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King of Dragon Pass

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This page is for the original release. For the remake, see King of Dragon Pass (2015).

King of Dragon Pass
King of Dragon Pass cover
Developers
A Sharp
Engines
mTropolis[1]
Release dates
Windows October 11, 1999
Mac OS (Classic) October 11, 1999
Taxonomy
Pacing Turn-based
Genres RPG, Strategy
Themes Fantasy
Series King of Dragon Pass
King of Dragon Pass on HowLongToBeat
King of Dragon Pass on IGDB
King of Dragon Pass guide on StrategyWiki
King of Dragon Pass on MobyGames
King of Dragon Pass on Wikipedia
King of Dragon Pass
King of Dragon Pass 1999
King of Dragon Pass (2015) 2015

General information

King of Dragon Pass Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with King of Dragon Pass (2015).
Windows
Developer website (unavailable)
DRM details are not known
Windows
Mac OS
A demo is available for Windows and Mac OS.

Essential improvements

Patches

The Version 1.7 patch updates the retail version. The GOG.com version is already patched.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\A Sharp\King of Dragon Pass
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
On resolutions above 640x480 the game area is windowboxed.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
2D game.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
2D game.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Windowed

Run the game executable with a command line argument[2]

Run KoDP.exe with the -w command line argument.

Notes

This method actually launches mTropolis Windows Player in windowed mode. On higher resolutions game area will be still centered due to this reason.

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
On/off only (individual toggles for Background, Adventure, Sound Effects).
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7.5
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 24 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Mac OS version of the game also runs in classic mode on OS X.[3]


Notes

  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).

References

  1. ScummVM :: Wiki - mTropolis/Games - last accessed on 2022-08-08
  2. Windowed, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  3. King of Dragon Pass System Requirements - last accessed on May 2023