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Helldorado

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Helldorado
Helldorado cover
Developers
Spellbound
Publishers
Viva Media
THQ Nordic
Engines
Trinigy Vision Engine
Release dates
Windows April 30, 2009
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Helldorado guide on StrategyWiki
Helldorado on Wikipedia
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Desperados
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive 2001
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge 2006
Helldorado 2007
Desperados III 2020

General information

Official Website (archived)
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)
 TAGES DRM and TAGES DRM Solidshield DRM.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
A German demo version can be downloaded from Mod DB.

Game data

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

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\configuration\game\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/18470/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Helldorado\Savegame\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/18470/pfx/[Note 2]

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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Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in settings.xml[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit settings.xml.
  3. Set the ENGINE_RESOLUTION_X and ENGINE_RESOLUTION_Y values to the resolution you want.
  4. Save your changes and close the file.

Windowed

Modify settings.xml[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open settings.xml.
  3. Set the ENGINE_FULLSCREEN value to 0.
  4. Save your changes and close the file.

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

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Audio settings

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

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

Issues fixed

PhysX not installed

Download and install the PhysX legacy driver[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio FMOD
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1024 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB dedicated of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible 		256 MB of VRAM

Notes

  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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. ↑ View topic - Helldorado - 21:9 FOV Fix(d) - last accessed on 2018-11-18
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Verified by User:Waschbär on 2018-11-18