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Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva

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Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva cover
Developers
Attic Entertainment Software
Publishers
Retail (USA) Sir-Tech
Retail (UK) U.S. Gold
Retail (Germany) Fantasy Productions
Digital United Independent Entertainment
Release dates
DOS 1996
Windows (DOSBox) October 15, 2009[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) June 18, 2013
Linux (DOSBox) March 14, 2014[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person, Isometric
Controls Direct control
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Realms of Arkania
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva on HowLongToBeat
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva on IGDB
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva on MobyGames
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva on Wikipedia
Realms of Arkania
Subseries of The Dark Eye
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny 1992
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail 1994
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva 1996
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (2013) 2013
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail (2017) 2017

Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva is a singleplayer first-person and isometric RPG game in the Realms of Arkania 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
Use DOSBox.
DOS
GamersGate
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Trilogy Classic Bundle.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\RIVA.CFG
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Settings.
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
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
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
Only Sounds volume can be adjusted (Music is on/off only).
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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes SVGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i486
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA, VESA
Other 1x CD-ROM drive
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D graphics card
DirectX 7.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D graphics card
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D graphics card


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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).

References