King's Bounty: The Legend

King's Bounty
King's Bounty	1990
King's Bounty: The Legend	2008
King's Bounty: Armored Princess	2009
King's Bounty: Crossworlds	2010
King's Bounty: Warriors of the North	2012
King's Bounty: Legions	2013
King's Bounty: Dark Side	2014
King's Bounty II	2021

King's Bounty: The Legend is a singleplayer bird's-eye view TBS game in the King's Bounty series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 7 DRM. Russian and German copies use StarForce 5 DRM.
Epic Games Store
GamersGate

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam
ZOOM Platform
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable)		Crossworlds Platinum Version. Included King's Bounty: Armored Princess and King's Bounty: Crossworlds^[1]
Mac App Store (unavailable)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Kings Bounty\
macOS (OS X)	$HOME/Library/Application Support/King' s Bounty - The Legend/
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25900/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Kings Bounty\
macOS (OS X)	$HOME/Library/Application Support/King' s Bounty - The Legend/
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25900/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud

Video

Settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Native HUD for 4:3 and 16:10. Pillarbox for 16:9.
Multi-monitor		See Multi-Monitor. Pillarboxed 16:10.
Ultra-widescreen		Pillarboxed 16:10.
4K Ultra HD		Native HUD for 4:3 and 16:10. Pillarbox for 16:9.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Forced by any utility.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	200 Fps Cap
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Startup crash if launching the game when the resolution is no longer available. Fix by deleting or editing the configuration file.

Windowed

Set in game.ini^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open game.ini.
Change setf ~windowed 0 to setf ~windowed 1

Notes

Fullscreen bordered window requires adjusting setf ~screenresoultionx and setf ~screenresoultiony

Multi-Monitor

Set in game.ini
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `game.ini`. Change `setf ~r_use_adapter 0` to `setf ~r_use_adapter 1` for second monitor

16:9 aspect ratio without Pillarbox

The user "CkNoSFeRaTU" postet on the gog forum a mod to trick King´s Bounty into a 16:9 aspect ratio to have 16:9 resolution without pillarboxes.

Notes

All necessary files are text only, adjustments to languages other than english might be necessary.

Compatibility trusted with GOG an Retail version.

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Separate sliders for music and sound.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Polish				Windows only. Audio localization is available only in the local retail version.
Brazilian Portuguese				Retail only.
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz AMD Athlon 64 2800+	Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon 64 3200+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB (XP) 2 GB (Vista)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 6800 ATI Radeon X800 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce 7900 ATI Radeon X1900 512 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0c compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2.6 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM

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>/25900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (25900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Welcome to Games for Windows Marketplace - Games for Windows - last accessed on 19 August 2022

[Proton_path_note-2] 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>/25900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (25900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Welcome to Games for Windows Marketplace - Games for Windows - last accessed on 19 August 2022

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Developers

	Katauri Interactive
Publishers
2008-2018	1C Company
2018-2022	1C Entertainment
2022-present	Fulqrum Publishing
North America, retail only	Atari
Engines
	TheEngine
Release dates
Windows	April 25, 2008
macOS (OS X)	April 18, 2012
Reception
Metacritic	79
IGDB	87
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	TBS
Themes	Fantasy
Series	King's Bounty