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Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

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Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword cover
Developers
SiCh Studio
TaleWorlds Entertainment
Publishers
Russia 1C Company
Russia Snowball Studio
International, original Paradox Interactive
International, current TaleWorlds Entertainment
Release dates
Windows December 4, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 68
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Open world, RPG, Strategy
Series Mount & Blade
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword on HowLongToBeat
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword on IGDB
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword guide on StrategyWiki
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword on MobyGames
Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword on Wikipedia
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Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person open world, RPG and strategy game in the Mount & Blade series.

General information

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)
CD key
Requires online activation
Russian copies use StarForce 5 DRM. CIS/Russian retail can be activated on GOG.com.[1]
GOG.com key
Windows
Developer website
Requires online activation
Optional Steam unlock.
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
CD key
Serial key for multiplayer shown in the game's library entry.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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CD key
Windows
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable)
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[2]
Windows
Free demo can be downloaded here.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete binkplay.exe[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename binkplay.exe.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Mount&Blade With Fire and Sword\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/48720/pfx/[Note 1]
Product keys are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MountAndBladeWarbandWFASKeys.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Mount&Blade With Fire and Sword\Savegames\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/48720/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Set in launcher.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Set in launcher.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Set in launcher.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Set in launcher.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate cap is fully configurable.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and sound volume.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Game dialogue is text-only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Retail and GOG.com only.
Spanish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
64
Online play
64

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7, 9.0c Set in launcher.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD 2.5 GHz
2.1GHz or higher
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 900 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB+ of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 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>/48720/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (48720) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References