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The Settlers: Rise of an Empire

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This page is for the original release. For the History Edition, see The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - History Edition.

The Settlers: Rise of an Empire
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire cover
Developers
Blue Byte Software
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows September 25, 2007
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Building, RTS
Themes Fantasy, Medieval
Series The Settlers
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire on HowLongToBeat
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire on MobyGames
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire on Wikipedia
The Settlers 1994
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici 1996
The Settlers III 1998
The Settlers IV 2001
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings 2004
The Settlers II: 10th Anniversary 2006
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire 2007
The Settlers: Rise of Cultures 2008
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom 2010
The Settlers Online 2012
The Settlers - History Edition 2018
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici - History Edition 2018
The Settlers III: History Edition 2018
The Settlers IV - History Edition 2018
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings - History Edition 2018
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - History Edition 2018
The Settlers 7: History Edition 2018
The Settlers: New Allies 2023

The Settlers: Rise of an Empire is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view building and RTS game in the The Settlers series.

General information

Official Forum - Ubisoft forum for game series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions (Gold Edition)
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
TAGES 5 DRM and Solidshield DRM
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Gold Edition. Includes Limited Edition objects. Serial keys for online multiplayer not provided.
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Gold Edition. Replaced by the History Edition in 2018.
Windows
Ubisoft Store (unavailable)
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Gold Edition. Replaced by the History Edition in 2018.
Windows

Version differences

The retail Limited Edition, among physical goodies, included 6 in-game decorative objects.
The Gold Edition includes the base game and The Eastern Realm expansion pack. It formed the base of the History Edition.
The GOG.com version includes a patch to fix issues on graphics cards with 2 GB of VRAM or more.[1]
These issues were not fixed in the History Edition.

Monetization

Type Notes
Expansion pack The expansion pack includes a new hero, campaign, maps, desert terrain and the geologist unit.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Eastern Realm
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patches, 1.7 and 1.71, are available from Patches-Scrolls.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\THE SETTLERS - Rise of an Empire\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15330/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\THE SETTLERS - Rise of an Empire\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15330/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

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

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See Windowed set the display resolution to the desired resolution
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Needs to be forced on in Graphics Control Panel.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Windowed[citation needed]
  1. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\THE SETTLERS - Rise of an Empire\Config\Options.ini
  2. Find the section [Display]
  3. Change Windowed=0 to Windowed=1

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
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Retail only.
Russian
Retail only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
4 Versus
Online play
The official multiplayer service was shut down in February 2013.[2]

Connection types

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
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.66 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c 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>/15330/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15330) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. gog.com - last accessed on 28 May 2023
  2. Multiplayer and Online Services availability in Ubisoft games | Ubisoft Help - last accessed on 2023-01-08