King's Bounty: the Legend (new, 2008)

What works

Everything.

To be more precise:

• Downloading the game from steam client;
• Launching the game from steam client games library;
• Playing the game smoothly with all graphics settings maxed;

What does not

Game is unstable without native msvcrt.dll from VC++ 6.0 runtime. Crash usually happens right after "loading" screen when entering "battle mode", but it is not a strict rule. With native dll override (use "winetricks vcrun6sp6" or "winetricks vcrun6") game works perfectly, had played it straight for ~12 hours without an issue.

Game requires native DirectX 9 helper DLLs to start. Actual DLL required is d3dx9_33.dll, but there are issues with some shaders (some water surfaces namely) when using this one. Installing native d3dx9_36.dll does the trick - most of the time game works perfectly. There still might be problems with shaders sometimes but it is usually enough to save at the problematic place, then exit the game, start it up again and load the save. From that moment on there wouldn't be any troubles with shaders until you exit the game.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything was tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Game was tested on computer with following specs: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor @3.2GHz, 6GB DDR2 RAM, GeForce GTS-250 (a.k.a. 9800 a.k.a. 8800) GPU with 1GB VRAM. nVIDIA Binary Driver v.280.13