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Children of the Nile

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Children of the Nile
Children of the Nile cover
Developers
Tilted Mill Entertainment
Publishers
Retail (North America) Myelin Media
Retail (Europe) Sega
Retail (Russia) 1C-SoftClub
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Digital Tilted Mill Entertainment
Engines
Titan 2.0
Release dates
Windows November 8, 2004
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building
Themes Egypt, Classical
Series City Building (Sierra)
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Children of the Nile on MobyGames
Children of the Nile on Wikipedia
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Children of the Nile is a singleplayer bird's-eye view building game in the City Building (Sierra) series.

General information

Originally released as Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile
Official forum
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM V4 DRM on Standard Edition, SecuROM V7 DRM on Enhanced Edition.
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Enhanced Edition
Windows
GamersGate
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Enhanced Edition. Pack with Alexandria also available.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Enhanced Edition + Alexandria
Windows
Steam
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Enhanced Edition
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Alexandria
Windows
Free demo versions are available from GameFront: original version, Enhanced Edition.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Alexandria
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Enhanced Edition Patch (v1.3)

This patch has already been applied to all digital releases of the game

A massive overhaul to the game, it adds modern Windows support, new buildings, and a variety of gameplay tweaks and bug fixes.

It can be downloaded from here.

Modifications

Wolfie's Transparent HUD
Texture Overhaul Project
More mods are available at Children of the Nile Heaven

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Tilted Mill\Children of the Nile\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/17100/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Tilted Mill\Children of the Nile\Saved Games\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/17100/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Main menu restricted to 800x600; see the WSGF topic.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF topic.
4K Ultra HD
See the WSGF topic.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use borderless gaming. Main menu will be stuck to the upper left corner however the rest of the game works and covers the full screen fine.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Editing CotN.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Tilted Mill\Children of the Nile.
  2. Open CotN.ini.
  3. Change Full Screen Mode from 1 to 0.
  4. Save changes.

Input

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Can be toggled on/off
Controller
Controller support

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, sound and speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Russian
Official localization by "Soft-club". Local retail only. Patch for digital version
Spanish

Issues fixed

Main menu restricted to 800x600

Due to the menu being locked at 800x600, this may result in the incorrect frequency being chosen by some displays (mainly TVs).
Fix menu resolution[citation needed]
  1. Download the custom CotN.exe file from here.
  2. Extract the desired CotN.exe to <path-to-game> and overwrite the original CotN.exe.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0b
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
AMD Athlon 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.1 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/17100/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (17100) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References