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Of Orcs and Men

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Of Orcs and Men
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Developers
Cyanide Studio
Spiders
Publishers
Focus Home Interactive
Russia 1C-SoftClub
Engines
Silk
Release dates
Windows October 11, 2012
Reception
Metacritic 69
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
Art styles Realistic
Themes Fantasy
Series Styx
Of Orcs and Men on HowLongToBeat
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Of Orcs and Men on Wikipedia
Styx
Of Orcs and Men 2012
Styx: Master of Shadows 2014
Styx: Shards of Darkness 2017

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
[1]
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use intro skip[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Of Orcs and Men\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/216910/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Of Orcs and Men\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/216910/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

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

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Text and HUD elements do not scale at higher resolutions.
Field of view (FOV)
Default FOV is 45°. See 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)
FXAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
Frame rate is capped at ⁓81 FPS.
120+ FPS
See Run the game at screen refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Field of view (FOV)

Change FOV[2]

sli.spk is a gzip archive. Inside of it is sli_uncompressed.spk, which is a 7z archive.

  1. Download and install 7-Zip
  2. Go to <path-to-game>\paks\
  3. Right-click sli.spk and choose 7-Zip → Extract to "sli\"
  4. Open sli\ and extract sli_uncompressed.spk to "sli_uncompressed\"
  5. Open \sli_uncompressed\engine\ and open globalsettings.sli with a text editor
  6. Change <FOV value="45" /> to the desired FOV (e.g. <FOV value="75" />)
  7. Right-click sli_uncompressed\ and choose 7-Zip → Add to archive...
    1. Set Archive format: 7z
    2. Set Compression level: Store
    3. Click OK
  8. Rename sli_uncompressed.7z to sli_uncompressed.spk
  9. Right-click the sli_uncompressed.spk you just renamed and choose 7-Zip → Add to archive...
    1. Set Archive format: gzip
    2. Set Compression level: Normal
    3. Click OK
  10. Rename sli_uncompressed.spk.gz to sli.spk
  11. Replace the original sli.spk in <path-to-game>\paks\ with the modified one

Input

Control settings.
Control settings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, effects, music and voices.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

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

Issues fixed

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 100 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.
Set screen refresh rate[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open graphicconfig.txt.
  3. Change REFRESHRATE to your desired refresh rate. (e.g. 120 or 144)

Yellow artifacts

Fix yellow artifacts[3]
  1. Download DXVK here.
  2. Extract the contents of the dxvk-*.tar.gz file with 7zip or WinRAR.
  3. Copy d3d9.dll from the x32 folder and paste it in the game's installation folder.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 4.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 3850
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 4.0 support


Notes

  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>/216910/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (216910) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Origin - Products - last accessed on 7 June 2022
  2. Change FOV :: Of Orcs And Men General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Fix yellow artifacts :: Of Orcs And Men General Discussions - last accessed on 2021-08-12