Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard

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Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard cover
Developers
Liquid Entertainment
Publishers
Hasbro Interactive
Release dates
Windows September 25, 2005
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\DND.ini[Note 2]

Save game data location[edit]

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Dragonshard\
Saves contains individual save games.
Profiles contains profiles and campaign progress.

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings[edit]

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
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.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Voice and Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Game mutes and pauses.
EAX support

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed[edit]

"An unhandled exception has occurred" when choosing GameSpy multiplayer[edit]

Temporarily disconnect internet[4]
  1. Disconnect from the internet.
  2. Choose the GameSpy option in-game.
  3. Reconnect to the internet.
  4. Return to the game and continue normally.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware[edit]

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. ↑ 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

  1. ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  2. ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  3. ↑ Pricing | GameSpy Technology
  4. ↑ Unhandled exception when selecting online multiplayer, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com