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Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny

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Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny
Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny cover
Developers
Westwood Studios
Publishers
1997-1998 Virgin Interactive
1998-present Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS September 27, 1997
Windows September 27, 1997
Windows (DOSBox) November 15, 2011
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) October 18, 2012
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Lands of Lore
Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny on HowLongToBeat
Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny on IGDB
Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny guide on StrategyWiki
Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny on MobyGames
Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny on Wikipedia
Lands of Lore
Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos 1993
Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny 1997
Lands of Lore III 1999

Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny is a singleplayer first-person RPG game in the Lands of Lore series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos. Pre-packaged with DOSBox[1] and pre-configured with nGlide.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
Not available in all regions.[2]
Windows

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video

In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
Can be selected in-game by setting Music Type to Digital.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Stuttering mouse/black boxes around objects with hardware acceleration

Even with this fix, there is some minor stuttering with the videos.
Update DOSBox/nGlide[3]
  1. Install nGlide.
  2. Download DOSBox SVN Daum.
  3. Extract into the game's DOSBox folder, replacing the existing files.
  4. Launch the game using the 3Dfx shortcut in the Start screen/Start menu.
  5. In-game, go to Options\Hardware Acceleration.
  6. Enable "Acceleration".
  7. Play the game.

Game crashes while speaking to Baccata at the Huline Village Cantina

Edit dosboxLOL2_single.conf in the games main directory[4]
  1. Open the file with a Text editor like Notepad++ (make a backup first.)
  2. Look for lolg.exe -CD ..
  3. Add the line -LOWMEM at the end so it should look like: lolg.exe -CD . -LOWMEM
  4. Launch the game, graphics will be set to low, dont change it and play the cutscene in the Cantina
  5. Save the game after leaving the Cantina and exit
  6. Change the file back to its default to value lolg.exe -CD ..
  7. Play the game and change settings back to your preference

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes MCGA, VGA, SVGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 80486 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 MB
Video card (GPU) MCGA-compliant graphics card
Other 4x CD-ROM drive
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 130 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA/XGA-compliant graphics card
DirectX 3.0a compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM drive
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.

References

  1. List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Verified by User:Plok on 2023-11-06
    Inaccessible from Croatia, confirmed available in the UK.
  3. need your help: i'am very close to run LOL2 with nglide wrapper without problem, but..., page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  4. gog.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023