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Even with the file in place, the game engine must be instructed to look for the English assets. Press Win + R on your keyboard to open the Run dialog box. Type %appdata% and hit Enter. Navigate to the folder, then open Anno 1404 Venice .

While the game was officially released in English, dedicated players found that the original English version had a number of persistent bugs and issues. The official patches were somewhat limited. The final official update for the Venice expansion was version 2.1, released in December 2010. This left many textual errors, grammar issues, untranslated content, and quest-breaking bugs unaddressed.

If you own the game on , GOG , or Ubisoft Connect , manual file swapping is usually unnecessary for the official versions. Right-click the game in your library. Select Properties > Language and toggle it to English.

The installation package defaults to German (the developers' native language) because of a registry mismatch.

If you own the game on Steam, GOG, or Ubisoft Connect, do not use third-party download links, which can contain malware. instead, force the launcher to download the correct files: