Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
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Developers | |
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Liquid Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Original | Atari |
Budget retail re-releases | Sold Out Software |
Current | Hasbro |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 25, 2005 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Multiple select, Point and select |
Genres | Strategy, RTS, RPG |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | Dungeons & Dragons |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Gold Box (series) | |
Silver Box (series) | |
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Icewind Dale (series) | |
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor | 2001 |
The Temple of Elemental Evil | 2003 |
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone | 2004 |
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard | 2005 |
Dungeons & Dragons Online | 2006 |
Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale | 2011 |
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara | 2013 |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance | 2021 |
Warnings
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view strategy, RTS and RPG game in the Dungeons & Dragons series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1] in international releases, StarForce DRM in Russian release. | |||
GOG.com |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org and GamePressure.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Official patches can be found on Patches-Scrolls.
Skip intro movies
Run the game with the -nointro command line argument
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Dragonshard\ |
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.pro
files contain configurations for individual game profiles, editing possible with notepad.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Dragonshard\ |
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Saves
contains individual save games. -
Profiles
contains profiles and campaign progress.
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See the WSGF entry. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Set desktop resolution in-game then toggle with Alt+↵ Enter. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | On/off only. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | On/off only. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Disabled by default. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | No frame rate cap. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, Voice and Effects. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Game mutes and pauses. | |
EAX support | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | Retail only. | |||
Polish | ||||
Russian |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | |||
Online play | GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Issues fixed
"An unhandled exception has occurred" when choosing GameSpy multiplayer
Temporarily disconnect internet[4] |
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VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D, Z3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9.0c |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | PhysX | |
Multiplayer | GameSpy |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | 2 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2.5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
Notes
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Pricing | GameSpy Technology
- ↑ Unhandled exception when selecting online multiplayer, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023