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Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard

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Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard cover
Developers
Liquid Entertainment
Publishers
Original Atari
Budget retail re-releases Sold Out Software
Current Hasbro
Release dates
Windows September 25, 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Strategy, RTS, RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Dungeons & Dragons
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Warnings

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

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view strategy, RTS and RPG game in the Dungeons & Dragons series.

General information

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GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1] in international releases, StarForce DRM in Russian release.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
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 and GamePressure.

Essential improvements

Patches

Official patches can be found on Patches-Scrolls.

Skip intro movies

Run the game with the -nointro command line argument

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Dragonshard\
.pro files contain configurations for individual game profiles, editing possible with notepad.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Dragonshard\
Saves contains individual save games.
Profiles contains profiles and campaign progress.

Save game cloud syncing

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

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Set desktop resolution in-game then toggle with Alt+ Enter.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
On/off only.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
On/off only.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Disabled by default.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Voice and Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Game mutes and pauses.
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Retail only.
Polish
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Connection types

Issues fixed

"An unhandled exception has occurred" when choosing GameSpy multiplayer

Temporarily disconnect internet[4]
  1. Disconnect from the internet.
  2. Choose the GameSpy option in-game.
  3. Reconnect to the internet.
  4. Return to the game and continue normally.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D, Z3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


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]

References