Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
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Developers | |
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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 |
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.
⤏ Go to series page | |
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 |
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Retail | SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]. | |||
Amazon.com | Physical copy | |||
Steam | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Gold Edition | |||
Ubisoft Store | Gold Edition |
- 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 | |
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword | ||
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Iron Wrath | US version UK version |
Essential improvements
Multiplayer
Install Iron Wrath on a non-US/UK version
Edit RavenShield.ini |
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[Engine.Engine] Language=int
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Skip intro videos
Raven Shield[citation needed] |
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Videos\Logos.bik Videos\int\RS_Intro.bik Notes
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Athena Sword[citation needed] |
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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
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\system\*.ini[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19830/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/19830/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud | ||
Ubisoft Connect |
Video settings
Windowed
Instructions[citation needed] |
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StartupFullscreen=False |
Input settings
Mouse smoothing
Edit User.ini[citation needed] |
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[Engine.PlayerInput] MouseSmoothingMode=0 |
Mouse sensitivity
Edit User.ini[citation needed] |
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[Engine.Input] W=MoveForward | setsensitivity 0.123456 |
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | ||||
LAN play | 16 | |||
Online play | 16 | Official online functionalities have been discontinued on the September 24, 2016 |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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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] |
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Windowed Mode[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8.1 | |
OpenGL | OS X only. | |
Shader Model support | 1.4 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | Karma | |
Audio | OpenAL | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video | |
Multiplayer | PunkBuster, Ubi.com |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 800 MHz AMD Athlon 800 MHz |
Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB (Windows 98, ME and 2000) 256 MB (Windows XP) |
512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.2.6 | 10.2.6 |
Processor (CPU) | 733 MHz | Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ 2.0 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). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (19830) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Discontinued Online Multiplayer Server List - Ubisoft Support
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16