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Revision as of 23:22, 19 May 2015

Realms of Arkania: Star Trail
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail cover
Developers
Attic Entertainment Software
Publishers
Sir-Tech
U.S. Gold
Fantasy Productions
Release dates
DOS September 1994
Windows 2009
macOS (OS X) June 18, 2013[1]
Linux March 14, 2014[2]
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail on Wikipedia
Realms of Arkania
Subseries of The Dark Eye
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny 1992
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail 1994
Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva 1996
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (2013) 2013
Realms of Arkania: Star Trail (2017) 2017

Key points

Characters can be imported from Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (see Import characters).

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Steam
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Retail
DRM details are not known
Floppies or CD-ROM.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
The manual is needed to answer copy protection questions (see passwords.pdf for digital versions).

Version differences

The English version has MIDI music whereas the German version has CD music; it is possible to Use CD music in English version.

Essential improvements

Import characters

Instructions
Instructions

Use CD music in English version

These steps change the German CD version to use English text. This requires the German CD version (GOG.com has both).
The intro and some minor game text will still be in German.
To have German speech with English subtitles copy only STAR.DAT from the English folder.
NPCs will have 50x their normal XP value when you recruit them, as the English version uses has a multiplier for all XP gained or required. This can be fixed by hex-editing STAR.DAT, but must be done from a save from before the NPC is recruited to prevent excessive stat increases.
Instructions

Game data

Save game data location

Generated characters are stored in <path-to-game>\GAMES\CHARS1.DAT; this file is not needed for loading save games (characters are stored in each save).
In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.
Exported diary and character sheet files are saved in <path-to-game>
Diary and character sheet data is saved to file when Print to is set to File in Game Options (F3). To print from within the game see printer support.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Issues fixed

No voices (GOG.com)

GOG.com's Windows version is incorrectly configured.
Instructions

Automap black screen freeze (GOG.com)

Instructions

Printer support

Official DOSBox builds don't support printing.
Instructions

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) DOS 5.0
Processor (CPU) 386DX/33
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References