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Cossacks: European Wars

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Cossacks: European Wars
Cossacks: European Wars cover
Developers
GSC Game World
Publishers
Strategy First
cdv Software Entertainment
Release dates
Windows March 30, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Europe
Series Cossacks
Cossacks: European Wars on HowLongToBeat
Cossacks: European Wars guide on StrategyWiki
Cossacks: European Wars on MobyGames
Cossacks: European Wars on Wikipedia
Cossacks
Cossacks: European Wars 2000
Cossacks: The Art of War 2002
Cossacks: Back to War 2002
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars 2005
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe 2006
Cossacks 3 2016

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Cossacks: European Wars is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game in the Cossacks series.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
US: SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
EU: CopyLok DRM
Russian and Ukrainian versions uses StarForce DRM.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes The Art of War and Back to War expansions.
Windows
Steam
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Expansions sold separately.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

  • The latest official patch can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/4880/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\*.sav[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/4880/pfx/[Note 3]
Profile data is stored in <path-to-game>\Players

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Options menu
Options menu

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
Music and SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail only.
German
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Russian
Retail only.
Spanish
Retail only.
Ukrainian
Retail only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
6 Versus
Online play
6 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Ports

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

Issues fixed

Crash on startup/blank screen/unusable menu

Fix 1
This is the unofficial yet modern fix.
  1. Rename or remove <path-to-game>\Video directory from the install directory.
  2. Download latest version of cnc-ddraw by CnCNet.
  3. Extract it into <path-to-game>.
  4. Set dmcr.exe to run as administrator.
Fix 2[4]
This is the official, yet dated fix. No longer works on Windows 8.1, 10 or above.[citation needed] The issue is said to do with the modern graphics cards.
  1. Rename or remove <path-to-game>\Video directory from the install directory.
  2. Download cs-dd-patch.exe.
  3. Go through the patch process. It should drop ddraw.dll into the game directory.
  4. Start the game

Game running too fast/slow

Cossacks: European Wars features a unique engine timing system. While the games' speed is still dependent on the CPU clock, like many older titles, they offer a flexible speed setting in the options menu to enable the user to tweak the speed to his liking.
Running too fast[5]
  1. Go to the game settings.
  2. Choose "Slow Mode"
  3. Decrease the "Game speed" by approximately 10%.
  4. Save the settings and go play the game.

Notes

If the game is still fast, grab ACClock or CPUGrab.[6][7] If the game reverts back to fast mode, press Ctrl+D in-game.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, NT 4.0 SP4, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 400 MB
Video card (GPU) 1 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/4880/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (4880) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References