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Fantasy Wars

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Fantasy Wars
Fantasy Wars cover
Developers
Ino-Co
Publishers
2007-2018 1C Company
2018-2022 1C Entertainment
2022-present Fulqrum Publishing
Engines
TheEngine
Release dates
Windows August 30, 2007
Reception
Metacritic 67
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres TBS
Themes Fantasy
Series Fantasy Wars
Fantasy Wars on HowLongToBeat
Fantasy Wars on IGDB
Fantasy Wars on MobyGames
Fantasy Wars on Wikipedia
Fantasy Wars
Fantasy Wars 2007
Elven Legacy 2009

Fantasy Wars 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

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is 1.1: international | Russian

Skip intro videos

Edit configuration file[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\LocData\Video
  2. Open intros.list with a text editor.
  3. Empty the file's content and save it.

Notes

The in-engine intro will still play, but company splashes no longer will.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Fantasy Wars\Profiles
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/63900/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Fantasy Wars\Profiles
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/63900/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

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

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 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
Only a list of preset hotkeys is available.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Also includes X-axis inversion option.
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Voice, sound effects, music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Retail only.
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Hot seat
LAN play
4
Online play

Connection types

Issues unresolved

Missing strings

For unknown reasons, many strings are left unassigned, leaving some game options like advanced graphics settings being displayed as "uiOptVideoAdd", etc.

Issues fixed

Game does not restart after exiting

The game is unable to end its process after exiting.
Manually end the fw.exe process in the Task Manager before trying to restart the game.[2]

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) 2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz
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


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>/63900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (63900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Plok on 2023-03-19
  2. Verified by User:Plok on 2023-03-19