Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
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Developers | |
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Sierra On-Line | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Sierra On-Line |
Digital | Activision |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 18, 1999 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 80 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Series | Gabriel Knight |
Key points
- Potentially confusing controls, with the protagonist and the camera controlled independently.
General information
- Gabriel Knight Omnipedia - Wiki for the series
- Sierra Gamers - Game page on Ken Williams' official website
- The Sierra Help Pages - Extensive troubleshooting guide
- Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature on the series
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Essential improvements
Updated installer
- The Sierra Help Pages Installer for the retail release allows the whole game to be installed to the hard drive, and addresses compatibility issues of the original installer.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sierra On-Line\Gabriel Knight 3\Engine\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/497360/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save Games\[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/497360/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Maximum selectable resolution of 1024x768. For higher resolutions see Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | No frame rate/refresh rate cap. |
Widescreen resolution
Set resolution in registry[1] |
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(alternative) Add Command line arguments[2] |
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Run the game with the following parameters: |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
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 | General, Voices, SFX, Music. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | Retail release only. | |||
German | Retail release only; download for digital releases. | |||
Italian | Retail release only. | |||
Polish | Retail release only. | |||
Portuguese | Retail release only. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail only. Released as "Gabriel Knight 3: Sangue Profano" (Brasoft / Sierra). | |||
Spanish | Retail version, download. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 | |
Software renderer |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 166 MHz | Intel Pentium 233 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 137 MB | 403 MB |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible | 3D Accelerated card |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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 (497360) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ 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).