Knights of Honor
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| Developers | |
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| Black Sea Studios | |
| Publishers | |
| Europe | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software |
| North America, digital | Paradox Interactive |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | September 30, 2004 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
| Controls | Multiple select, Point and select |
| Genres | RTS |
| Themes | Africa, Europe, Medieval, Middle East |
| Series | Knights of Honor |
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| Knights of Honor | |
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| Knights of Honor | 2004 |
| Knights of Honor II: Sovereign | 2022 |
Warnings
Knights of Honor is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game in the Knights of Honor series.
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Retail | |
SecuROM DRM disc check; removed with patch 1.05. | |
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| GamersGate | |
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| GOG.com | |
Version 1.05. Includes GOG.com's custom DirectDraw wrapper. | |
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| Green Man Gaming | |
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| Steam | |
Version 1.03. See Updating Steam version. | |
- A free demo version is available from GameFront.
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest official patch is 1.05, and is available from Patches-Scrolls, ModDB, and GameFront. It resolves a number of issues, including higher difficulty on the "hard" setting.
Skip intro videos
| Replace files[1] |
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Updating Steam version
| Add missing registry file[2] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %APPDATA%\Black Sea Studios\Knights of Honor |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25830/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %APPDATA%\Black Sea Studios\Knights of Honor\save |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25830/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video
General settings.
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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| Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
| 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) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
Widescreen resolution
| Use the HD Patch[3] |
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| Set resolution manually[4] |
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Windowed
| Set windowed[5] |
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Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| 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 |
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Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Only 2 sliders: "Music" and "Sound/Voices" | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| German | Retail only; downloads for Steam release: CompiWare (incl. manual), Steam Community |
Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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| LAN play | 6 | Co-op |
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| Online play | 6 | Co-op GameSpy services have been shut down;[6] see GameSpy for workarounds. |
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Connection types
| Type | Native | Notes |
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| Matchmaking | ||
| Peer-to-peer | ||
| Dedicated | ||
| Self-hosting | ||
| Direct IP |
Other information
Opening the map editor
| Instructions[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Cutscenes | Bink Video | |
| Multiplayer | GameSpy |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 98 SE | XP |
| Processor (CPU) | 1 GHz Intel Pentium III or comparable | 1.5 GHz Intel Pentium 4 |
| System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.3 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 64 MB of VRAM |
- Minimum resolution is 1024x768.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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>/25830/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (25830) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.