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Lords of the Realm

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Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm cover
Developers
Impressions Games
Publishers
DOS, Amiga Impressions Games
Windows retail Crucial Entertainment
Digital Rebellion Developments
Release dates
DOS 1994
Windows 1997
Windows (DOSBox) July 30, 2009
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) April 23, 2013[1]
Linux (DOSBox) February 21, 2024[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Europe, Medieval
Series Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm on HowLongToBeat
Lords of the Realm on MobyGames
Lords of the Realm on Wikipedia
Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm 1994
Lords of the Realm II 1996
Lords of the Realm III 2003

Lords of the Realm is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view strategy game in the Lords of the Realm series.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Floppy (pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]) and CD versions.
Bundled with Lords of the Realm II.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Floppy version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Floppy (pre-packaged with DOSBox-staging) and CD (pre-packaged with DDrawCompat) versions.
Bundled with Lords of the Realm II.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
A free demo version is available from Archive.org and SierraHelp.

Version differences

The floppy version is DOS-native.
The CD version is Windows-native.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\LORDS.INF
Windows <path-to-game>\LORDS.INF[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254920/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.SAV
Windows <path-to-game>\*.SAV[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254920/pfx/[Note 3]
Germany CD version save files are *.svg instead of *.sav.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 only. Windows version runs at 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Not supported for native CD version. Toggle with Alt+ Enter when using DOSBox.
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
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
German retail only. Not available digitally.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
6 Hot seat
LAN play
2 When using DOSBox; DOS version only.
Online play
2 Using IPX tunneling; DOS version only.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
When using DOSBox.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 486DX/2-66
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA 640x480x256 colors
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
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. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/254920/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (254920) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References