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Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game

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Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game
Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game cover
Developers
BL-Logic
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Engines
Europa
Release dates
Windows February 23, 2010
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Menu-based, Point and select
Genres Strategy, Wargame
Art styles Stylized
Themes Interwar, World War II, Cold War, Historical
Series Hearts of Iron
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Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game is a singleplayer top-down view strategy and wargame game in the Hearts of Iron series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
[1]
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.12 is the latest version as of July 26, 2020. As of June 10, 2022, the version of the AODGame.exe is 1.11.12.5, but the game itself states 1.12 on the menu screen.
On June 9, 2022, Steam user Lennartos who is flagged as a developer, stated in a forum post on Steam that patch 1.13 is "Soon :)".

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42850/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Scenarios\Save games[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42850/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Game assumes 1024x768 for interface, but no issues specific to widescreen.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Can be set in arsenal.exe. The game needs to be run in 16-bit color depth.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

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
Surround sound
Subtitles
No spoken dialogue.
Closed captions
Not required; everything is shown in game log, and can be configured to produce a popup if needed.
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz Athlon/Pentium 3 or better
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Windows/DirectX Compatible videocard


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/42850/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (42850) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for 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

  1. Verified by User:Itsumi1117 on 2022-09-14