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Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut

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For the original game released in 1996, see Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut cover
Developers
Revolution Software
Publishers
Kalypso Media
Engines
Virtual Theatre
Release dates
Windows September 2, 2010
macOS (OS X) September 2, 2010
Linux June 18, 2013
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Detective/mystery, Europe, Middle East
Series Broken Sword
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut on IGDB
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut on MobyGames
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut on Wikipedia
Broken Sword
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars 1996
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror 1997
Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon 2003
Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death (Secrets of the Ark) 2006
Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars (unofficial) 2008
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered 2009
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut 2010
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse 2013
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged 2024
Broken Sword - Parzival's Stone 2024

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut is a singleplayer adventure game in the Broken Sword series.

General information

Developer Discord server
Broken Sword Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GamersGate
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes the original Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM-free
Includes Android version.
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Original Version Steam. Available for free.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename revlogo.ogv[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\movies\.
  2. Delete or rename revlogo.ogv.

Replace in-game font

The default font used by in-game help and diary is difficult to read at high resolutions
Substitute with a system font[citation needed]
  1. Go to the hidden system folder %WINDIR%\Fonts\.
  2. Copy the fonts verdana.ttf and verdanab.ttf to <path-to-game>\.
  3. Rename verdana.ttf to LinLibertine_Re-4.4.1.ttf and verdanab.ttf to LinLibertine_Bd-4.1.0.ttf, overwriting the existing files.

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Broken Sword - Director's Cut\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Broken Sword - Director's Cut
Linux $HOME/.bs1dc/
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Broken Sword - Director's Cut\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Broken Sword - Director's Cut
Linux $HOME/.bs1dc/

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

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 4:3 resolutions are supported: 640x480 windowed ("original"), 960x720 windowed ("augmented") and 1600x1200 pillarboxed ("fullscreen").
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
100 FPS cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
No option. Uses operating system's cursor.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game language settings.
In-game language settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
SFX, music and speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Option exists, but not shown in FMV.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Russian
Official localization by 1C-Softclub. Local retail only
Spanish

Issues fixed

Erratic cursor movement in full screen mode

Replace the sprite cursor with the hardware cursor

Using a hex editor, open the game's executable and replace the hex "E8 6E 79 00 00" with "90 90 90 90 90."

Game does not run, no error

Install OpenAL

The developers failed to bundle the OpenAL installer with the game on Steam. Download from https://www.openal.org/downloads/oalinst.zip


Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL
Interface SDL 1.2
Cutscenes Theora

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM


References