Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Developers
	Revolution Software
Publishers
	Virgin Interactive
Engines
Original	Virtual Theatre
Re-release	ScummVM
Release dates
DOS	September 30, 1996
Windows	September 30, 1996
Mac OS (Classic)	September 30, 1996
Windows (ScummVM)	January 11, 2011
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM)	October 18, 2012
Linux (ScummVM)	March 20, 2015

Broken Sword

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars	1996
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror	1997
Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon	2003
Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death (Secrets of the Ark)	2006
Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars (unofficial)	2008
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered	2009
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut	2010
Broken Sword 5 - The Serpent's Curse	2013

For the 2010 remake, see Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut.

Key points

Released as Circle of Blood in the United States

Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

Broken Sword Wiki

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Is bundled with Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut. Pre-configured with ScummVM.
Steam		Free DLC for Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut. Pre-configured with ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SWORD.INF
Windows	<path-to-game>\sword1.ini
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux

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Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SAVES\
Windows	<path-to-game>\save
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter (when using DOSBox or ScummVM).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, speech, FX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Russian				Unofficial localization by «Fargus Multimedia»

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	2	Original Windows release
DOS video modes
64-bit executable		Requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Smacker

System requirements

DOS

Windows

Mac OS (Classic)

macOS (OS X)

Linux

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	5.0	6.2
Processor (CPU)	Intel 486DX2 66 MHz	Intel Pentium 60 MHz
System memory (RAM)	8 MB	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	18 MB	150 MB
Video card (GPU)	SVGA-compatible 1 MB of VRAM

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel 486DX2 66 MHz	Intel Pentium 60 MHz
System memory (RAM)	8 MB	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	18 MB	150 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 2 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz Intel Core Duo
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM