Stronghold

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Stronghold

Developers
	Beyond Software
Publishers
	Strategic Simulations Inc.
Release dates
DOS	1993
Windows	September 17, 2015
macOS (OS X)	September 17, 2015
Linux	September 17, 2015

This page is for the 1993 game. For the unrelated 2001 game, see Stronghold (2001).

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com

The retail version requires the manual to answer copy protection questions. The GOG.com version has the copy protection cracked (type anything, then press ↵ Enter).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\GAME.CFG
Windows	<path-to-game>\GAME.CFG
macOS (OS X)
Linux

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\STRONG.SAV\SAVE.*** <path-to-game>\STRONG.SAV\SAVES.TXT <path-to-game>\HIGH.TXT
Windows	<path-to-game>\STRONG.SAV\SAVE.*** <path-to-game>\STRONG.SAV\SAVES.TXT <path-to-game>\HIGH.TXT
macOS (OS X)
Linux

SAVES.TXT is a save index; this file must be present for saves to be loaded.

HIGH.TXT contains high scores (Great Achievements).

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

General settings.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only (Ctrl+S and Ctrl+M).
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	VGA
64-bit executable

System requirements

DOS

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	5.0, 6.0
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	VGA