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The Legend of Three Kingdoms 3

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The Legend of Three Kingdoms 3
The Legend of Three Kingdoms 3 cover
Developers
Odin Soft
Release dates
Windows January 25, 2002
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based, Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view, Isometric, Side view
Controls Menu-based
Genres Strategy
Art styles Stylized
Themes China
Series The Legend of Three Kingdoms
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Warnings

This game is not playable in English (see Localizations for supported languages).

The Legend of Three Kingdoms 3 is a singleplayer top-down view, isometric and side view strategy game in the The Legend of Three Kingdoms series.

First released as San Guo Qun Ying Zhuan III (Simplified Chinese: 三国群英传III, Traditional Chinese: 三國群英傳III) in Asia.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc 2.51.021 DRM[Note 1] disc check
Windows
Steam
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Version differences

This game has one revision since its initial v1.0 release: v2.0 ("Enhanced" version) which is only available for free if purchased with the game's guide book.
v1.x must be uninstalled before installation of v2.0 as both version is incompatible with each other.
v2.0 only comes with installation disc, the play disc is still needed to play in both version.

Essential improvements

Patches

Depend on what version of the game you install, there are 2 available patches for download and each version of them is not compatible with each other.
If the game version you installed is 1.0, please use this patch to update to version 1.06.
If the game version you installed is 2.0, please use this patch to update to version 2.1.

Game data

General options menu
General options menu

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1437840/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1437840/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
maximum resolution is 640 x 480
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
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 the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

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
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Indeo 5

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000, NT, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 2 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/1437840/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1437840) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References