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Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse

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Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse cover
Developers
Ascaron Entertainment
Publishers
Retail (Europe) Ascaron Entertainment
Retail (USA) Encore
Retail (Spain, Italy) FX Interactive
GOG.com, Steam (formerly), ZOOM Platform Strategy First
Steam Kalypso Media
Release dates
Windows October 24, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 75
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Business, Strategy
Vehicles Naval/watercraft
Themes Europe
Series Patrician
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse on HowLongToBeat
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse on IGDB
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse on MobyGames
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse on Wikipedia
Patrician
The Patrician 1992
Patrician II: Quest for Power 2000
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse 2003
Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade 2010

Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse is an expanded release of the 2000 management game Patrician II: Quest for Power which includes the Rise of the Hanse expansion pack that was sold separately only in the German-speaking market. Internationally, the release was marketed as a separate game, but was titled Patrizier II: Gold Edition in Germany.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce DRM in Russian release
SecuROM DRM in Taiwanese release.
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Uses GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Uses DxWrapper.
Windows
Amazon.com (unavailable)
DRM details are not known
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro video

Delete/rename video files
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Delete or rename Intro_1.bik, Intro_2.bik and Intro_3.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\P2.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\gl.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33570/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33570/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Added on 26 April 2021.
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only supports 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 by default. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
GOG's custom wrapper includes support for this.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
GOG's custom wrapper includes support for this.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen Fix
  1. Download the Resolution Pack
  2. Download the desired display resolution, which should include:
images
scripts
Patrician3.exe
  1. Create a backup of the current Patrician3.exe.
  2. Copy the contents of your desired resolution folder into <path-to-game> (overwrite existing files)
  3. Run the game.
  4. From the main menu, go into Options and select the 1024x768 resolution - this is what activates the custom resolution (the 1024x768 setting has been edited out and replaced with the new resolution).

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

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Retail only.
French
Retail, GOG.com and ZOOM Platform only.
German
Retail only; download for digital versions.
Italian
Retail only.
Japanese
Retail only.
Spanish
Retail only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
8 Hot seat
LAN play
8
Online play
8 The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

Connection types

Issues fixed

Graphical artifacts when scrolling

Manifestation of the issue
Manifestation of the issue
Occurs when the user enters and exits the main menu.
Fixed in GOG.com and Zoom Platform releases.
Use a DirectDraw wrapper

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 520 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.1 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/33570/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (33570) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References