Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

Gabriel Knight
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers	1993
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery	1995
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned	1999
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers - 20th Anniversary Edition	2014

Key points

Potentially confusing controls, with the protagonist and the camera controlled independently.

General information

Gabriel Knight Omnipedia - Wiki for the series

Sierra Gamers - Game page on Ken Williams' official website

The Sierra Help Pages - Extensive troubleshooting guide

Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature on the series

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Requires CDs at specific points in the story.
GOG.com
Steam

Essential improvements[edit]

Updated installer[edit]

The Sierra Help Pages Installer for the retail release allows the whole game to be installed to the hard drive, and addresses compatibility issues of the original installer.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sierra On-Line\Gabriel Knight 3\Engine\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/497360/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save Games\^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/497360/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video[edit]

Video settings

Game options

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Maximum selectable resolution of 1024x768. For higher resolutions see Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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/refresh rate cap.

Widescreen resolution[edit]

Set resolution in registry^[1]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Change (default) and Screen Height to the desired height (values must match).
Change Screen Width to the desired width.

(alternative) Add Command line arguments^[2]

Run the game with the following parameters: -width XXXX -height YYYY
where XXXX represents your desired horizontal and YYYY vertical resolution.

Input[edit]

Key mapping

Camera controls

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio[edit]

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		General, Voices, SFX, Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French				Retail release only.
German				Retail release only.
Italian				Retail release only.
Polish				Retail release only.
Portuguese				Retail release only.
Spanish				Retail version, download.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6.1
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz	Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	137 MB	403 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible	3D Accelerated card

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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>/497360/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (497360) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ 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

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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>/497360/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (497360) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[gamedir-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).

[3] Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned | WSGF

[4] Gabriel Knight 3 Help - The Sierra Help Pages

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Developers

	Sierra On-Line
Publishers
	Activision
Release dates
Windows	November 18, 1999
Reception
Metacritic	80
IGDB	70