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Revision as of 04:22, 13 July 2022

Prisoner of War: World War II
Prisoner of War: World War II cover
Developers
Wide Games
Publishers
Codemasters
Release dates
Windows 2002
Reception
Metacritic 64
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Stealth
Art styles Realistic
Themes World War II
Prisoner of War: World War II on MobyGames
Prisoner of War: World War II on Wikipedia

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Prisoner of War: World War II is a singleplayer third-person stealth game.

Warnings

Capped at 32 FPS.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\options.wiv[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 2]

Video

Video Settings
Video Settings
Settings in-game.
Settings in-game.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only supports 4:3 resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Only supports 4:3 resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
Only supports 4:3 resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Use dgvoodoo2
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use dgvoodoo2
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Use dgvoodoo2
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Use dgvoodoo2
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Use dgvoodoo2
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 32 FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Widescreen resolution

Set custom resolution[citation needed]
  1. Add command line "-res:x,y" (without quotes) to the games shortcut.
  2. For example: Colditz.exe -res:1920,1080

Notes

Lower vertical FOV in widescreen. For the solution, check this page.
Minimap goes slightly out of the radar zone.

Input

Control Settings
Control Settings
Settings in-game.
Settings in-game.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Can't be disabled
Mouse sensitivity
Resets after game restart
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Sound Settings
Sound Settings
Settings in-game.
Settings in-game.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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