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Heroes of Annihilated Empires

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Heroes of Annihilated Empires
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Developers
GSC Game World
Release dates
Windows October 5, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 65
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Fantasy
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Heroes of Annihilated Empires is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
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
StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
CD key
Serial key for multiplayer found in the user's game library.
Windows
Steam
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CD key
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
A free demo version is available from GameFront: English, German.

Essential improvements

Patches

  • The latest official patch (1.1) and the graphics card fix are available from Patches-Scrolls.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\settings.xml[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/4800/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\Save[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/4800/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Main menu locked at 1024x768.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
UI does not scale with resolution and is extremely small in 4K.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Sound settings
Sound settings

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

Localizations

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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
7
Online play
7

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8, 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
ATI Radeon 9000
128 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8.0 compatible


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).
  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>/4800/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (4800) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References