editing game content.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Disc check.
GOG.com
Steam
ZOOM Platform

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch is Patch 1.06 for international versions and Patch 1.061 for Russian versions.

Some retail re-releases already include the latest patch (the version is shown on the title screen).

Skip intro videos

Use replacement video files
Apply the Sea Dogs intro skip.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\engine.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/764670/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\RESOURCE\SAVES^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/764670/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game settings.

Config settings (Config.exe).

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Vert- with stretched UI; see Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	Sea Dogs is Vert-; FOV is always the same.
Windowed	Use reduced color mode or set desktop to 16-bit color to fix windowed color issues.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	On/off only; if it doesn't work or you want a higher setting, force it in the video card control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in engine.ini^{[citation needed]}

Go to the installation folder.
Edit engine.ini.
Change WINDOW_WIDTH and WINDOW_HEIGHT to the width and height of your resolution.
Save your changes.

Menus and other interface elements will be stretched, but 3D elements will have the correct aspect ratio.

Input

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

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound effects and Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Most dialogue is text-only but cutscenes and voices have no subtitles.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Polish				Local retail version only.
Russian				In full translation on the Official "Akella" version.

Issues fixed

Invisible text

Invisible text in-game.

The retail version may have invisible text in certain situations (such as when running on Windows 10) due to a font issue.

Replace broken fonts^[2]

Go to <path-to-game>\RESOURCE\INI\
Edit fonts.ini.
Replace all instances of log-russ, log-russ-Italic, and seawolf with arial (or another working font).

Notes

All in-game text will be readable but will not have the correct appearance due to the different font.

"DxInit: The operation is not supported" launch error

You have set a resolution your monitor does not support. Edit engine.ini and enter a supported resolution (see Widescreen resolution).

Other information

Game editor

Sea Dogs includes a hidden editor that can be used to add or edit quests, equipment, characters, etc.

Enable editor^{[citation needed]}

Go to the installation folder.
Edit engine.ini.
Change CORE_MODULE core to CORE_MODULE tools_launcher
Save your changes.

Notes

Choosing Game from the Tools Launcher will return to the game and reset this change. Repeat to re-enable.

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95 OSR2	98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 233 MHz	Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	650 MB	800 MB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM	16 MB of VRAM

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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (764670) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

[gamedir-2] 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).

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (764670) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (764670) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[1] PT Boats game by Akella

[4] Sea Dogs FAQ/Walkthrough for PC by ghighnote - GameFAQs

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[Note 2]

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Developers

	Akella
Engines
	Storm^[1]
Release dates
Windows	November 27, 2000