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Death Knights of Krynn

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Death Knights of Krynn
Death Knights of Krynn cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Engines
Gold Box
Release dates
DOS 1991
Windows October 28, 2015[1]
macOS (OS X) October 28, 2015[1]
Linux October 28, 2015[1]
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Death Knights of Krynn on Wikipedia
⤏ Go to series page
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Pool of Radiance (series)
Curse of the Azure Bonds 1989
Secret of the Silver Blades 1990
Buck Rogers (series)
Champions of Krynn 1990
Neverwinter Nights 1991
Pools of Darkness 1991
Gateway to the Savage Frontier 1991
Death Knights of Krynn 1991
The Dark Queen of Krynn 1992
Treasures of the Savage Frontier 1992
Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace 1992
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures 1993

Key points

Saves and characters can be imported from Champions of Krynn (see Import saves and characters).

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
 Run in DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Bundled with Champions of Krynn and The Dark Queen of Krynn.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Import saves and characters

Saves and characters can be imported from Champions of Krynn.
Load Champions of Krynn save game[2]
  1. Ensure the save files are in the expected location.
    • For GOG.com, copy the contents of the Champions of Krynn SAVE folder into the Death Knights of Krynn SAVE_CH folder.
    • For retail, ensure that the fifth line in DKK.CFG reflects the location of the Champions of Krynn SAVE folder.
  2. Run Death Knights of Krynn and choose Load Saved Game (recommended) or Add Character to Party.
  3. Choose Champions when prompted.
  4. Choose the save slot or character to use (for characters repeat as needed to add each one).

Gold Box Companion

Gold Box Companion is a program for Windows that adds various optional features when playing the DOS version in DOSBox (automap, party HUD, raising level restrictions, character editing, etc.)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\DKK.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\DKK.CFG[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVE\
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVE\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
The default save folder can be changed by editing DKK.CFG.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

  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).

References