Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon
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| Developers | |
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| Revolution Software | |
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| THQ | |
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| RenderWare | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | November 17, 2003 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 82 |
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| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Genres | Adventure |
| Series | Broken Sword |
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General information
- Developer Discord server
- Broken Sword Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
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SecuROM DRM. | |
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| GOG.com | |
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| Humble Store | |
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| Green Man Gaming (unavailable) | |
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Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
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Press the enter key to skip directly to the title screen. |
| Delete/rename video file[citation needed] |
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Delete the file |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- Settings can be saved only if game is running with admin rights.
| System | Location |
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| Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Revolution\BSTSD\[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33610/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\saves\[Note 3] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33610/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video
In-game video settings.
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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| Widescreen resolution | 4:3 stretched. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | Game fails to start. | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | Resolution is available, but stretched. | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Input
In-game input settings.
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | Three presets for movement; other keys can be rebound | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
In-game audio settings.
In-game subtitle settings.
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Music, Sound Effects and Speech. | |
| Surround sound | 5.1 | |
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Hungarian | Fan translation. | |||
| Italian | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Russian | Official localization by "1C". Local retail release only. Patch for digital version. | |||
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VR support
| 3D modes | State | Notes | |
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| vorpX | G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum. |
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Issues Fixed
Vsync doesn't work on Windows 10
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 8 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 98 Vista, 7, 8, 10 (Steam) | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 750 MHz | Intel Pentium III 1.2 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB 1 GB (Steam) | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 2 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 |
Notes
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAREwill be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details. - ↑ 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>/33610/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (33610) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details. - ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).