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The Settlers III

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The Settlers III
The Settlers III cover
Developers
Blue Byte Software
Release dates
Windows November 30, 1998
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The Settlers III guide on StrategyWiki
The Settlers III on Wikipedia
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⤏ Go to series page
The Settlers 1994
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici 1996
The Settlers III 1998
The Settlers IV 2001
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings 2004
The Settlers II: 10th Anniversary 2006
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire 2007
The Settlers: Rise of Cultures 2008
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom 2010
The Settlers Online 2012
The Settlers - History Edition 2018
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici - History Edition 2018
The Settlers III: History Edition 2018
The Settlers IV - History Edition 2018
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings - History Edition 2018
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - History Edition 2018
The Settlers 7: History Edition 2018
The Settlers: New Allies 2023

Key points

Cannot use Alt+Tab ↹ while in-game

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Settlers III: Ultimate Collection includes the base game and both expansions and is identical to the Gold Edition.
Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Mission CD Bundled with The Settlers III: Gold Edition.
Windows
Quest of the Amazons Bundled with The Settlers III: Gold Edition.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Blubyte\Siedler3\1.0\General[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

External video settings.
External video settings.

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Input settings

External control settings.
External control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

External audio settings.
External audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
Russian
Unofficial translation by «7 Wolf»

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
20
Online play
20

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 2300-2400, 47624
UDP 2300-2400, 3343-3400
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, NT 4.0
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 100 MHz Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB 1.3 GB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  2. ↑ 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