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Rise of the Argonauts

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Rise of the Argonauts
Rise of the Argonauts cover
Developers
Liquid Entertainment
Publishers
Codemasters
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows December 16, 2008
Reception
Metacritic 59
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres ARPG, Action
Art styles Realistic
Themes Classical, Fantasy
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Rise of the Argonauts is a singleplayer third-person ARPG and action game.

General information

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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM
Windows
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Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Run the game with the -nostartupmovies command line argument.[citation needed]
Rename/delete intro videos[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\LiquidGame\Movies.
  2. Delete or rename BinkLogo.bik, FMODLogo.bik, Legal.bik, Logos.bik and UnrealLogo.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Rise of the Argonauts\LiquidGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12770/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Rise of the Argonauts\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12770/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

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

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
Menu Issues
Field of view (FOV)
See the WSGF entry.
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
Pre-rendered cutscenes are capped at 30 FPS.
120+ FPS
Capped at 62 FPS by default. See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Disable Vsync[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open LiquidEngine.ini.
  3. Change UseVsync=True to UseVsync=False.

High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open LiquidEngine.ini.
  3. Search and change bSmoothFrameRate to FALSE or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate value.
  4. Save the file.
For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.
Game seems to be internally capped at 120 Hz. Forcing frame rates higher than this may cause glitches and increase the occurrence of crashes.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX, Dialogue
Surround sound
7.1
Subtitles
Pre-rendered cutscenes aren't subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Hungarian
Retail only. Available to download.
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation; download.
Spanish

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, 10 Edit the config file (LiquidEngine.ini) to enable Direct3D 10. Compatible with dgVoodoo2 wrapper (DirectX11/12).
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP)
1.5 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
ATI Radeon X1300
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible


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>/12770/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (12770) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Tested successfully by Genesis