How to change language?

[Bruni]

Hello, good afternoon. I'm trying to change the language but I can't find anything... is there a solution? Thank you.

Im spanish.

[Talabarbe]

Hi Bruni!

[First] :
- Download the language pack provided by TheDeeGee on GOG.
https://www.gog.com/forum/populous_series/populous_the_beginning_language_pack

- Extract the "language" folder from the archive to your Populous 3 directory (".../steamapps/common/Populous 3").

- Overwrite the files.

[Second] :
- Open "notepad.exe".

- Go to your Populous 3 directory (".../steamapps/common/Populous 3").

- Drag and drop the "regs.cmd" file into the notepad window opened previously.

- At line 10 of the document, copy and paste the following line: "REG ADD %regpath% /v "Language" /t REG_DWORD /d x /f /reg:32"

- You need to replace "x" with the language code you want:
For English: 9
For Dutch: 19
For French: 1036
For German: 7
For Spanish: 10
For Swedish: 29
For Polish: 21

- Save changes.

And voilà, your game is in another language.

[R37ROG4M3R]

For German: 7 - Doesn't work, get a black screen ☹️

[Talabarbe]

Hi Revolverfuss!

Have you completed the first step correctly?

If you do the second one without it, it crashes because the build we got doesn't have the correct language files.

[Shaklin]

With the pack from GOG it works, but not as in the instructions.

How I did it:
Don't change anything in the regedit entries
Instead: take a *.dat from the rar file, rename it to lang00.dat and overwrite the original in the game language folder.

In the rar file the lang02.dat is e.g. for German