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NetStorm - Islands At War

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NetStorm - Islands At War
NetStorm - Islands At War cover
Developers
Titanic Entertainment
Publishers
Activision
Release dates
Windows November 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Fantasy
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General information

NetstormHQ (fansite)

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

v10.62 Patch

Is the latest official patch.

v10.82 Unofficial Fan Patch

Makes the game playable on modern systems, supports high resolutions and revives online lobby.
Music and videos have to be copied from the retail copy of the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\d\options.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\d\options.cfg[Note 1]

Video

Settings.
Settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use the FanPatch.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Use the FanPatch.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use the FanPatch.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
72 fps lock.
120+ FPS
72 fps lock. Up to 144 with the FanPatch.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Use the FanPatch.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Use the FanPatch.
Mouse input in menus
Use the FanPatch.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects and music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
8
Online play
8 Official Activision servers were shut down in 2002. Use the FanPatch.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Sound Blaster
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90MHz
System memory (RAM) 24MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25MB
Video card (GPU) 256 Color (640 x 480) VLB or PCI video card with 1MB RAM


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).

References