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Betrayal at Krondor

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Betrayal at Krondor
Betrayal at Krondor cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Dynamix
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Activision
Release dates
DOS June 22, 1993
Windows (DOSBox) March 30, 2010[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person, Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select, Direct control
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Krondor
Betrayal at Krondor on HowLongToBeat
Betrayal at Krondor on IGDB
Betrayal at Krondor on MobyGames
Betrayal at Krondor on Wikipedia
Krondor
Betrayal at Krondor 1993
Betrayal in Antara 1997
Return to Krondor 1998

Betrayal at Krondor is a singleplayer first-person and bird's-eye view RPG game in the Krondor series.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2] Comes bundled with Betrayal in Antara.
Windows
Steam
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Comes bundled with Betrayal in Antara.
Windows
A demo and a shareware version are available from Archive.org.

Essential Improvements

Prevent stretching in DOSBox

Change DOSBox Settings[3]

Since the game runs on a resolution of 320×200, it is slightly stretched if played with DOSBox. To prevent this, change the DOSBox settings.

  1. Open dosboxBAK.conf in the game directory with an editor
  2. Find the line that reads “aspect=false” and change it to “aspect=true”

Improved music

Follow this guide to get MIDI soundtrack with (limited) voice acting, which is more dynamic and doesn't randomly stop like the CD music.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\KRONDOR.CFG
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/559640/pfx/[Note 2]
KRONDOR.CFG, the game's main configuration file, is not designed to be human-readable.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\GAMES\
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/559640/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.
Setup utility settings.
Setup utility settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound, music, combat music; on/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Dialogue and narration is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Cannot be disabled.
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
The CD tracks are very short and do not loop, so longer combat sequences end up being completely silent. Also, the tracks do not dynamically fade out, so you get sudden scene transitions. Can be deactivated in the menu.
General MIDI audio
Prevents digital sound effects and voiced dialogue from playing when enabled. See Improved music for how to prevent this.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for digital versions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 80386SX
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/559640/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (559640) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. New release: Betrayal at Krondor ● GOG.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  2. List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  3. instructions - last accessed on May 2023