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Sea Dogs

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Sea Dogs
Sea Dogs cover
Developers
Akella
Publishers
Original 1C Company
Current Akella
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Engines
Storm[1]
Release dates
Windows November 27, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres RPG, Action, Open world, Sandbox, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Naval/watercraft
Themes Piracy
Series Age of Pirates
Sea Dogs on HowLongToBeat
Sea Dogs on MobyGames
Sea Dogs on Wikipedia
Age of Pirates
Sea Dogs 2000
Pirates of the Caribbean 2003
Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales 2006
Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships 2009
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own 2012
Sea Dogs: Legendary Edition TBA

General information

Titled Корсары in Russia.
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
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)
Disc check.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch is Patch 1.06 for international versions and Patch 1.061 for Russian versions.
Some retail re-releases already include the latest patch (the version is shown on the title screen).

Skip intro videos

Use replacement video files

Apply the Sea Dogs intro skip.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\engine.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/764670/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\RESOURCE\SAVES[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/764670/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game settings.
In-game settings.
Config settings (Config.exe).
Config settings (Config.exe).

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Vert- with stretched UI; see Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Sea Dogs is Vert-; FOV is always the same.
Windowed
Use reduced color mode or set desktop to 16-bit color to fix windowed color issues.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
On/off only; if it doesn't work or you want a higher setting, force it in the video card control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in engine.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit engine.ini.
  3. Change WINDOW_WIDTH and WINDOW_HEIGHT to the width and height of the desired resolution.
  4. Save the changes.
Menus and other interface elements will be stretched, but 3D elements will have the correct aspect ratio.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects and Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Most dialogue is text-only but cutscenes and voices have no subtitles.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Local retail version only.
Russian
In full translation on the Official "Akella" version.

Issues fixed

Invisible text

Invisible text in-game.
Invisible text in-game.
The retail version may have invisible text in certain situations (such as when running on Windows 10) due to a font issue.
Replace broken fonts[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\RESOURCE\INI.
  2. Edit fonts.ini.
  3. Replace all instances of log-russ, log-russ-Italic, and seawolf with arial (or another working font).

"DxInit: The operation is not supported" launch error

The game is trying to run in a resolution unsupported by the monitor. Edit engine.ini and enter a supported resolution (see Widescreen resolution).

Black squares on Windows 7 and higher

Use dgVoodoo 2
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and the contents of the MS\x86 subfolder to <path-to-game>.

Other information

Game editor

Sea Dogs includes a hidden editor that can be used to add or edit quests, equipment, characters, etc.
Enable editor[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit engine.ini.
  3. Change CORE_MODULE core to CORE_MODULE tools_launcher
  4. Save the changes.

Notes

Choosing Game from the Tools Launcher will return to the game and reset this change. Repeat to re-enable.

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 OSR2
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM

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 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>/764670/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (764670) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. PT Boats game by Akella - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Sea Dogs FAQ/Walkthrough for PC by ghighnote - GameFAQs - last accessed on May 2023