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Haegemonia: Legions of Iron

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Haegemonia: Legions of Iron
Haegemonia: Legions of Iron cover
Developers
Digital Reality
Publishers
Anuman Interactive
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows November 14, 2002
macOS (OS X) November 15, 2013[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Free-roaming camera
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS, 4X, Strategy
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Haegemonia
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Haegemonia: Legions of Iron on Wikipedia
Haegemonia
Haegemonia: Legions of Iron 2002
Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage 2003

Warnings

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

Haegemonia: Legions of Iron is a singleplayer and multiplayer free-roaming camera RTS, 4X and strategy game in the Haegemonia series.

General information

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)
CD key
SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Includes Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage.
Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
A free demo can be downloaded from 4Players.de (German site, but English demo).

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Solon Heritage Retail version requires base game; digital distribution version is a standalone title.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The most recent patch is 1.10, available from Patches-Scrolls.
All 1.10 patched version still show 1.09 in the menu. Digital releases are already on 1.10.

Skip intro videos

Use the Haegemonia: Legions of Iron intro skip. Deleting the files also works but causes error messages in-game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Digital Reality\Haegemonia\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/294770/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 4]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/294770/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
On/off only.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Set in registry (see Game data).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate cap.

Widescreen resolution

Must be performed each time you launch the game - resets when viewing options menu.
The whole registry branch might disappear
Registry edit for widescreen resolution[4]
  1. Open the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Digital Reality\Haegemonia
  2. Set values for ResolutionX and ResolutionY

Windowed

Use modding tools[citation needed]
  1. Install the Hegemonia: Legions of Iron Modding Tools.
  2. Go to Inf_files_uncrypted\Inf in the Modding Tools folder.
  3. Copy program.inf to Inf in the installation folder, replacing the existing file when prompted.
  4. Open this new program.inf.
  5. Change English to your language if you were not playing in English.
  6. Set SkipStartScreen to 0 to disable the automatic mission loading.
  7. Save your changes and close the file. The game will now run in a window. Change FullScreen to 1 for fullscreen mode.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Use ShortcutEditor.exe in the installation folder. Full key remapping is not supported; some keys can't be selected, and some functions (like Pause) cannot be rebound.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

3D movement

To move up and down (z-axis), press M and Shift and then right-click to set vertical coordinates.[5]

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Effect and Speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and Steam only.
German
Retail and Steam only; download for GOG.com release.
Hungarian
Retail only.
Italian
Retail and Steam only.
Japanese
Retail only.
Polish
Retail only.
Russian
Retail only.
Spanish
Retail and Steam only.

Issues fixed

Sound System Error

Mod DB download[citation needed]

If you have the Steam version download and install Steam Legions of Iron Sound System and MP Fix

If you have another version of the game you might have to use an older version of the fix: Haegemonia Legions of Iron Sound System Fix

Disable audio[6]
  1. In the options menu, set all audio sliders to zero.
  2. Restart the game.

Ships become transparent

If textures on ships start disappearing after reloading (which makes the ships transparent / invisible):

Replace starfield.mat[7]

Replace the starfield.mat file in Legions of Iron with the one from The Solon Heritage:

  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Shaders\Materials in the Solon Heritage install directory and copy starfield.mat
  2. Go to <path-to-game>\Shaders\Materials in the Legions of Iron directory and replace the starfield.mat there
Install patch 1.10[8]

Install patch 1.10 from here.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[9] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 19664,19667
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 1
ATI Radeon 7500
Matrox Parhella
DirectX 8.1 compatible


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]
  2. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/294770/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (294770) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  4. 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

  1. Mac Game Update: 34 New Additions ● GOG.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  2. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  3. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  4. wsgf.org - last accessed on 26 May 2023
  5. g4li.org - last accessed on 26 May 2023
  6. thegameengine.org - last accessed on 26 May 2023
  7. forum.planet3dnow.de - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  8. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named 1.10
  9. Pricing | GameSpy Technology