Europa 1400: The Guild

The Guild
Europa 1400: The Guild	2002
The Guild II	2006
The Guild II: Pirates of the European Seas	2007
The Guild II: Venice	2008
The Guild II: Renaissance	2010
The Guild 3	2022

Europa 1400: The Guild is a singleplayer bird's-eye view business and strategy game in the The Guild series.

General information

Offical Nordic Games Support Forum

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 4 DRM in base game, SecuROM 5 DRM in Gold Edition.
GamersGate		Gold Edition.
		Gold Edition.
GOG.com		Gold Edition.
Green Man Gaming		Gold Edition.
Humble Store		Gold Edition.
Steam		Gold Edition.

Version differences

The Gold Edition includes the base game and the expansion.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Gaukler, Gruften & Geschütze	Available separately only in the German-speaking market

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches for non-German versions can be found here.

For the German versions see: Main game, The expansion and Gold Edition.

Skip intro videos

Change parameters in game.ini
Go to the installation folder. Open `game.ini`. Change `show_intro=1` to `show_intro=0`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\game.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39520/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\resources\gamedata\Saves^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39520/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Change Bildmodus=FULLSCREEN in =DIRECTWINDOW in game.ini and use TL.exe to run the game
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		No frame rate cap.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Press `F12` in-game to remap hotkeys.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Change invert_mouse=0 to =1 in game.ini
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio settings.

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8
Online play

Connection types

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

Issues unresolved

Crash on launch

Run T&L executable^{[citation needed]}
Go to the installation folder. Run `TL.exe` or `Europa1400Gold_TL.exe`.

Low frame rate and missing graphics stuff

Extract DDrawCompat to the game directory^[1]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System	6.1c^[2]

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 400 MHz	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	852 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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).
↑ ^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>/39520/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (39520) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Reference
↑ Verified by User:Nessy on 2020-07-23
Version number found in Mss32.dll in the game installation folder.

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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).

[Proton_path_note-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>/39520/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (39520) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[3] Reference

[4] Verified by User:Nessy on 2020-07-23
Version number found in Mss32.dll in the game installation folder.

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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Developers

	4 Head Studios
Publishers
2002-2011	JoWood Productions
2011-2016	Nordic Games
2016-present	THQ Nordic
Release dates
Windows	October 25, 2002
Reception
Metacritic	82
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Business, Strategy
Themes	Medieval
Series	The Guild