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Warrior Kings: Battles

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Warrior Kings: Battles
Warrior Kings: Battles cover
Developers
Black Cactus
Publishers
Strategy First
Release dates
Windows September 30, 2003
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Warrior Kings: Battles on Wikipedia
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Warrior Kings
Warrior Kings 2002
Warrior Kings: Battles 2003

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

WK Universal Unofficial Patch

Fixes the unit teleportation bug on high framerate
Fixes issues with the music, improves framerate when music is on
Adds widescreen resolutions in the settings.
Improves modding (allows custom maps, ...)
Install WK Universal Unofficial Patch
  1. Download the patch and extract it.
  2. Copy the file "d3d8.dll" to the game data folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Black Cactus\Warrior Kings Battles[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/299070/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saved[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/299070/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Widescreen resolution

WKB Gamestarter[citation needed]

Use the WKB Gamestarter to set the resolution.

Custom resolution in registry[citation needed]
  1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Black Cactus\Warrior Kings Battles\Renderer
  2. Change default_screen_width and default_screen_height to the desired resolution.

Windowed

Windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Black Cactus\Warrior Kings Battles\Renderer
  2. In the menu bar click Edit > New > DWORD 32-bit value.
  3. Name the new value: fullscreen
  4. Double-click it and set it to 0.

Notes

If you want to go back to fullscreen, double-click the fullscreen value and set it to 1.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spanish
Retail version, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
8 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Graphical glitches

Graphical glitches[citation needed]
This bug seems to occur on Windows 10 and/or recent Intel Graphics drivers.
  1. Download the ENB D3D8 to D3D9 converter.
  2. Extract the content of the ZIP file into the installation folder.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Me, 2000, XP and later Me, 2000, XP and later
Processor (CPU) 733 MHz x86 CPU 1 GHz x86 CPU
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible 		32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/299070/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (299070) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  3. ↑ 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