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Europa 1400: The Guild

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Europa 1400: The Guild
Europa 1400: The Guild cover
Developers
4 Head Studios
Publishers
2002-2011 JoWood Productions
2011-2016 Nordic Games
2016-present THQ Nordic
Release dates
Windows October 25, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Business, Strategy
Themes Medieval
Series The Guild
Europa 1400: The Guild on HowLongToBeat
Europa 1400: The Guild on IGDB
Europa 1400: The Guild on MobyGames
Europa 1400: The Guild on Wikipedia
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Europa 1400: The Guild is a singleplayer bird's-eye view business and strategy game in the The Guild series.

General information

Offical Nordic Games Support Forum
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)
SecuROM 4 DRM in base game, SecuROM 5 DRM in Gold Edition.
Windows
GamersGate
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Gold Edition.
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Gold Edition.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Gold Edition.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Gold Edition.
Windows
Humble Store
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Gold Edition.
Windows
Steam
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Gold Edition.
Windows

Version differences

The Gold Edition includes the base game and the expansion.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Gaukler, Gruften & Geschütze Available separately only in the German-speaking market
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches for non-German versions can be found here.
For the German versions see: Main game, The expansion and Gold Edition.

Skip intro videos

Change parameters in game.ini
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open game.ini.
  3. Change show_intro=1 to show_intro=0.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\game.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39520/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\resources\gamedata\Saves[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39520/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Change Bildmodus=FULLSCREEN in =DIRECTWINDOW in game.ini and use TL.exe to run the game
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)
No VSync in Software TnL mode.
Always-on in Hardware TnL mode; Doesn't function on modern Windows without a wrapper.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate cap.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Press F12 in-game to remap hotkeys.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Change invert_mouse=0 to =1 in game.ini
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effects, Music, Speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Need to be forced to focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play

Connection types

Issues unresolved

Crash on launch

Run T&L executable[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Run TL.exe or Europa1400Gold_TL.exe.

Low frame rate and missing graphics stuff

Extract DDrawCompat to the game directory[1]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6, 8 Software TnL mode uses 6; Hardware TnL mode uses 8.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 6.1c[2]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 852 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/39520/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (39520) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Reference
  2. Verified by User:Nessy on 2020-07-23
    Version number found in Mss32.dll in the game installation folder.