Warnings
- GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building game in the Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim series.
The game was expanded with The Northern Expansion in March 2001, and received several patches and downloadable missions for both the base game and expansion pack. The Gold Edition began distribution in 2002, containing both, and was ported to Linux. In 2009, the Gold Edition started being sold on Steam.
On March 21, 2012, the Gold HD Edition was released, with native widescreen support and bug fixes.
This version of the game requires command line arguments to properly run.
General information
- Official developer site
- Majesty Gold HD Support Forum
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Version differences
- Majesty: Gold Edition includes the base game and The Northern Expansion.
- Majesty Gold HD is an enhanced re-release of the Gold Edition, combined in a single executable. It has improved compatibility for newer systems, high resolution support. As of the most recent updates, it also includes the demo mission, all previously downloadable quests and Steamworks/Galaxy multiplayer.
Demo
- Free demo versions with a unique mission are available from GameFront: Windows, Mac OS.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
| Name |
Notes |
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| The Northern Expansion |
Included in Gold and Gold HD editions. Not available separately for Linux. |
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Essential improvements
Patches
- Patches are available for Windows and Mac OS. The Gold Edition is already patched.
Use newer SDL version (Linux)
- Will replace OSS with ALSA in terms of sound output and add additional features.
- Requires 32 bit version of recent SDL 1.2 library.
Run the software with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32 on at the beginning. If using a 32-bit system use /usr/lib path instead.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Save game data location
Video
Input
Performance settings menu
Audio
| Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
| Separate volume controls |
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Music, sound effects, voice |
| Surround sound |
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| Subtitles |
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Hero chatter not subtitled. |
| Closed captions |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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| Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Issues fixed
General
Fast scrolling
- On older versions of Majesty, faster computers could cause the game to scroll excessively fast.
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Change ScrollSpeed in registry (Windows)[3]
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- Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyberlore\Majesty (base game) or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyberlore\Majesty Expansion (The Northern Expansion).
- Open
ScrollSpeed and change it appropriately.
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Edit the configuration file (Linux)[citation needed]
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Open up the configuration file and add <ScrollSpeed>#</ScrollSpeed>. Replace # with a number.
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Windows
Stability issues
The original versions of Majesty will run on modern operating systems, however the game will be unstable and might crash frequently.
Run majesty.exe or majx.exe with the following command line arguments: -nothreadedcursor -useglblit[citation needed]
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Linux
No sound
- SDL library that is included with the game is set to use OSS for sound only.
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General[citation needed]
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- The software is not updated frequently.
Install the osspd package (Some distros like ArchLinux refers the package as ossp) and enable/start the osspd/osspd.service service.
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If using PulseAudio[citation needed]
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Run the game with padsp command (It is included with main PulseAudio package, if not, look for pulseaudio-utils)
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If using ALSA[citation needed]
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- Install alsa-oss package
- Load the following kernel modules as root with
modprobe command:
- snd-seq-oss
- snd-pcm-oss
- snd-mixer-oss
Run the game with aoss -32 (On 32 bit system just use aoss)
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Fullscreen issue with multiple monitors
Run the game in windowed mode using -w command line. However, due to the fact that the windowed mode is at fixed 800x600 resolution, you may need to use the resolution scaling using xrandr command, if on 1080p or 4K resolution.
The mouse isn't captured in windowed mode
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Compile libjail.so[citation needed]
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- The multilibrary version of GCC and 32-bit version of SDL is required for 64 bit system.
- Create a text file and name it jail.c
- Copy and paste the content of this script
- In Terminal run
gcc -m32 -fPIC -shared -o libjail.so jail.c -ldl (If on 32 bit system remove the -m32 argument)
- Once compiled, move libjail.so to the main game folder
- Point out the file to use before running the game using
LD_PRELOAD= command at the beginning.Example:
LD_PRELOAD=$HOME/games/majesty/libjail.so $HOME/games/majesty/majx -w
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Other information
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| DirectDraw |
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| Executable | PPC | 16-bit |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
| Windows | | |
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| Linux | | | |
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PowerPC support is on the first release only. |
| Mac OS (Classic) | | | |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
| Audio |
OSS |
Linux only. |
| Interface |
SDL |
SDL is Linux only |
| Cutscenes |
Bink Video |
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| Multiplayer |
GameSpy |
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System requirements
| Windows | Mac OS (Classic) | Linux |
| Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
95 |
98 |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 166 MHz (or equivalent)
| Intel Pentium II 300 MHz (or equivalent) |
| System memory (RAM) |
32 MB |
128 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
314 MB |
366 MB |
| Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 7 compatible
| DirectX 9 compatible |
| Mac OS |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
8.6 | |
| Processor (CPU) |
PowerPC 233 MHz
| PowerPC 350 MHz |
| System memory (RAM) |
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128 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
314 MB |
366 MB |
| Video card (GPU) |
16-bit Display at 800x600 | |
| Linux |
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Minimum |
| Operating system (OS) |
Linux Kernel 2.2 |
| Processor (CPU) |
166 MHz |
| System memory (RAM) |
48 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
410 MB |
| Video card (GPU) |
8 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References
