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Revision as of 04:48, 1 June 2016

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Return to Castle Wolfenstein cover
Developers
Gray Matter Interactive
id Software
Multiplayer Nerve Software
Splash Damage
Publishers
Activision
Mac OS Aspyr Media
Engines
id Tech 3
Release dates
Windows November 19, 2001
Linux March 16, 2002
Mac OS (Classic) April 2002
macOS (OS X) April 2002
Return to Castle Wolfenstein on Wikipedia
Castle Wolfenstein 1981
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein 1984
Wolfenstein 3D 1992
Spear of Destiny 1992
Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2001
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 2003
Wolfenstein 2009
Wolfram (unofficial game) 2012
Wolfenstein: The New Order 2014
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood 2015
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 2017
Wolfenstein: Youngblood 2019
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot 2019
RealRTCW (unofficial mod) 2020

Key points

Master servers for the multiplayer were shut down in February 2012. A mod S4NDMoD solves this problem, by making a game use fans' master server.

General information

Official Wolfenstein series site
Wolfenstein Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Wolfenstein game made.
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Mac OS
Amazon.com
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Windows
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Not available for purchase in Germany.[1]
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Unofficial Patch

A patch by Knightmare[2] that fixes various crashes and adds native widescreen support.

S4NDMoD

A mod that focuses on fixing exploits and adding necessary features to RTCW multiplayer. A list of features can be found here. Due to master server being down, this mod is the best solution to make server browser work, again. Mod can be downloaded, here.

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

In-game HUD settings.
In-game HUD settings.

Configuration file(s) location

wolfconfig.cfg contains single player settings.
wolfconfig_mp.cfg contains multiplayer settings.

Save game data location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

The Unofficial Patch should already add support for common resolutions in the in-game options.
Instructions
Instructions

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions
Instructions
Instructions

Frame rate (FPS)

Instructions

Input settings

In-game general control settings.
In-game general control settings.

Template:Input settings

Toggle crouch

Instructions

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Can play coop with RTCWCoop.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Use connect [IP address here] in the console.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 28960
UDP 27960
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Enlarged Upper Left Corner of Screen

Increasing the game resolution above 800x600 causes the upper left corner of the game to take up the entire screen. One reason is that game detects a 3dfx driver (possibly caused by nGlide).

Instructions

Frame Rate Drops On Modern Machines

Return to castle wolfenstein is not coded/optimized to run on modern multi-core cpus, resulting in framerate drops on some modern machines.

Instructions
Instructions

Other information

Disable view bob

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 OSR2
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon
Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.1 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
OpenGL compatible
DirectX 8.0a compatible
Supported chipsets: 3dfx Voodoo 3 or higher, ATI Rage 128/128 Pro, ATI Radeon, Matrox G400, Nvidia Riva TNT and TNT2, all Nvidia GeForce chips

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>/9010/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (9010) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References