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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]
macOS (OS X) September 7, 2015[2]
Linux March 11, 2017[3]
Reception
Metacritic 55
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, ARPG, Strategy
Themes Fantasy
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The I of the Dragon on Wikipedia

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
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Set to the German language by default.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
A demo is available here.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

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

Missing music solution

Instructions[4]
  1. Download the following archive and extract the files into the 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

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Primal
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\*.sav[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Field of view (FOV)

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

Windowed

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

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Primal\Dragon\Graphics.
  2. 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)

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

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Mouse acceleration

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

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Retail and Steam only.
German
Hungarian
Retail and Steam only.
Polish
Retail only.
Russian
Retail and Steam only.
Spanish
Fan translation; download.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
Z3D
User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.6, see profile introdution.
Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Issues fixed

Access Violation

un TheIOfTheDragon.exe in compatibility mode for Windows Vista and as administrator.[citation needed]

Crash to desktop

Doing this also solves an issue with the broken intro video.
Run TheIOfTheDragon.exe in compatibility mode for Windows Vista and as administrator.[citation needed]
Run the game in windowed mode. See Windowed[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

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


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