Warrior Kings

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Warrior Kings
Warrior Kings	2002
Warrior Kings: Battles	2003

Warnings

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

Warrior Kings is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Warrior Kings series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		LaserLock DRM
Epic Games Store
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Steam
ZOOM Platform

Essential improvements

WK Universal Unofficial Patch

Fixes the unit teleportation bug on high framerate

Fixes issues with the music, improves framerate when music is on

Fixes sight range events not always being sent (like towers not shooting arrows, cutscene not being played in Rescue Tomas)

Improves modding (allows custom maps, patch BCPs, custom campaigns, ...)

Install WK Universal Unofficial Patch
Download the patch. Extract `d3d8.dll` to `<path-to-game>`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Black Cactus\Warrior Kings^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/297570/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saved^{[Note 3]}
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/297570/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Windowed

Windowed mode^{[citation needed]}
Go to `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Black Cactus\Warrior Kings\Renderer` Create a new DWORD 32-bit value and name it fullscreen Set it to 0.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
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		Music, sound effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Spanish				Retail version, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8
Online play		8	GameSpy services have been shut down;^[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Graphical glitches

This bug seems to occur on Windows 10 and/or recent Intel Graphics drivers.

Graphical glitches fix^{[citation needed]}
Download the ENB D3D8 to D3D9 converter. Extract the content of the ZIP file into the installation folder.

Unit teleportation

Units sometimes stop moving and teleport when the framerate is high.

Install the WK Universal Unofficial Patch

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Multiplayer	GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	2000, XP, ME
Processor (CPU)	733 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	800 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (297570) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ 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

↑ Pricing | GameSpy Technology

[HKLM-1] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (297570) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (297570) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[gamedir-3] 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).

[4] Pricing | GameSpy Technology

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[Note 3]

[1]

Developers

	Black Cactus
Mac OS (Classic)	Zonic Limited
Publishers
Retail	Microïds
Retail (Mac OS)	Feral Interactive
Digital	Strategy First
Release dates
Windows	February 28, 2002
Mac OS (Classic)	August 25, 2003
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
Series	Warrior Kings