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Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game.

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com
Steam		Can be played without Steam running

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Tzar: El Cid y la Reconquista	Released only in Spain.
Tzar: El Rey Arturo y Excalibur	Released only in Spain and Italy.
Tzar: El Imperio de Gengis Khan	Released only in Spain and Italy.
Tzar: Los Dominios de la Magia	Released only in Spain.

Essential improvements

Patches

Official patches that update the game to the latest version can be found here.

Unofficial patches

Unofficial patch 1.13, which provides balance changes, is available here.

Unofficial patch 1.16b can be found at ModDB

Unofficial launcher available from ModDB, featuring quality-of-life improvements

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\tzar.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

External options menu.

In-game options menu.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Use cnc-ddraw
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use cnc-ddraw
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use cnc-ddraw
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Use cnc-ddraw
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution

Install HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200).^[1]

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
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

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound, Music
Surround sound		5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 2.0
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Bulgarian				Retail only.
French				Retail only.
German				Retail and GOG.com only.
Italian				Retail only.
Polish				Retail only.
Portuguese				Retail and GOG.com only.
Russian				Retail only.
Spanish				Retail and GOG.com only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8	Versus
Online play		8	Versus Unofficial lobbies on tza.red and TzarOnline.com are available.

Connection types

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

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	7.0
Software renderer		GDI

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Mods

Mods can be installed two ways: extracting the files directly into the game's directory, or in the <path-to-game>\Packs folder (create it manually if not present) and use this package.

Tzar and the Legend of the Return of the Crown

FX Interactive's additional campaigns, with English translation

Translated official campaigns

El Cid and the Reconquista 2.0: with Spanish voices, unvoiced

The Empire of Genghis Khan 1.0: voiced and unvoiced

The Domains of Magic 1.0: with Spanish voices, unvoiced

Excalibur and King Arthur 1.0: translation patch

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000
Processor (CPU)	200 MHz Pentium
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	202 MB

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (825730) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ Tzar - Burden of the Crown HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200) - last accessed on 2022-08-22

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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).

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (825730) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (825730) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] Tzar - Burden of the Crown HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200) - last accessed on 2022-08-22

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[1]

