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Europa Universalis

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Europa Universalis
Europa Universalis cover
Developers
Paradox Development Studio
Publishers
Retail (North America) Strategy First
Retail (UK) Koch Media
Retail (Germany) Blackstar Interactive
Retail (Scandinavia) Vision Park
Retail (Russia) 1C Company
Retail re-releases, digital Paradox Interactive
Release dates
Windows October 23, 2000
Reception
Metacritic 86
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy, Simulation
Themes Historical
Series Europa Universalis
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Europa Universalis on Wikipedia
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Europa Universalis is a singleplayer top-down view strategy and simulation game in the Europa Universalis series.

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)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config[Note 2]
<path-to-game>\config.eu[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Scenarios\Save Games[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Input

Remapping

Edit file <path-to-game>\config\Buttons.txt, shortcuts are identified by parameter shortcut = <key>. Letters in lowercase mean the key pressed without modifier keys, uppercase means with Shift pressed. Special keys are all uppercase.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music can only be toggled on/off. SFX has a slider.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Only the narrator's lines are voiced.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail version only; download for digital releases (includes fan-edited font).
Polish
Retail version only.
Portuguese
Retail version only.[3]

Issues fixed

Getting compatibility with Windows 10/11

Information available on official Paradox Interactive forum website.

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 210 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 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]
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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