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Tzar: The Burden of the Crown

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Tzar: The Burden of the Crown
Tzar: The Burden of the Crown cover
Developers
Haemimont Games
Publishers
Take-Two Interactive
Italy, Spain FX Interactive
Digital Haemimont Games
Release dates
Windows January 27, 2000
Reception
IGDB 60
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Medieval, Fantasy
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Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Can be played without Steam running
Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Tzar: El Cid y la Reconquista Released only in Spain.
Windows
Tzar: El Rey Arturo y Excalibur Released only in Spain and Italy.
Windows
Tzar: El Imperio de Gengis Khan Released only in Spain and Italy.
Windows
Tzar: Los Dominios de la Magia Released only in Spain.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Official patches that update the game to the latest version can be found here.
Unofficial patch 1.13, which provides balance changes, is available here.
Unofficial patch Tzar 1.16b, can be found at https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown-116b/downloads/tzar116b
Unofficial Launcher https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-r2p-launcher/downloads/tzar-ready2play-launcher . You need to add cnc-draw and set it to GDI rendering, opengl CTD-ed on me

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\tzar.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

External options menu.
External options menu.
In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen resolutions support[1]

Install HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200).

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
Sound, Music
Surround sound
5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 2.0
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
English
Bulgarian
Local retail version only.
French
Local retail version only.
German
Italian
Local retail version only.
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Local retail version only.
Spanish
Steam version is available only in English.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
8 Versus

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7.0
Software renderer
GDI
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000
Processor (CPU) 200 MHz Pentium
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 202 MB


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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References