@@ Line 61: / Line 61: @@
 ===Patches===
 {{ii}} Official patches that update the game to the latest version can be found [https://www.moddb.com/games/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown/downloads/tzar-patches here].
+===Unofficial patches===
 {{ii}} Unofficial patch 1.13, which provides balance changes, is available [https://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zmmozrzwncj here].
-{{ii}} Unofficial patch Tzar 1.16b, can be found at https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown-116b/downloads/tzar116b
+{{ii}} Unofficial patch 1.16b can be found at [https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown-116b/downloads/tzar116b ModDB]
-{{ii}} Unofficial Launcher https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-r2p-launcher/downloads/tzar-ready2play-launcher . You need to add cnc-draw and set it to GDI rendering, opengl CTD-ed on me
+{{ii}} Unofficial launcher available from [https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-r2p-launcher/downloads/tzar-ready2play-launcher ModDB], featuring quality-of-life improvements
-{{ii}} Use use https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases for stability.
-{{ii}} Digital music Ogg format  = true
-{{ii}} Digital music Ogg format  = https://github.com/dippy-dipper/ogg-winmm. Rip the music to ogg, put the files in Music folder, configure ogg-winmm
-{{ii}} Patch with cnc-draw, music in digital format, all campaigns
-https://mega.nz/file/mNsHWYCR#fJgFkTuFzSw_7Vitym-o64BxwQo1ElUy1mgNTMHRyA8
 ==Game data==
@@ Line 109: / Line 106: @@
 |4k ultra hd wsgf award     =
 |widescreen resolution      = hackable
-|widescreen resolution notes= ''See [[#Widescreen resolution|Widescreen resolution]].''
+|widescreen resolution notes= See [[#Widescreen resolution|Widescreen resolution]].
 |multimonitor               = false
 |multimonitor notes         =
 |ultrawidescreen            = false
 |ultrawidescreen notes      =
-|4k ultra hd                = true
+|4k ultra hd                = hackable
-|4k ultra hd notes          = use https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
+|4k ultra hd notes          = Use [https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases cnc-ddraw]
 |fov                        = n/a
 |fov notes                  =
-|windowed                   = True
+|windowed                   = hackable
-|windowed notes             = use https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
+|windowed notes             = Use [https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases cnc-ddraw]
-|borderless windowed        = true
+|borderless windowed        = hackable
-|borderless windowed notes  = https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
+|borderless windowed notes  = Use [https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases cnc-ddraw]
 |anisotropic                = n/a
 |anisotropic notes          =
@@ Line 129: / Line 126: @@
 |upscaling tech             =
 |upscaling notes            =
-|vsync                      = true
+|vsync                      = hackable
-|vsync notes                = https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
+|vsync notes                = Use [https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases cnc-ddraw]
 |60 fps                     = unknown
 |60 fps notes               =
@@ Line 141: / Line 138: @@
 }}
 ===[[Glossary:Widescreen resolution|Widescreen resolution]]===
-{{Fixbox|description=Widescreen resolutions support|ref=<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.moddb.com/games/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown/downloads/tzar-burden-of-the-crown-hd-patch-1280x720-1920x1200-ver-30|title=Tzar - Burden of the Crown HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200)|date=2022-08-22}}</ref>|fix=
+{{Fixbox|description=Install [https://www.moddb.com/games/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown/downloads/tzar-burden-of-the-crown-hd-patch-1280x720-1920x1200-ver-30 HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200)].|ref=<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.moddb.com/games/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown/downloads/tzar-burden-of-the-crown-hd-patch-1280x720-1920x1200-ver-30|title=Tzar - Burden of the Crown HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200)|date=2022-08-22}}</ref>|fix=
-Install [https://www.moddb.com/games/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown/downloads/tzar-burden-of-the-crown-hd-patch-1280x720-1920x1200-ver-30 HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200)].
 }}
@@ Line 244: / Line 240: @@
   |audio     = n/a
   |subtitles = n/a
-  |notes     = Local retail version only.
+  |notes     = Retail only.
   |fan       =
 }}
@@ Line 252: / Line 248: @@
   |audio     = n/a
   |subtitles = n/a
-  |notes     = Local retail version only.
+  |notes     = Retail only.
   |fan       =
 }}
@@ Line 260: / Line 256: @@
   |audio     = n/a
   |subtitles = n/a
-  |notes     =
+  |notes     = Retail and GOG.com only.
   |fan       =
 }}
@@ Line 268: / Line 264: @@
   |audio     = n/a
   |subtitles = n/a
-  |notes     = Local retail version only.
+  |notes     = Retail only.
   |fan       =
 }}
@@ Line 276: / Line 272: @@
   |audio     = n/a
   |subtitles = n/a
-  |notes     =
+  |notes     = Retail only.
   |fan       =
 }}
@@ Line 284: / Line 280: @@
   |audio     = n/a
