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Europa Universalis
Europa Universalis	2000
Europa Universalis II	2001
Europa Universalis III	2007
Europa Universalis: Rome	2008
For the Glory: A Europa Universalis Game	2009
Europa Universalis IV	2013

Europa Universalis: Rome is a singleplayer top-down view strategy and simulation game in the Europa Universalis series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Paradox Plaza forum

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Gold Edition
Green Man Gaming
Steam		Gold Edition
Mac App Store (unavailable)		Gold Edition
Publisher website (unavailable)		Gold Edition

A free demo is available per direct link on Steam: steam://install/22160.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Vae Victis

Game data

Game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/23420/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save games\^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/23420/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Text-based interface elements do not scale.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Modify `settings.txt`
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		x4 - x16
Anti-aliasing (AA)		MSAA x2 - x8
Vertical sync (Vsync)		On/off
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Set with debug console^{[citation needed]}
Open the debug console (`ALT + 21`, `ALT+0167` or `§`). Type `fullscreen` The game window will appear on-top of other windows, requiring a third-party utility to adjust.

Input

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Camera sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Effect, Music, Ambient
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian				Fan translation by «EURome.ru Team»

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		32	Co-op, Versus

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c
Shader Model support	2.0

Executable	PPC	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)				The Gold Edition release does not support PowerPC Macs.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.9 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	3D Accelerator 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 2.0 support

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.3.9
Processor (CPU)	PowerPC G5 series Intel x86
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	3D Accelerator 64 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
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 (23420) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

[gamedir-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).

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 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 (23420) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (23420) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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Developers

	Paradox Development Studio
macOS (OS X)	Virtual Programming
Publishers
	Paradox Interactive
Engines
	Clausewitz
Release dates
Windows	April 15, 2008
macOS (OS X)	July 4, 2008
Reception
Metacritic	73
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Top-down view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Strategy, Simulation
Themes	Classical, Historical
Series	Europa Universalis