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Elven Legacy

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Elven Legacy
Elven Legacy cover
Developers
Ino-Co
Publishers
2009-2018 1C Company
2018-2022 1C Entertainment
2022-present Fulqrum Publishing
Engines
TheEngine
Release dates
Windows April 7, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 71
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres TBS
Themes Fantasy
Series Fantasy Wars
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Elven Legacy on IGDB
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Elven Legacy on Wikipedia
Fantasy Wars
Fantasy Wars 2007
Elven Legacy 2009

Elven Legacy is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view TBS game in the Fantasy Wars series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
English and German releases
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
TAGES 5 DRM and Solidshield 2 DRM in French release.
Windows
GamersGate
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Collection also available.
Windows
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Collection also available.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes all DLC.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Includes all DLC.
Windows
Publisher website (unavailable)
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Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Ranger
Windows
Siege
Windows
Magic
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for the international release is 1.0.9.3, available from Patches-Scrolls.
The v1.1 patch for the Russian release is available from Patches-Scrolls.

Skip intro videos

Use the in-game options[1]
  1. Launch the game.
  2. In the main menu, navigate to Options followed by Addition.
  3. Select the Don't show intros option.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Elven Legacy Profiles\Profiles\Profile.*\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25850/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Elven Legacy Profiles\Profiles\Profile.*\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/25850/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

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

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.
Additional video settings.
Additional video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Requires external tool to reposition window. Without it, can't move window upward.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Forceable. Perform in main menu to minimize glitches.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Asks confirmation due to performance cost and stability. May cause a font glitch on some systems.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
May run at off-60 FPS, which appears to affect audio speed timing.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Game settings.
Game settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Defers to operating system
Mouse sensitivity
Defers to operating system
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
Voice, sound effects, music
Surround sound
Stereo or 5.1. Requires restarting the game.
Subtitles
Most character speech is text-based. However, one intro video is not subtitled.
Closed captions
Non-essential; usually related to on-screen events.
Mute on focus lost
Full pause.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Retail, Steam and ZOOM Platform only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
Hot seat
LAN play
Online play
The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

Connection types

Issues unresolved

Low quality font

The Latin script font is of low resolution and has artifacting below the letters 'w' and 's'.

Issues fixed

Map editor and map generator executables blocked in Windows

Due to the expired digital certificates in MapEditor.exe and MapGenerator.exe, Windows refuses to run them.
Create backups of these executables before proceeding to edit them.
Use delcert

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce FX 5700
ATI Radeon 9600
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/25850/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (25850) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-10