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Corsairs: Conquest at Sea

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Corsairs: Conquest at Sea
Corsairs: Conquest at Sea cover
Developers
Microids
Publishers
Retail Microids
Digital Anuman Interactive
Release dates
Windows March 3, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Piracy
Series Corsairs
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Corsairs: Conquest at Sea is a singleplayer top-down view strategy game in the Corsairs series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Illegal Table of Contents + OverSized DRM (lead-out area shortened and used for data, to prevent most contemporary CD-RW drives from copying the method)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Corsairs Gold.
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Corsairs Gold.
Windows

Version differences

The Gold edition includes the base game and The New Conquerors expansion pack.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The New Conquerors
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Official patches exist for the base game and the Gold Edition.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\corsairs.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents
Can be remapped to a different location in the configuration file.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Hardcoded to 4:3. GOG.com version upscaled while maintaining the aspect ratio.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
List of key mappings available in the readme file.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

General settings menu
General settings menu

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound, music, voices.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

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

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 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