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Praetorians

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This page is for the original release. For the HD Remaster, see Praetorians HD Remaster.

Praetorians
Praetorians cover
Developers
Pyro Studios
Publishers
Retail Eidos Interactive
First digital Merge Games
Second digital Kalypso Media Digital
Re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows March 10, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 78
IGDB 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS, Strategy
Art styles Realistic
Themes Classical, Europe, Historical
Series Praetorians
Praetorians on HowLongToBeat
Praetorians on IGDB
Praetorians on MobyGames
Praetorians on Wikipedia
Praetorians
Praetorians 2003
Praetorians HD Remaster 2020

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Praetorians is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS and strategy game in the Praetorians series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

A free demo is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is 1.04, available from Patches-Scrolls.

Unofficial patch

The unofficial 1.05 patch is available from Patches-Scrolls.

Skip intro videos

Move, rename or delete file
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\DATA\VIDEOS.
  2. Move, rename or delete LOGOS.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Praetorians\Profiles\*.usr
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/277460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Praetorians\Savegame
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/277460/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

Video

Video settings
Video settings
Advanced video settings
Advanced video settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
1024x768 is maximum by default; see Widescreen resolution. Hor+
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
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
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
framerate is capped at about 64 fps
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Replace files with modified versions[1]
  1. Download the package for the appropriate version of the game here
  2. Extract the files belonging to the desired resolution to <path-to-game> and overwrite existing files.

Input

Game settings
Game settings

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Scroll speed only.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Sound settings
Sound settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, music, effects, ambient, voice, interface.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Spanish
Retail only; download for digital releases.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
8
Online play
The official GameSpy service has been shut down.

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 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>/277460/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (277460) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Praetorians | WSGF - last accessed on [unknown]