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Catan: Die Erste Insel

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Catan: Die Erste Insel
Catan: Die Erste Insel cover
Developers
Funatics Software
Publishers
Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH
Release dates
Windows 1999
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Board
Art styles Cartoon
Series The Settlers of Catan
Catan: Die Erste Insel on MobyGames
The Settlers of Catan
Catan: Die Erste Insel 1999
Die Sternenfahrer von Catan 2000
Catan: Das Kartenspiel 2001
Sternenschiff Catan: Das Strategische Weltraumabenteuer 2003
Catan: Creator's Edition 2013
Catan Universe 2017
Catan VR 2018

Warnings

This game is not playable in English (see Localizations for supported languages).

Catan: Die Erste Insel is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view board game in the The Settlers of Catan series.

Key points

Also known as De Kolonisten van Catan in Belgium and The Netherlands.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
ProtectDISC Software DRM
Windows

Version differences

A different release known as the Navigo Classics edition exists. That version shows patch level 1.65 and includes improved support for Windows XP.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch for the original version is 1.63.
No patch to 1.65 exists for the original version.[1]

Skip intro videos

Turn the intro off[2]
  1. Deactivate "Intro" in the options menu.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVE_C[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVE_C[Note 1]

Video

Video Settings.
Video Settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 800x600 & 1024x768.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
The game supports 3 different zoom levels.
Windowed
Use the -window command line argument.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Hardware mouse can be selected.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio Settings.
Audio Settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX & Speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Characters have speech bubbles. No subtitles in cutscenes.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
German

Issues fixed

Terrible performance and mouse issues

Instructions[2]
  1. Disable the NVIDIA In-Game Overlay or use a DirectDraw wrapper like DgVoodoo 2.

The game crashes while starting a map or when throwing the dice

This issue will most likely occur on modern systems when using the original version.
Instructions[2]
  1. Make sure the game is patched to 1.63 when using the original version. That patch adds several command line arguments.
  2. Using window mode (via the -window command line argument) usually solves the map loading crash.
  3. If the game still crashes, it is most likely related to the sound in videos causing an error. Even throwing the dice plays a little video and can cause a crash. If that happens, use the -window and -novideosound command line arguments.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
6
LAN play
6
Online play
6 The CATAN server has been shut down.

Connection types

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 5.0r[3]
Cutscenes Smacker
Multiplayer DirectPlay 1.64 (1.65 in the Navigo Classics version)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 160 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX compatible.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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

  1. www.siedeln.de Topic
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Verified by User:Nessy on 2019-11-16
  3. Verified by User:Nessy on 2019-11-16
    Version number found in Mss32.dll in the game installation folder.