Night Watch
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| Developers | |
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| Nival Interactive | |
| Publishers | |
| Cdv Software Entertainment | |
| Russia | Noviy Disk |
| Engines | |
| Silent Storm Engine | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | August 18, 2005 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 47 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time, Turn-based |
| Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
| Controls | Point and select |
| Genres | RPG |
| Art styles | Realistic |
| Themes | Fantasy |
| Series | World of Watches |
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| World of Watches | |
|---|---|
| Mafia Racing | 2005 |
| Night Watch | 2005 |
| Day Watch | 2007 |
Warnings
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
Night Watch is a singleplayer bird's-eye view RPG game in the World of Watches series.
General information
- Official website (archived)
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | |
StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] | |
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| Retail | |
Czech abc release by Prague promotion | |
- 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 Archive.org.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.01 is the latest patch for the game.
Unable to boot / Unknown Error
- d3d9.dll find the d3d9.dll fix on the page and put it in the Night Watch\Run folder to solve this problem.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | None, x2, x4, x8, x16 | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | Cannot be disabled (Low, Medium, High, Very high) | ||
| High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS | |||
| 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | Edit <path-to-game>\cfg\nwinput.cfg |
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| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
| Controller types |
|---|
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | Sound, Music, Character quotes mutable | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| German | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Czech | Retail abc release by Prague promotion. |
Changing language to English
- Download English Patch 1.01. Extract it with UniExtract and copy run directory into the game folder.
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 9.0c |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 2000 | XP |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 3 1 GHz AMD Athlon 1 GHz |
Intel Pentium 3 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon 2.0 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 8500 T&L-compatible 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible | Nvidia GeForce FX ATI Radeon 9700 T&L-compatible 128 MB of VRAM |
| Other | 4x CD-ROM Drive | |