Star Wolves 3: Civil War

Star Wolves
Star Wolves	2004
Star Wolves 2	2006
Star Wolves 3: Civil War	2009

Star Wolves 3: Civil War is a singleplayer third-person RPG and strategy game in the Star Wolves series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Wiki

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 7 DRM
GamersGate

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Steam
ZOOM Platform

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files^[1]
Go to `<path-to-game>\Data\Video`. Delete or rename `1CLOGO.bik`, `EGT_logo.bik`, and `SW3_CW_logo.bik`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Main.ini^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\default.cfg^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\Profiles\\.cfg^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\Profiles\*\profile.info^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46260/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Profiles\*\Save\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46260/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

System settings.

Additional settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		In `<path-to-game>\Main.ini`, change `FOV = 90` to the desired value.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)		In `<path-to-game>\Main.ini`, change `SyncVRefresh = 0` to `SyncVRefresh = 1`.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Increase draw distance

Edit configuration file

Edit <path-to-game>\Main.ini.
Go to [GRAPH] section and increase the ZFarPlane value.

The game also has transparency parameters: ZTranspar and ZTransparLength; the objects become transparent when the distance of the camera is longer than ZTranspar.^[2]

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz 2.0 GHz Single Core AMD	Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz 2.8 GHz Single Core AMD
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible	Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 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).
↑ ^2.0 ^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>/46260/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (46260) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-09
↑ Steam Community - last accessed on 28 May 2023

[gamedir-2] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 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).

[Proton_path_note-3] 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>/46260/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (46260) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-09

[4] Steam Community - last accessed on 28 May 2023

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Developers

	Elite Games Team
Publishers
2009-2018	1C Company
2018-2022	1C Entertainment
2022-present	Fulqrum Publishing
Release dates
Windows	May 15, 2009
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Genres	RPG, Strategy
Vehicles	Space flight
Themes	Sci-fi, Space
Series	Star Wolves