   |subtitles = n/a
-  |notes     =
+  |notes     = Retail and GOG.com only.
   |fan       =
 }}
@@ Line 292: / Line 288: @@
   |audio     = n/a
   |subtitles = n/a
-  |notes     = Local retail version only.
+  |notes     = Retail only.
   |fan       =
 }}
@@ Line 300: / Line 296: @@
   |audio     = n/a
   |subtitles = n/a
-  |notes     =
+  |notes     = Retail and GOG.com only.
   |fan       =
 }}
 }}
-{{--}} Steam version is available only in English.
-==Mods==
-https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-and-the-legend-of-the-return-of-the-crown/downloads/early-access-campaign-release
-n level 6, the extremely difficult one where you have to fortify the Keanor city across the river as well as defend against the enemy on your shore, you can let Keanor fall, in which case Sartor will be captured. The next "secret" level then will be of you rescuing Sartor, after which the game will proceed as normal. Pretty nice.
-The game was a big succes in Spain and Italy, multiple campaigns were released for these markets, this is the original site where you cand download the campaigns legally and free. The audio is in spanish. https://www-fxinteractive-com.translate.goog/p004/tzexgengis.htm?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=pt-PT
-Alternatively, tou can download the campaigns transalted to english, only without voices.
-See here the post on gog
-https://www.gog.com/forum/tzar_the_burden_of_the_crown/expansion_campaigns_and_fan_missions_english_translations
-.
-Since these campaigns were only released in Spanish (and Italian?), I have provided an English translation of them. For three of the campaigns, the translations are incorporated into the campaign file already; since "Excalibur and King Arthur" is still for sale, I have only provided translated text files that must be manually imported into the mission files. (Instructions are in the README file in the zip archive.) The zip archives below for "El Cid and the Reconquista" also includes a translated fan mission written by the author of the campaign. I hope to translate some other fan missions later and post them here. (Many fan missions--in Spanish--can be found on FX Interactive's website here.)
-Official Campaigns
-El Cid and the Reconquista: 2.0
-With Spanish voices:
-https://www.mediafire.com/file/3fzg2624hpy7vpx/The_Reconquista_2.0.7z/file
-Unvoiced:
-https://www.mediafire.com/file/1scyrb7kr8fmxas/Tzar_The_Reconquista_English_2.0_Unvoiced.7z/file
-The Empire of Genghis Khan: 1.0
-Both voiced and unvoiced included:
-https://www.mediafire.com/file/ad599r9x1a20nxe/Tzar_The_Empire_of_Genghis_Khan_English.7z/file
-The Domains of Magic: 1.0
-With Spanish voices:
-https://www.mediafire.com/file/8c1uyrfdviemwo4/Tzar_The_Domains_of_Magic_English_1.0.7z/file
-Unvoiced:
-https://www.mediafire.com/file/fazfyw9zqcm1mme/Tzar_The_Domains_of_Magic_English_1.0_Unvoiced.7z/file
-Excalibur and King Arthur: 1.0
-Translation Patch:
-https://www.mediafire.com/file/dn8oss83kqin88o/Tzar_Excalibur_EnglishTranslationPatch_1.0.7z/file
 ==Network==
@@ Line 354: / Line 311: @@
 |lan play modes       = Versus
 |lan play notes       =
-|online play          = true
+|online play          = hackable
 |online play players  = 8
 |online play modes    = Versus
-|online play notes    = https://tza.red/ Online matchmaking
+|online play notes    = Unofficial lobbies on [https://tza.red/ tza.red] and [https://tzaronline.com/ TzarOnline.com] are available.
 |asynchronous         =
 |asynchronous notes   =
@@ Line 413: / Line 370: @@
 |linux executable notes =
 }}
+===Mods===
+{{ii}} Mods can be installed two ways: extracting the files directly into the game's directory, or in the {{folder|{{p|game}}\Packs}} folder (create it manually if not present) and use [https://www.moddb.com/mods/7-new-terrain-types-for-random-maps/downloads/tzar-gog-wdt-version this package].
+{{mm}} [https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-and-the-legend-of-the-return-of-the-crown/downloads/early-access-campaign-release Tzar and the Legend of the Return of the Crown]
+{{mm}} [https://www.fxinteractive.com/p004/extra004.htm FX Interactive's additional campaigns], with [https://www.gog.com/forum/tzar_the_burden_of_the_crown/expansion_campaigns_and_fan_missions_english_translations English translation]
+====Translated official campaigns====
+{{mm}} El Cid and the Reconquista 2.0: [https://www.mediafire.com/file/3fzg2624hpy7vpx/The_Reconquista_2.0.7z/file with Spanish voices], [https://www.mediafire.com/file/1scyrb7kr8fmxas/Tzar_The_Reconquista_English_2.0_Unvoiced.7z/file unvoiced]
+{{mm}} The Empire of Genghis Khan 1.0: [https://www.mediafire.com/file/ad599r9x1a20nxe/Tzar_The_Empire_of_Genghis_Khan_English.7z/file voiced and unvoiced]
+{{mm}} The Domains of Magic 1.0: [https://www.mediafire.com/file/8c1uyrfdviemwo4/Tzar_The_Domains_of_Magic_English_1.0.7z/file with Spanish voices], [https://www.mediafire.com/file/fazfyw9zqcm1mme/Tzar_The_Domains_of_Magic_English_1.0_Unvoiced.7z/file unvoiced]
+{{mm}} Excalibur and King Arthur 1.0: [https://www.mediafire.com/file/dn8oss83kqin88o/Tzar_Excalibur_EnglishTranslationPatch_1.0.7z/file translation patch]
 ==System requirements==

Developers

	Haemimont Games
Publishers
	Take-Two Interactive
Italy, Spain	FX Interactive
Digital	Haemimont Games
Release dates
Windows	January 27, 2000
Reception
IGDB	60
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RTS
Themes	Medieval, Fantasy