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People's General

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People's General
People's General cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations Inc.
Publishers
North America Strategic Simulations Inc.
Europe Mindscape
Engines
Living Battlefield
Release dates
Windows September 14, 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres TBS, Wargame, Strategy
Themes Asia
Series Panzer General
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People's General is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view TBS, wargame and strategy game in the Panzer General series.

General information

Released in Germany as Dynasty General.
Die PanzerLiga, a multiplayer community for Five-Star General, Panzer Corps and Strategic Command series
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Uses GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper.
Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Skip intro video

Move, delete or rename the intro video
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Cine
  2. Move, delete or rename the intro.mov file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\PEOPLES.INT[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

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
Controller types

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
Versus, Hot seat
LAN play
Versus
Online play
Versus
The official MPlayer.com service has been shut down.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes QuickTime
Multiplayer MPlayer.com

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6 compatible
Other 8x CD-ROM drive


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).

References