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Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon

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Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon
Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon cover
Developers
Revolution Software
Publishers
THQ
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows November 17, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Genres Adventure
Themes Fantasy, Detective/mystery
Series Broken Sword
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Broken Sword
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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

Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon 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 5 DRM (EU). StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] (US).
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Press Enter to skip directly to the title screen.
Move, delete or rename video file[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\movies\pal.
  2. Move, delete or rename the file logos.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Settings can be saved only if game is run as administrator.
System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Revolution\BSTSD\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33610/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saves\[Note 4]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33610/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

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

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
4:3 stretched.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Game fails to start.
4K Ultra HD
Resolution is available, but stretched.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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 and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

In-game input settings.
In-game input settings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game subtitle settings.
In-game subtitle settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound Effects and Speech.
Surround sound
5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Polish
Russian
Official localization by "1C". Local retail release only. Patch for digital version.
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Issues Fixed

Vsync doesn't work on Windows 10

Use DirectX 9 convertor
  1. Download the d3d8to9.
  2. Copy d3d8.dll to <path-to-game> .

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Vista, 7, 8, 10 (Steam)
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 750 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
1 GB (Steam)
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 2
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/33610/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (33610) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  4. 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).

References