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Arma: Cold War Assault

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Arma: Cold War Assault
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Developers
Bohemia Interactive
Publishers
Codemasters
Engines
Real Virtuality
Release dates
Windows June 22, 2001
Arma: Cold War Assault on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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Key points

Originally released as Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis.
Many bugs in the game may be game-breaking. It's highly recommended to use the latest version of the game.
Free upgrade from Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis to ARMA: Cold War Assault.
Not optimized to run on modern hardware. Highest video settings will cut your game performance.[1]
GameSpy online server browser has been shut down.[2] Use Master Server Browser.

General information

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Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
DRM: SafeDisc disc check.
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Steam
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ARMA: Cold War Assault doesn't include the Red Hammer expansion, which was developed by Codemasters.

Essential improvements

Universal patch

A patch that upgrades any retail version of Operation Flashpoint to ARMA: Cold War Assault can be downloaded here.

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Adding the Red Hammer campaign

If you have a retail copy of Red Hammer campaign, you can add it back to ARMA: Cold War Assault.
Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/65790/pfx/[Note 1]
User-specific settings are stored in <path-to-game>\Users\<user-id>\UserInfo.cfg

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/65790/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Widescreen resolution

While the game allows for choosing widescreen resolutions, a fix has to be applied in order to render image in proper aspect ratio.

Instructions
4:3 16:9 15:9 16:10 5:4 12:3
fovTop 0.75 0.75 0.8 0.75 0.8 0.75
fovLeft 1 1.333333 1.333333 1.2 1 3
uiTopLeftX 0 0.125 0.125 0.083333 0 0.333333
uiTopLeftY 0 0 0.033333 0 0.033333 0
uiBottomRightX 1 0.875 0.875 0.916667 1 0.666667
uiBottomRightY 1 1 0.966667 1 0.966667 1

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
In-game server browser doesn't work.[2] Use Master Server Browser.

Connection types

Issues fixed

Never use "Very high" terrain quality setting, nor exceed 1200-1300 visibility.[3]

Low server count

Instructions

Frequent crashes or out of memory errors

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon 600 MHz
Pentium II 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) Riva TNT, GeForce 256, GeForce 2
Rage 128, Radeon
16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Despite official system requirements, game does not use OpenAL

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/65790/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (65790) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References