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Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

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Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down cover
Developers
NovaLogic
Expansion Ritual Entertainment
Publishers
2003-2016 NovaLogic
2016-present THQ Nordic
Engines
Black Hawk Engine
Release dates
Windows March 24, 2003
macOS (OS X) July 2004
Reception
Metacritic 77
IGDB 68
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Africa, Contemporary
Series Delta Force
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down on HowLongToBeat
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down on IGDB
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down on MobyGames
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down on Wikipedia
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Delta Force: Black Hawk Down is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS, shooter and tactical shooter game in the Delta Force series.

Master servers were shut down. Playing multiplayer is now only possible using GOG.com version, GameRanger or Novaworld.cc.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SecuROM 4 DRM.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Platinum Pack (No included soundtrack CD files)
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
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Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows

Version differences

  • The Gold Pack includes the base game and the Team Sabre expansion pack.
  • The Platinum Pack includes the base game, the Team Sabre expansion pack, their respective strategy guides by Prima, and the soundtrack CD.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Team Sabre
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\dfv.cfg[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32670/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\dfvplr.sav[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32670/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Set the resolution with dgVoodoo2
Field of view (FOV)
Use this CheatEngine table.
Windowed
Launch the game with /w parameter. Resolution of 640x480 and Windowed mode can make the game unplayable.[1]
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Setting might be disabled (force in the graphics card control panel).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Main menu capped at 65 FPS.

Widescreen resolution

The game natively supports only 4:3 resolutions. It's possible to get the game running in widescreen mode by editing bytes directly in exe file.
Modify and use UniWS[2]
  1. Launch the game and let it test the display.
  2. Quit the game.
  3. Download and extract UniWS.
  4. Edit patches.ini.
  5. Replace its content with:
  6. THE INI IS BELOW 
    [Apps] 
    version=1.03 
    
    a0=Delta Force Black Hawk Down / Delta Force Black Hawk Down - Team Sabre
    
    [Delta Force Black Hawk Down / Delta Force Black Hawk Down - Team Sabre] 
    details=Requires 1.5.0.5 version.
    checkfile=dfbhd.exe
    modfile=dfbhd.exe
    undofile=dfbhd.backup
    sig=EB42BF00040000BE00030000EB36BF
    sigwild=0000000000000 
    xoffset=3 
    yoffset=8 
    occur=1
  7. Save changes and run uniws.exe.
  8. Go to the installation folder or use the Find it for me... button.
  9. Type in your desired resolution and click Patch.
  10. Launch the game and choose 1024x768 resolution.

Notes

This hack works with both base game as well as expansion pack.
Image is Vert-.
Menus, FMVs and most of HUD elements are stretched.
Only 2 out of 3 messages fit the chat space after applying the hack.
Does not work with the Steam version of the game (replacing dfbhd.exe with the GOG version solves this problem).

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Up to 5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Does not pause on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Released by FX Interactive
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Released by Cenega
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Barely a few voice lines are not translated
Swedish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
50 Versus, Co-op
For co-op, use Anaconda's Server Manager.
Online play
64 Versus, Co-op
The official multiplayer service was shut down; use the NovaHQ lobby (already applied to the GOG.com version).

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Run the game with the /serveonly parameter.[3]
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Can not recover password/account details (bug: emails not being sent)

In 2008, Novalogic updated their website. This caused few minor glitches on DFBHD websites that in-game browser is using.

Use Novaworld Community Beta website[citation needed]
  1. Go to the lost password form.
  2. Enter the email address of the Novaworld account.

Issues unresolved

Anti-aliasing option is disabled

On some configurations, option for full screen anti-aliasing is disabled. There is no known fix for it. Only alternative is forcing different AA settings from graphics card control panel.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Shader Model support 1.1, 1.3
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink
Multiplayer NovaWorld

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 733 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 860 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia TNT2
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
The Team Sabre expansion pack increases the HDD requirements to 1.4 GB
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.2.6
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 74xx
PowerPC G4
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D accelerator
32 MB of VRAM
Other 2x DVD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/32670/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (32670) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Stealthradon on 8 June 2014
    The world spins around the player at very high speeds
  2. Delta Force: Black Hawk Down | WSGF - last accessed on 2017-04-10
  3. Novahq.net Forum - View Single Post - bhd dedicated server - last accessed on May 2023