The I of the Dragon

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The I of the Dragon
The I of the Dragon cover
Developers
Primal Software
Publishers
TopWare Interactive
Release dates
Windows December 1, 2002[1]
OS X September 7, 2015[2]
 
 
 

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
 
 
Amazon.com
 
 
Steam
 
 Set to the German language by default.
 
 
A demo is available here.

Skip intro videos[edit]

Skip Intro[citation needed]
  1. Open the Registry Editor.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Primal\Dragon\Show
  3. Select the Video entry, select Decimal, then write 0.

Missing music solution[edit]

Instructions[3]
  1. Download the following archive and extract the files into the main installation folder.
  2. Run the patch.cmd file and select Yes when prompted.

Notes

The three files which have been extracted from the archive can be deleted once applied.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Primal
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location[edit]

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\*.sav
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Video settings.
Video settings.
Graphics option Option Notes
Widescreen resolution
Interface scales poorly.
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Field of view (FOV)[edit]

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Open the Registry Editor.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Primal\Dragon\Graphics
  3. Select the HorizontalFOV entry, select Decimal, then write the desired value.

Windowed[edit]

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Open the Registry Editor.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Primal\Dragon\Graphics
  3. Select the Windowed entry, select Decimal, then write 1.

Anti-aliasing (AA)[edit]

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Open the Registry Editor.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Primal\Dragon\Graphics
  3. Select the MultiSampling entry, select Decimal, then write the desired value.

Notes

The possible accepted values are, 2, 4, 8 and 16.

Vertical sync (Vsync)[edit]

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Open the Registry Editor.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Primal\Dragon\Graphics
  3. Select the VSync entry, select Decimal, then write 1.

Input settings[edit]

Input settings.
Input settings.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
See Mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback

Mouse acceleration[edit]

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Open the Registry Editor.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Primal\Dragon\Input
  3. Select the MouseAcceleration entry, select Decimal, then set it to 1 or 0.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings.
Audio settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English
Czech
German
Hungarian
Polish

Issues fixed[edit]

Acess Violation[edit]

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. See Windows Compatibility Mode.
  2. Navigate to the main installation path, and find TheIOfTheDragon.exe
  3. Set the executable to run under the Windows Vista compatibility mode, and as an administrator.

Crash to desktop[edit]

Doing this also solves an issue with the broken intro video.
Instructions[citation needed]
  1. See Windows Compatibility Mode.
  2. Navigate to the main installation path, and find TheIOfTheDragon.exe
  3. Set the executable to run under the Windows Vista compatibility mode, and as an administrator.
Play in a Windowed mode. See Windowed[citation needed]

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, XP XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 600 MHz Pentium III 1 GHz Pentium III
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM 32 MB of VRAM

References

  1. ↑ Game Watcher - The I of the Dragon
  2. ↑ Steam Community Announcement - Mac OSX version available!
  3. ↑ http://steamcommunity.com/app/279720/discussions/0/517142253856588188/