Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds
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| Developers | |
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| Secret Level | |
| Publishers | |
| Atari | |
| Engines | |
| Unreal Engine 2 | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | November 18, 2003 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 68 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | CCG, RTS |
| Art styles | Stylized |
| Themes | Fantasy |
| Series | Magic: The Gathering |
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Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view CCG and RTS game in the Magic: The Gathering series.
Availability
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\SYSTEM\Default.ini[Note 2] <path-to-game>\SYSTEM\LightGroup.ini[Note 2] <path-to-game>\SYSTEM\MagicGame.ini[Note 2] <path-to-game>\SYSTEM\MagicSpells.ini[Note 2] <path-to-game>\SYSTEM\MTGBattlegrounds.ini[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\SYSTEM\<user-id>.sav[Note 2] |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | Vert- gameplay and stretched HUD. | ||
| Multi-monitor | Vert- gameplay and stretched HUD. | ||
| Ultra-widescreen | Vert- gameplay and stretched HUD. | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | Vert- gameplay and stretched HUD. | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | 85º by default. Use the FOV Fix to change it (only tested on v1.0 so far). | ||
| 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 | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | Off by default. To turn it on, see Vertical sync (Vsync). | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync)
| Edit ini file[3] |
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Notes
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Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | ||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| EAX support | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English |
Issues fixed
Game's Vsync doesn't work on Windows 8/8.1/10/11
| Use dgVoodoo2[3] |
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| Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper[3] |
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Poor performance on Windows 8/8.1/10/11
| Use dgVoodoo2[3] |
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| Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper[3] |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 8 | [4] |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio | OpenAL | |
| Cutscenes | Bink Video | |
| Multiplayer | GameSpy |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 98, ME, 2000, XP | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 800 MHz | Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.4 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible | 64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-07-13
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-07-13
- According to System Informer, the game loads d3d8.dll. According to DebugView++'s logs, dgVoodoo2's traces point to Direct3D 8 (e.g: "Direct3DDevice8").