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Panzer General III: Scorched Earth

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Panzer General III: Scorched Earth
Panzer General III: Scorched Earth cover
Developers
Strategic Simulations Inc.
Publishers
Strategic Simulations Inc.
Re-releases Ubisoft
Engines
NetImmerse
Release dates
Windows October 2000
Reception
Metacritic 71
IGDB n/a
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres TBS, Strategy
Themes World War II
Series Panzer General
Panzer General III: Scorched Earth on IGDB
Panzer General III: Scorched Earth on MobyGames
Panzer General III: Scorched Earth on Wikipedia
Panzer General
Panzer General 1994
Allied General 1995
Star General 1996
Fantasy General (series)
Pacific General 1997
Panzer General II 1997
People's General 1998
Panzer General 3D Assault 1999
Panzer General III: Scorched Earth 2000

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Panzer General III: Scorched Earth is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view TBS and strategy game in the Panzer General series.

General information

Released as Panzer General: Unternehmen Barbarossa in Germany and Panzer General III: Front de l'est in France.
Die PanzerLiga, a multiplayer community for Five-Star General, Panzer Corps and Strategic Command series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

  • The latest official patch is 1.1, and can be downloaded from Patches-Scrolls.de for English, French and German releases.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Input

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

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
4
Online play
4 The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 400 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 compatible
Other 8x 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]

References