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Anno 1701

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Anno 1701
Anno 1701 cover
Developers
Related Designs
Publishers
Retail Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software
Retail Deep Silver
Retail (North America) Aspyr Media
Re-releases, digital Ubisoft
Engines
RD3D
Release dates
Windows October 26, 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Strategy, Simulation
Art styles Realistic
Themes Historical, Fantasy
Series Anno
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Warnings

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

General information

Also released as 1701 A.D in North America.
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Ubisoft Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
 English copies use TAGES DRM, Russian copies use StarForce 4 DRM[Note 1] and Chinese copies use SecuROM 7 DRM.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Includes the "Sunken Dragon" expansion.
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
A free demo is available here.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Sunken Dragon
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.02 is available from Ubisoft's patch repository and Patches-Scrolls.
A 1.04 hotfix exists for the American, German and Hungarian releases.
Updated Tages DRM drivers are available here, to be applied after updating the game itself.

Skip intro videos

Download intro skip file[citation needed]
  1. Download the Anno 1701 intro skip.
  2. Extract data11.rda from the zip file to <path-to-game>.
  3. Run the game.

Game data

Interface and Camera settings.
Interface and Camera settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Virtual Store\Program Files (x86)\Aspyr\1701 AD\Engine.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7870/pfx/[Note 2]
  1. For the GOG version, profile data and keybindings are stored under <path-to-game>\Profiles\

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegames\[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7870/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
Multi-monitor
 
Ultra-widescreen
 
4K Ultra HD
 
 Interface scales properly.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No FPS or refresh rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Edit Engine.ini
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit Engine.ini.
  3. Change <ScreenFormat>0</ScreenFormat> to <ScreenFormat>1</ScreenFormat>.
  4. Save your changes and close the file.

Input

Keybinding menu.
Keybinding menu.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Camera scroll speed slider, but not mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Sound Options.
Sound Options.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, music, speech, sound effects, unit, environment and news sliders.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Only in fullscreen mode or when minimised in windowed mode.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Local retail version only.
French
German
Hungarian
Local retail version only.
Polish
Local retail version only.
Russian
Local retail version only.
Spanish
Local retail version only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4 Cannot be played with 1 CD key
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile, see vorpx forum for additinal hints.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP
Processor (CPU) 2.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or similar 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or similar
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 1.1 support		 256 MB of VRAM
Shader model 2.0 support


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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>/7870/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (7870) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  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).

References