KnightShift

Polanie
Polanie	1996
KnightShift	2003

KnightShift is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RPG and RTS game in the Polanie series.

General information

Titled Once Upon a Knight in North America and Polanie II in Poland.

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Reality Pump DRM
GamersGate		Reality Pump DRM
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Steam		Prompts for product key (does not use online activation).^[2] OS X version uses Wineskin.
ZOOM Platform

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is 1.3, available from Patches-Scrolls.

Skip intro videos

Change setting in `config.exe`^[3]

Change registry settings^[4]
Go to `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame\Intro` Change the value of `ShowOnStart` from `1` to `0`

Skip credits

The game normally shows credits after the player chooses to exit the game.

Change registry settings^[4]
Go to `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame\Intro` Change the value of `ShowOnEnd` from `1` to `0`

Restore original music

The Steam and GOG releases use a different soundtrack than the original CD release. The original music can be downloaded from this Steam forum thread.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame^{[Note 1]} HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Players\^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings

External settings application

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretched from 4:3.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	Set in `config.exe`.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	In the Registry Editor, go to `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame\Graphics\Direct3D` and set `Antialiasing` line to a desired value.^{[citation needed]}
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	No frame rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound FX, Units speeches, Dialogs, Environment
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Polish
Russian				Retail release only. Patch for digital release is here

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8
Online play		8

Connection types

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

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D, Z3D Game requires d3d8to9 wrapper, see here.

Issues fixed

Game immediately opens configuration tool on execution

The configuration tool seems to use different methods of determining display information from the game, resulting in sometimes incompatible configurations that the game refuses to accept.

Certain resolutions may not be properly recognized by the game.

Adjust Registry to allow additional display modes^[5]
Go to `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame\Graphics\Setup`. Change `ShowAllRefreshRates` to `1`.

On systems with switchable graphics, the configuration tool may get an adapter name that is different from what the engine gets. This also causes the game to bail.

Adjust Registry to set proper graphics adapter name^{[citation needed]}

Open Device Manager:
- Vista and later: open the Start screen/Start menu, type devmgmt.msc and press ↵ Enter.
- Windows XP: press ⊞ Win+R, type devmgmt.msc and press ↵ Enter.
Expand Display adapters, and note the name of the dedicated graphics card.
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\KnightShift\BaseGame\Graphics\Default.
Edit Renderer with the graphics card name noted earlier.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	PPC	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)				The retail version is PowerPC only. The Steam 32-bit version is simply the Windows version with Wineskin.
Linux

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	700 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	800 MB	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	TnL support 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	256 MB of VRAM Shader model 2.0 support

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.12
Processor (CPU)	Single Core	2.0 GHz Multicore
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	2.1 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM	256 MB of VRAM Shader model 2.0 support

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 21.04
Processor (CPU)	Single Core	2.0 GHz Multicore
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	2.1 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM	256 MB of VRAM Shader model 2.0 support

Notes

↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more 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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

↑ Mac port available now! - Steam Community Announcements
↑ Verified by User:Garrett on 8 December 2014
↑ Verified by User:Plok on 2023-02-04
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Verified by User:User on 2019-08-02
↑ "Game not starts/ Can't play in 1080p" - Steam Community Discussion - last accessed on May 2023

[HKLM-5] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[gamedir-6] 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).

[mac-1] Mac port available now! - Steam Community Announcements

[2] Verified by User:Garrett on 8 December 2014

[3] Verified by User:Plok on 2023-02-04

[ExpackTest-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Verified by User:User on 2019-08-02

[7] "Game not starts/ Can't play in 1080p" - Steam Community Discussion - last accessed on May 2023

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Developers

	Reality Pump Studios
Publishers
	TopWare Interactive
Release dates
Windows	September 15, 2003
macOS (OS X)	2004
macOS (OS X) (Cider)	January 25, 2017^[1]
Linux	June 4, 2021
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RPG, RTS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Polanie