Bam, it’s running in widescreen-with a couple drawbacks. Then go into the game’s graphics settings and select your newly enabled resolution. Download it, point it to your Prince of Persia directory, and tell it what resolution you want to run the game in, like 2560x1440 or 1920x1080. Sands of Time is also limited to 4:3 resolutions by default, but that’s changeable with the handy Universal Widescreen Patcher. Sands of Time crashes when it’s set to render to any resolution I tested beyond 2560x1440, so 4K downsampling remained out of reach. Play it in high resolutionīecause Sands of Time supports DirectX9, I was hoping to use Durante’s GeDoSaTo to push the game up to 4K resolution or beyond. The game runs fine on modern Windows unfortunately, playing it at higher resolutions requires a bit more work. Installing it from either service is easy and doesn’t require any special procedures. You can grab Sands of Time on GOG for $10 or on Steam for $10. In this week’s Pixel Boost, we take Sands of Time up to 2560x1440. Sands of Time is just as fun today as it was a decade ago, but to get it running at a modern resolution, you’ll need to do a little tweaking. It’s easy to trace the platforming in Assassin’s Creed back to Ubisoft’s work in Prince of Persia.
14 years later, Sands of Time defined platforming for a new generation of 3D games and balanced challenging puzzles and environments with the Dagger of Time’s rewind ability. The original Prince used rotoscoping to push forward 2D animation.
Has there ever been a better franchise reboot than Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? Ubisoft took a groundbreaking PC game in the original Prince of Persia (first released on the Apple II in 1989, eventually ported to every platform imaginable), brought back original creator Jordan Mechner, and made something groundbreaking all over again.