Warlords III
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Developers | |
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Strategic Studies Group | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Red Orb Entertainment |
Digital (2019-2024) | Slitherine |
Digital (2024-present) | SNEG |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 8, 1997 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Turn-based |
Perspectives | Top-down view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Strategy, RPG |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | Warlords |
Warlords | |
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Warlords | 1989 |
Warlords II | 1993 |
Warlords III | 1997 |
Warlords Battlecry (series) | |
Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria | 2003 |
Warlords III is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view strategy and RPG game in the Warlords series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
GOG.com | Darklords Rising. Pre-packaged with GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper. | |||
Steam | Darklords Rising. Pre-packaged with cnc-ddraw. |
Version differences
- Warlords III: Reign of Heroes is the initial 1997 release of the game.
- Warlords III: Darklords Rising is an expanded version of the game, released in 1998. It includes all of the content from Reign of Heroes, as well as 4 more campaigns, 15 stand-alone scenarios, and additional units, spells, and heroes.[1]
Demo versions
- Free demo versions are available on Archive.org: Reign of Heroes, Darklords Rising.
Essential improvements
- The latest official patches for Reign of Heroes (1.01 for UK, 1.02 for US releases) are available from Patches-Scrolls, Archive.org and Ubisoft's patch repository.
- The latest official patch for Darklords Rising is 1.02, available from Patches-Scrolls.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\*.INI[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2916220/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 1] <path-to-game>\CAMPAIGN[Note 1] <path-to-game>\SCENARIO[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2916220/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Maximum of 1024x768. Display wrappers only stretch the output. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use GOG's custom display wrapper settings (dxcfg.exe ) or cnc-ddraw. |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Edit <path-to-game>\keys.w3 with a text editor. |
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Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music and sound FX | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Network
- Multiplayer requires DirectPlay to be enabled.
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 8 | Hot seat |
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LAN play | 8 | |||
Online play | The official MPlayer.com service has been shut down. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Smacker Video Technology | |
Multiplayer | MPlayer.com |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 75 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 80 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 640x480 resolution, 256 colors DirectX 5.0a compatible |
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Other | 4x CD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/2916220/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (2916220) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Warlords III: Darklords Rising on GOG.com - last accessed on 2019-11-20
- "4 campaigns and 15 stand-alone scenarios, plus the original campaign and 13 scenarios from Warlords III Reign of Heroes"