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Orcs Must Die!

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Orcs Must Die!
Orcs Must Die! cover
Developers
Robot Entertainment
Engines
Vision
Release dates
Windows October 12, 2011
Reception
Metacritic 83
IGDB 86
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Fantasy
Series Orcs Must Die!
Orcs Must Die! on HowLongToBeat
Orcs Must Die! on IGDB
Orcs Must Die! on MobyGames
Orcs Must Die! on Wikipedia
Orcs Must Die!
Orcs Must Die! 2011
Orcs Must Die! 2 2012
Orcs Must Die! Unchained 2017
Orcs Must Die! 3 2021

Orcs Must Die! is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action and shooter game in the Orcs Must Die! series.

General information

Orcs Must Die! Wiki - A small wiki for the Orcs Must Die! series
Official Forums
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
[1]
Windows
A non-Steam version is available in China on Tencent Games Platform.[2]
A free demo is available on Steam: steam://install/102610

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Artifacts of Power
Windows
Lost Adventures
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\startup\user.cfg[Note 1]
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Orcs Must Die\VideoSettings.xml
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/102600/pfx/[Note 2]
VideoSettings.xml includes resolution, Vsync and MSAA. user.cfg has to be created by user.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\startup[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/102600/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Windowed

Edit user.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open user.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Add new line Window.
  4. Save the changes.

High frame rate

Set frame rate cap[4]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open user.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Add new line Forcefps=XX and replace XX with desired value.
  4. Save the changes.

Input

The default keyboard/mouse layout for Orcs Must Die!
The default keyboard/mouse layout for Orcs Must Die!
The gamepad layout for Orcs Must Die!
The gamepad layout for Orcs Must Die!

Remapping

Edit user.cfg[5]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open user.cfg
  3. Copy and paste the following to user.cfg, uncomment key you want to rebind and change key to desired one.
Key bindings settings
// Sample Key Bindings
// Uncomment and remap to your liking (delete the // marks at the beginning of the line)
// Only the commands listed below support key remappings.

//KeyBinding_Forward="w"
//KeyBinding_Backward="s"
//KeyBinding_Left="a"
//KeyBinding_Right="d"
//KeyBinding_Run="lshift"
//KeyBinding_Jump="space"
//KeyBinding_Go="g"
//KeyBinding_Book="b"
//KeyBinding_Weavers="v"
//KeyBinding_Map="m"
//KeyBinding_Bloodmap="l"
//KeyBinding_SellTrap="e"
//KeyBinding_RotateTrap="r"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_1="1"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_2="2"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_3="-"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_4="4"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_5="5"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_6="6"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_7="7"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_8="8"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_9="9"
//KeyBinding_ActionBar_0="0"

// The following list is a complete list of valid keys that can be used for remapping
//
// Abbrevation Key(s)
//------------ --------------
// a - z letters
// 0 - 9 numerals
// , comma
// . period
// - minus
// ~ tilde
// ins INS
// del DEL
// home HOME
// end END
// pgup PGUP
// pgdn PGDN
// up up arrow
// down down arrow
// left left arrow
// right right arrow
// space space bar
// lshift left shift (single key mapping only - not to be used as a modifier)
// rshift right shift (single key mapping only - not to be used as a modifier)
// kp_slash Keypad /
// kp_mul Keypad *
// kp_minus Keypad -
// kp_plus Keypad plus
// kp_enter Keypad enter
// kp_period Keypad period
// kp_0 Keypad 0
// kp_1 Keypad 1
// kp_2 Keypad 2
// kp_3 Keypad 3
// kp_4 Keypad 4
// kp_5 Keypad 5
// kp_6 Keypad 6
// kp_7 Keypad 7
// kp_8 Keypad 8
// kp_9 Keypad 9 
  • Save the changes.

Alternative keyboard layouts

Edit configuration file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open user.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Add new line Keyboardlayout="XXXXX" and replace XXXXX with either azerty, qwerty or qwertz to force said keyboard layout.
  4. Save the changes.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

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

Issues fixed

Black boxes on flaming arrows

This issue is most likely caused by incompatibility with certain graphics cards. It can be avoided by lowering the graphics detail slider in the game's options.[citation needed]

Bladestaff alt-fire crash

Most recent game patches should have addressed this issue. If still experiencing this with Nvidia SLI setup, try following fix.
Nvidia Control Panel[citation needed]
  1. Open the Nvidia Control Panel and click 'Manage 3D Settings'.
  2. Click on the 'Program Settings' tab and click Add, before selecting orcsmustdie.exe located in <path-to-game>\Build\release.
  3. Scroll through the 'Feature' list until 'SLI Rendering Mode' is visible, and set this to 'Force alternate frame rendering 1', accepting the warning box which will appear.
  4. Click Apply.

"Failed To Correctly Load Data Files", "Failed To Initialise Engine"

Most recent game patches should have addressed this issue.
Make sure the minimum requirements are met[citation needed]
Verify game cache with Steam[citation needed]
Reinstall game[citation needed]
Install DirectX and Visual C++ runtimes in <path-to-game>\Installer as administrator and reboot the system.[citation needed]

"ERROR: Failed to load 'shaders\FixedFunctionShaders\ShaderLib'. Engine will not run."

This error can occur if the game is not installed on the C drive.
Move or install the game on the C drive to resolve this issue.[6]

Missing Knight of the Order DLC

This issue is most likely to occur with pre-ordered versions of the game, and results in the Knight of the Order DLC not appearing in game.

Delete vdf file to force re-creating[citation needed]
  1. Close the Steam client if it is open.
  2. Go to <Steam-folder>\appcache
  3. Delete appinfo.vdf
  4. Restart Steam.

This file will then automatically be recreated and the DLC should appear in-game.

Object/unit placement glitch

This issue involves incorrect positioning of many character models and equipment. Orcs may appear stuck in the ground and their heads will be colliding with the floor mesh.
This issue may occur if a machine is below the minimum requirements to run the game, especially those with single-core processors, as the game is optimized to distribute animation-related processes to a second core.
If a computer has two or more processor cores but is still encountering this issue, ensure that the OrcsMustDie.exe process has core affinity set to at least two cores.

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
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio FMOD

Customize orc content of existing levels

Orcs Must Die! has a limited capacity for modding; the developers implemented the ability to be able to customise the content of orc waves for existing levels. To do this, go to <path-to-game>\Data\. From here you will need to create a new folder called 'mod', and another folder within it named 'onslaughts'.

By editing the default onslaught files (downloadable here) and putting them in this folder, you can use your custom levels essentially as an override so that the game will load your levels. Note that you should not rename levels when editing them as the game will no longer recognise them. Also of importance is the fact that using these overrides disables leaderboard scoring and statistics for as long as you are using the modified onslaughts. To return the game to its original state after modification, simply delete the contents of the onslaughts folder.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz dual core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
ATI Radeon x1950
256 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 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>/102600/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (102600) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References