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Revision as of 04:20, 21 May 2017

American Conquest
American Conquest cover
Developers
GSC Game World
Publishers
cdv Software Entertainment
Engines
DMCR 2
Release dates
Windows November 15, 2002
American Conquest guide on StrategyWiki
American Conquest on Wikipedia
American Conquest
American Conquest 2002
American Conquest: Fight Back 2003
American Conquest: Divided Nation 2006

Key points

American Conquest: Fight Back is needed to use mods.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums
Cossacks World forum - For American Conquest
The Hawks' Forum

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1], Key for online-play.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes American Conquest: Fight Back.
Windows
Steam
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Singleplayer and multiplayer demo are both available.

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest official patch: 1.46 (only for original retail versions)

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115210/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115210/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings
General settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
7
Online play
7

Issues unresolved

Retail version not working on Windows 8 and later

The retail version doesn't work properly on Windows 8 and later.[3][citation needed] Digital versions do not have this problem (see Availability).

Issues fixed

Game running too fast

Instructions

Color issues

See Rainbow color problems in older games for solutions.

Game doesn't start

Instructions

0% progress in LAN

Instructions

Mouse doesn't work

Instructions

Other information

AI Pack

An attempt to improve AI in the game for England, France, Spain, USA, Maya and Iroquois. The main work is on larger city with higher population for a more satisfied battle after a long peacetime. It is only for land battle - the water AI was untouched.
May break AI in multiplayer games.

Other downloads

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Pentium II 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.3 GB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Other 12x CD-ROM drive

Notes

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 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>/115210/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (115210) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References