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Revision as of 12:04, 15 September 2021

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This page is for the 2018 trilogy remake. For the original games, see The Bard's Tale, The Bard's Tale II, and The Bard's Tale III. For the 2005 reboot, see The Bard's Tale (2005).

The Bard's Tale Trilogy
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Developers
Krome Studios
Publishers
inXile Entertainment
Engines
Unity 2017[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows August 14, 2018
macOS (OS X) November 26, 2019[2]
The Bard's Tale Trilogy on MobyGames
The Bard's Tale
The Bard's Tale 1987
The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight 1988
The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate 1990
The Bard's Tale Construction Set 1991
The Bard's Tale (2005) 2005
The Mage's Tale 2017
The Bard's Tale Trilogy 2018
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep 2018
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut 2019

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\InXile Entertainment\The Bard's Tale Trilogy
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/843260/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\InXile Entertainment\The Bard's Tale Trilogy\saves
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/843260/pfx/[Note 2]
Only one autosave is available for all three games. Properly saving before exiting the game is highly recommended.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
UI spans the screen. Text is consistently between monitor edges at 16:3 (3x screen Eyefinity/Surround). Game is playable, but not optimal.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Used instead of exclusive fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Framerate locked to display refresh rate.[3]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Gameplay settings.
Gameplay settings.
"Legacy" settings. These options disable and tweak features to mimic the gameplay of the original releases.
"Legacy" settings.
These options disable and tweak features to mimic the gameplay of the original releases.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
WASD keys for movement can be replaced with ESDF.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Default mouse cursor is used in all gameplay.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and SFX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Dialogue is text-based without spoken audio.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Game is not muted, but when in-game, the pause menu (which can be triggered on focus lost) will have no audio.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Spanish
Russian

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 SP1, 8, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Intel Core i5-2500K (if using integrated Intel GPU)
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 11 compatible
Shader model 4.0 support
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.14
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics 5000
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2017.4.2f2[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Cptmold on 2019-07-12
  2. Steam :: The Bard's Tale Trilogy :: macOS Support added - Build 4.34 Released - last accessed on 2020-04-03
  3. Verified by User:Cptmold on 2019-07-13
    Checked at 60 Hz and 144 Hz using non-intensive options and scenes.