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Cultures: The Discovery of Vinland

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Cultures: The Discovery of Vinland
Cultures: The Discovery of Vinland cover
Developers
Funatics Development
Publishers
THQ
Kalypso Media
Release dates
Windows July 25, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Isometric
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Building, RTS
Themes Medieval
Series Cultures
Cultures: The Discovery of Vinland on MobyGames
Cultures: The Discovery of Vinland on Wikipedia
Cultures
Cultures: The Discovery of Vinland 2000
Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard 2002
Northland 2002
Cultures - 8th Wonder of the World 2003

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Does not include the expansion. Bundled with Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard.
Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Revenge of the Rain God
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Game.cif[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Video Settings.
Video Settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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

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 Settings.
Audio Settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Noises & Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
The Cultures Online servers have been shut down.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 6.0m[1]
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer DirectPlay 1.64[2]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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

  1. Verified by User:Nessy on 2019-06-09
    Version number found in Mss32.dll in the game installation folder.
  2. Verified by User:Nessy on 2021-01-26