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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield cover
Developers
Red Storm Entertainment
Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers
Ubisoft
OS X Aspyr Media
Engines
Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows March 18, 2003
macOS (OS X) December 19, 2003
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield guide on StrategyWiki
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield on Wikipedia

Warnings

The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
Subseries of Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six 1998
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear 1999
Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials 2000
Rainbow Six: Take-Down 2001
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn 2001
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield 2003
Rainbow Six: Lockdown 2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 2008
Rainbow Six Siege 2015
Rainbow Six Extraction 2022

Key points

The official multiplayer service is no longer available,[1] see this thread or RVSGaming for a solution.

General information

ALLR6 All Rainbow Six Community
HOW TO PLAY ONLINE 2017+
Ubisoft game page
Official Forum
Rainbow Six Wiki
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Physical copy
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Gold Edition
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Gold Edition
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Gold Edition comes with the base game and the Athena Sword expansion

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Iron Wrath US version
UK version
Windows

Essential improvements

Multiplayer

How to play online

Install Iron Wrath on a non-US/UK version

Edit RavenShield.ini
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\system\RavenShield.ini\
  2. Find the following line, and set it to this value.
[Engine.Engine]
Language=int
  1. Install Iron Wrath.
  2. You can now restore the previous state of your file.

Skip intro videos

Raven Shield[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Videos\
  2. Move, delete or rename the following files.
Videos\Logos.bik
Videos\int\RS_Intro.bik

Notes

The Logos.bik file is also used for the Athena Sword expansion.
Athena Sword[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Mods\AthenaSword\Videos\int\
  2. Move, delete or rename the following file.
Videos\int\RS_Intro.bik

Patches

Latest version for the vanilla game is 1.60. Patch for different regions can be found here. If your region isn't in the previous folder (like Czech, Polish and Japanese editions) check here.
If you have the Athena Sword DLC, then look here and choose the right version for your game. For other languages check here again.

Game data

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

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\system\*.ini[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19830/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19830/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

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Windowed

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open RavenShield.ini.
  3. Find the following line, and set it to this value.
StartupFullscreen=False

Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

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Mouse smoothing

Edit User.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Save\Profiles
  2. Edit User.ini (make sure you have run the game at least once)
[Engine.PlayerInput]
MouseSmoothingMode=0

Mouse sensitivity

Edit User.ini[citation needed]
  1. Calculate your sensitivity for UT2004 on mouse-sensitivity.com
  2. Go to <path-to-game>\Save\Profiles
  3. Edit User.ini (make sure you have run the game at least once)
[Engine.Input]
W=MoveForward | setsensitivity 0.123456

Audio settings

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

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French

Network

In-game multiplayer settings.
In-game multiplayer settings.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
16
Online play
16 Official online functionalities have been discontinued on the September 24, 2016

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 80, 6667, 7777-7787, 8777-8787, 40000-42000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Screen flickering

Custom DLL[citation needed]
  1. Download the following archive.
  2. Go to <path-to-game>\system\ and extract the files.
Windowed Mode[citation needed]
  1. See Windowed.
  2. Run the game, then deploy a squad in any in-game mission.
  3. See Borderless Gaming.

Notes

Avoid setting the game into a borderless mode while in any menus or they'll otherwise break.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
OpenGL
OS X only.
Shader Model support 1.4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Karma
Audio OpenAL
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer PunkBuster, Ubi.com

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
AMD Athlon 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB (Windows 98, ME and 2000)
256 MB (Windows XP)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.2.6
Processor (CPU) 733 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]
  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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/19830/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (19830) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References