Titan Quest

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Titan Quest
Titan Quest.jpg
Developers
Publishers
 
Release dates
Windows
June 26, 2006
Titan Quest at WineHQ
Titan Quest at Steam Charts
Titan Quest at SteamDB
 Titan Quest at Wikipedia

Key points

Disadvantage GameSpy online server browser stopped working on May 31, 2014 due to GameSpy services being shut down

General information

More information TitanQuest.net
More information Official Website
More information Unofficial Wiki
More information Steam Community Discussions
More information Steam Users' Forums

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Amazon.co.uk DRM details are not known The Titan Quest Gold bundle includes Titan Quest and its expansion Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg The Titan Quest Gold bundle includes Titan Quest and its expansion Titan Quest: Immortal Throne

Version differences[edit]

Immortal Throne is the only expansion for the game. It brings many seamless enhancements to the original campaign and works as an add-on. It requires the original Titan Quest to be installed. Immortal Throne is required for most patches and mods.

A bundle of Titan Quest and Immortal Throne is the most desirable version for newcomers (Oftentimes called Titan Quest Gold). Original version characters can be also imported into Immortal Throne, but the best option is to start a new game within Immortal Throne.

The German version offered by Steam is a low violence version and only available in German by default. English language support can be patched in, the game itself will stay low violence, though.

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Fan patch 1.17a[edit]

Information Already included with some mods, strongly advised. It fixes many bugs and technical issues left in the game. Immortal Throne expansion is mandatory.

Fix Installation of fan patch for Steam version

Information Make sure you've run both Titan Quest and Immortal Throne at least once to generate required resources
  1. Save the 1.17a file in the installation folder.
  2. Run the 1.17a installer.
  3. Run Titan Quest Immortal Throne from the Steam client. The title screen should read v.1.17sd in the bottom right corner.
Information Do not save the patch in the original Titan Quest folder.

Fix Disable Steam auto-updating

English Language Patch[edit]

As noted above, the German version is a low violence version with German texts and dialog only. To enable English language support you have to download the language pack and replace a number of files in the installation folder of Titan Quest. The full instructions (in German) and the language pack can be found here.

Utilities[edit]

TQ Defiler[edit]

Advantage Can fix the RNG, slow casting and the socket error
Information A versatile program with built-in mods, intro skip capabilities and a character editor (either to fix/restore broken characters or to cheat)

Fix Make TQDefiler to work with just base game[1]

  1. Download game.dll and extract it.
  2. Replace game.dll inside <path-to-game> with the downloaded one.

TQ Vault[edit]

Acts as an external, independent, shared inventory. You can create unlimited Vaults, each holding whichever items you put in them. Useful for creating collections of rare items or "twinking" (giving characters items found by other characters, generally from later parts of the game and higher quality). It also has some item-editing features, such as the ability to change a relic's completion bonus, clone items or complete sets. User's of the Steam version of Titan Quest cannot use this tool. Use will likely result in corruption of all characters edited by the program.

Modifications[edit]

Underlord[edit]

Information Extensive mod that raises the level cap to 85 (from 75) and introduces new content as well as balance, making the game more difficult overall but close to its original style. 1.17a patch is embedded.

Skip intro videos[edit]

Information Introductory cinematic video is unskippable the first time you launch the game. Then, it can be skipped by clicking or pressing some keys.

Fix Avoid having to press buttons to skip intro

Game data[edit]

  Location 
Windows (Base game) %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Titan Quest
Windows (Expansion) %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Titan Quest - Immortal Throne
Windows (Base game on Steam) <path-to-game>
Windows (Expansion on Steam) <path-to-game>

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible
GameSave Manager Native

Mix and match Steam and non-Steam original and expansion[edit]

Fix Regedit original game filepath[2]

  1. Open regedit.
  2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Iron Lore\Titan Quest
  3. Check if Install Location exists.
  4. If it does not, create a New > String Value and call it Install Location
  5. Modify the value to contain the full path of the original Titan Quest folder.

Fix Regedit original game version

Disadvantage Upon reaching the main menu you will be told that Titan Quest needs to be updated. Choice of OK and Cancel will simply close the install process.
Disadvantage Caused by version mismatch between Steam and non-Steam versions of Titan Quest.
  1. Open regedit.
  2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Iron Lore\Titan Quest
  3. Check if Version exists.
  4. If it does not, create a New > String Value and call it Version
  5. Modify the value to 1.30
  6. Titan Quest - Immortal Throne should now be installable.

Video settings[edit]

Titan Quest settings.
Immortal Throne settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Native WSGF WS Gold.svg
Multi-monitor Native WSGF MM Silver.svg
Field of view (FOV) Hackable
Windowed Native
Borderless fullscreen windowed Hackable This can be made to work using ShiftWindow.
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Impossible
Anti-aliasing (AA) Native
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
High frame rate Native No frame rate or refresh rate cap.[3]

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Impossible
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Impossible
Controller
Controller support Impossible

Audio settings[edit]

Titan Quest settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native Master, music, SFX, dialog
Surround sound Unknown
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Unknown

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native To use with German version see Englisches Sprachpaket.
French Native Unknown Native
German Native Unknown Native German language only available in Germany.
Italian Native Unknown Native
Spanish Native Unknown Native

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN co-op Native 6
Online co-op Native 6

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking Impossible
Peer-to-peer Native
Dedicated Impossible
Self-hosting Native
Direct IP Unknown

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP (outbound) 42800, 42801

Issues fixed[edit]

Fan patch multiplayer fragmentation[edit]

Players with the fanpatch installed can connect only with others that also have it.

Error obtaining server list[edit]

There may be an error with searching and joining multiplayer games online through Steam. The error message indicated a problem with .\common\gsPlatformSocket.c with Expression theSocket != INVALID_SOCKET.

Fix Use TQ Defiler

Fix Edit engine.dll[4][citation needed]

  1. Open <path-to-game>\Engine.dll with a hex editor
  2. Change offset 0x164A0F to 0x11 (from 0x01) and offset 0x164A11 to 0x02 (from 0x03).
  3. Save

Fix Run the game as administrator

  • Steam must also have admin rights if game is there

Fix Keep pressing "I" when error occurs

'Tag not found'[edit]

Fix If playing demo, set language to English[5]

  1. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Titan Quest Demo\Settings\options.txt
  2. Search for language = and change it to language = English.
  3. Open defaults.txt (in the same folder).
  4. Add the following line language = English to the bottom like this: 
tutorialTips              = true
displayDamage             = false
quickBuy                  = true
itemComparison            = true
extraRollovers            = true
showMonsterLevelOnRollover= false
masterVolume              = 0.99
musicVolume               = 0.99
effectsVolume             = 0.99
dialogVolume              = 0.99
ambientFrequency          = medium
fullscreen                = true
showTagErrors             = true
useArchives               = true
sendDebugMail             = false
showAssertMessages        = false
device                    = Direct3D
playerVsPlayer            = false
forceSingleProcessorMode  = true
splashScreen              = true
language = English

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium IV 1.8 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 		Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
5 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 3
ATI Radeon 8500 series
64 MB of VRAM
Shader model 1.1 support 		NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
ATI Radeon X800 series
128 MB of VRAM

References

  1. ↑ How to mod the Steam version with TQDefiler!!!!! - Steam community discussions
  2. ↑ "Titan Quest Immortal Throne needs to update original Titan Quest files" Error - Titan Quest forum
  3. ↑ New 120Hz Games Report
  4. ↑ Fixing Titan Quest on Steam « Rick’s Game Stuff
  5. ↑ [FiX] Tag Not Found - Titan Quest forum