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Latest revision as of 20:33, 10 September 2024
This page is for the original release. For the remake, see Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake.
Developers | |
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Ubisoft Montreal | |
Publishers | |
Ubisoft | |
Engines | |
Jade | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 2, 2003 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 89 |
IGDB | 84 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person, Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Adventure, Platform |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Fantasy, Middle East |
Series | Prince of Persia |
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a singleplayer third-person and bird's-eye view action, adventure and platform game in the Prince of Persia series.
A remastered version of Prince of Persia (1989) can't be unlocked on PC, but can be unlocked on the 6th gen consoles.
General information
- Official franchise Discord server
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | DVD releases have a simple disc check. CD releases have SafeDisc v3 DRM[Note 1]. Russian copies use StarForce 3 DRM[Note 2]. |
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Epic Games Store | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | ||||
Ubisoft Store | Ubisoft+ | |||
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable) | [7] |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Demo
- A free demo is available here.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Subscription gaming service | Available via Ubisoft+. |
Essential improvements
Patches
- This is an official patch which fixes issues with NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GPUs. Download it here.
- The executable file provided with this patch is totally DRM-free.
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Skip loading screens
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Notes
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Game data
Configuration file location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Hardware.ini[Note 3] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13600/pfx/[Note 4] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Profiles\[Note 3] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13600/pfx/[Note 4] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Ubisoft Connect |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | In-engine cutscenes may have audio desynchronization. See Game engine runs fast / Prince's animations seem too fast. |
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High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Widescreen resolution
Use nemesis2000's Widescreen Fix (Hor+)[10] |
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Notes
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Windowed
Use DxWnd[11] |
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Post-processing
Disable bloom, blur and distortion |
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Increase pixelated post-processing effects and water resolution |
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Supports Mouse4 and Mouse5 buttons. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | XInput controllers have sensitivity issues. See Issues fixed.[12] | |
Full controller support | Main Menu and Esc Menu only work with mouse and keyboard. | |
Controller remapping | Might require manual mapping by double-clicking bind and pressing desired button. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | [13] | |
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | ||
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Effects, Music, and Voice sliders. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX Unified (compatible with EAX 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0) | |
Royalty free audio |
- May require DirectSound3D restoration software to enable EAX and surround sound functionality on Windows Vista and later.
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Fan translation, download. | |||
Italian | Retail, Steam and Ubisoft Connect only. Patch for the GOG release here. |
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Polish | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation. Download. | |||
Russian | Retail and GOG only. Patch for other digital releases here. | |||
Spanish | Retail, Steam and Ubisoft connect only. Patch for GOG release here. | |||
Simplified Chinese | Retail only |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. | ||
vorpX | G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. See here for an alternate profile. |
Issues fixed
Launcher not working
- Some Intel CPUs are erroneously recognized as “Pentium II”.
Run pop.exe from the game directory while the launcher is open[14]
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Enable Alt+F4
Instructions |
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Alt+Tab not working
- After opening the game, pressing Alt+Tab ↹ does not return to the desktop.
Before entering the game, open a folder or a TXT file and enter the game. |
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Controller input not detected. Unable to use Power of Haste when using Controller
- Gamepads do not work on some systems.[15]
- The game also has sensitivity issues with diagonal input for XInput controllers. Running diagonally does not work because the game expects DirectInput values.
- XInput Controllers need the below fix to enable both triggers to work simultaneously to use The Power of Haste in the game.[16]
Use XInput Plus[17] |
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Notes
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Use Steam Input to map the Left trigger to the R key on keyboard |
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Notes
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Use the Xbox button prompts |
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Water effects not rendering
- When Water Effects are enabled, water does not render on certain modern systems, such as those employing Intel HD Graphics.
Disable Water Effects in the video settings
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Use 3D Vision fix |
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Extreme amounts of fog
- Fixed in the GOG.com version.[18]
Use Peixoto's patch |
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Disable Fog in the video settings
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Edit INI file[19] |
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Missing interface
Edit INI file[citation needed] |
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Most of the dialogues have a low volume that makes them inaudible
- Appears to be an issue on modern systems only.
Enable Loudness Equalization |
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Prince stuck in attack motion / Game running too fast
Force CPU affinity to one core[20] |
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Use DxWnd |
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Use the following configuration in DxWnd:
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Game engine runs fast / Prince's animations seem too fast
- Don't use RTSS. The prince is still fast.
Limit the frame rate to 60 FPS[citation needed] |
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Enable V-Sync and set the refresh rate to 60Hz |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9.0b | [21] |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video |
Extract all Voice, SFX & Music files
Instructions |
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Notes
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Remastered Textures
Instructions |
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Mods
Prince and Farah Concept Art
- This mod makes The Prince and Farah's appearance look like in the concept art.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98SE, ME | 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 800 MHz AMD Athlon 800 MHz |
Intel Pentium 4 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 8500 Matrox Parhelia DirectX 9.0b compatible | Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 ATI Radeon 9500 |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX 8.0 compatible |
- Nvidia GeForce 4 MX is not supported.
- GPUs without Hardware T&L are not supported.
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]
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[3][4][5][6] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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). - ↑ 4.0 4.1 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 (13600) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Windows Vista support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 7 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 8.1 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 10 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Prince of Persia: SoT - Xbox.com - last accessed on 2024-05-12
- ↑ Verified by User:Anon on 2020-07-01
- ↑ Can not progress past the very first area - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Widescreen HD Test №2 PC - YouTube - last accessed on 2017-03-02
- ↑ speedrun.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Sands of Time with the xbox360 controller walking, not running - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)
- ↑ Verified by User:Genesisbr on 2023-07-27
- ↑ Verified by User:If and while on 2024-08-23
- ↑ Gamepad not working; Graphics not working. :: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:Sidspyker on 2020-09-22
- ↑ gog.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Prince of Persia: Sands of Time has been updated! Details inside :D, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:Anon on 2020-07-01
- ↑ Sands of Time goes TOO FAST!!! - last accessed on June 2024
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-25
- Tested the vanilla version in-game with Bandicam and it uses DX9.