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Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut

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Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut cover
Developers
Revolution Software
Publishers
Kalypso Media
Engines
Virtual Theatre
Release dates
Windows September 2, 2010
macOS (OS X) September 2, 2010
Linux June 18, 2013
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Broken Sword
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars 1996
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror 1997
Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon 2003
Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death (Secrets of the Ark) 2006
Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars (unofficial) 2008
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered 2009
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut 2010
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse 2013
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged 2024
Broken Sword - Parzival's Stone 2024

For the original game released in 1996, see Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.

General information

Broken Sword Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GamersGate
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes the original Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Includes the original as a free dlc
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename revlogo.ogv[citation needed]
  1. Go to movies in the installation folder.
  2. Delete/rename revlogo.ogv.

Replace in-game font

The default font used by in-game help and diary is difficult to read at high resolutions
Substitute with a system font[citation needed]
  1. Go to the hidden system folder Windows\Fonts\.
  2. Copy the fonts verdana.ttf and verdanab.ttf to <path-to-game>\.
  3. Rename verdana.ttf to LinLibertine_Re-4.4.1.ttf and verdanab.ttf to LinLibertine_Bd-4.4.1.ttf, overwriting the existing files.

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Broken Sword - Director's Cut\
macOS (OS X) ~/Library/Application Support/Broken Sword - Director's Cut
Linux ~/.bs1dc/
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Broken Sword - Director's Cut\
macOS (OS X) ~/Library/Application Support/Broken Sword - Director's Cut
Linux ~/.bs1dc/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game language settings.
In-game language settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Turkish
Fan translation. Details missing—please edit this page and add it.
Russian
Official localization by 1C-Softclub. Local retail only

Issues fixed

Erratic cursor movement in full screen mode

Replace the sprite cursor with the hardware cursor

Using a hex editor, open the game's executable and replace the hex "E8 6E 79 00 00" with "90 90 90 90 90."

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM

References