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Warrior Kings
Warrior Kings	2002
Warrior Kings: Battles	2003

Warnings

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

Warrior Kings: Battles is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Warrior Kings series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM^{[Note 1]}
GOG.com
Steam
ZOOM Platform

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

WK Universal Unofficial Patch

Fixes the unit teleportation bug on high framerate

Fixes issues with the music, improves framerate when music is on

Adds widescreen resolutions in the settings.

Improves modding and allows custom maps

Install WK Universal Unofficial Patch
Download the patch. Extract `d3d8.dll` to `<path-to-game>`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Black Cactus\Warrior Kings Battles^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/299070/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saved^{[Note 4]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/299070/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution

WKB Gamestarter^{[citation needed]}
Use the WKB Gamestarter to set the resolution.

Custom resolution in registry^{[citation needed]}
Go to `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Black Cactus\Warrior Kings Battles\Renderer` Change `default_screen_width` and `default_screen_height` to the desired resolution.

Windowed

Windowed mode^{[citation needed]}

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Black Cactus\Warrior Kings Battles\Renderer
In the menu bar click Edit > New > DWORD 32-bit value.
Name the new value: fullscreen
Double-click it and set it to 0.

Notes

If you want to go back to fullscreen, double-click the fullscreen value and set it to 1.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
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		Music, sound effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Spanish				Retail version, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8	Versus
Online play		8	Versus GameSpy services have been shut down;^[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Graphical glitches

Graphical glitches^{[citation needed]}

This bug seems to occur on Windows 10 and/or recent Intel Graphics drivers.

Download the ENB D3D8 to D3D9 converter.
Extract the content of the ZIP file into the installation folder.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Multiplayer	GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Me, 2000, XP and later
Processor (CPU)	733 MHz x86 CPU	1 GHz x86 CPU
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	800 MB	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	32 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]
↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (299070) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ 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).

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
↑ Pricing | GameSpy Technology

[3] 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]

[HKLM-4] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[Proton_path_note-5] 3.0 ^3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (299070) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[4] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[5] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[6] The app ID (299070) may differ in some cases.

[7] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[8] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[gamedir-6] 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).

[1] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[2] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[7] Pricing | GameSpy Technology

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[Note 3]

[Note 4]

[3]

[1]

[2]

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 }}
 {{Fixbox|description=Custom resolution in registry|ref={{cn|date=November 2016}}|fix=
-# Go to <code>{{p|hklm}}\Software\Black Cactus\Warrior Kings Battles\Renderer</code>
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 # Change <code>default_screen_width</code> and <code>default_screen_height</code> to the desired resolution.
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 {{References}}

Developers

	Black Cactus
Publishers
Retail (Europe)	Empire Interactive
Retail (United States), digital	Strategy First
Retail (Japan)	Sega
Release dates
Windows	March 21, 2003
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
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Warrior Kings