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Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest

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Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest
Developers
Random Games
Publishers
GT Interactive
Release dates
Windows 3.x 1996
Mac OS (Classic) 1996
Reception
Metacritic N/A
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based, Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Menu-based, Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Historical, Medieval
Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest on IGDB
Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest on MobyGames
Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest on Wikipedia

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest is a Viking-themed strategy game. It has real-time tactical combat with settlement management that operates on a day-based turn system.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Game reads files from the disc and will not start without it.
Windows 3.x
Retail
DRM details are not known
Mac OS
Retail disc includes both Windows 3.1/95 and Macintosh versions.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None


Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

Options menu.
Options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
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.
High-fidelity upscaling
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

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
Can only turn music, speech, and sound effects on or off.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Text is always displayed.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel 486
33 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 15 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 Colors
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7.1
Processor (CPU) 68040
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 12 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 Colors


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