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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers
Ubisoft
OS X Aspyr Media
Engines
Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows February 19, 2003
macOS (OS X) September 29, 2004
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell guide on StrategyWiki
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 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.
Splinter Cell
Subseries of Tom Clancy
Splinter Cell 2003
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow 2004
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory 2005
Splinter Cell: Double Agent 2006
Splinter Cell: Conviction 2010
Splinter Cell: Blacklist 2013

General information

Official Forums
Splinter Cell Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
The game was redeemable for free during the month of July 2016 and from December 15–18 on Uplay, but is otherwise not available on Uplay.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch is 1.3. Digital distribution versions are already patched.

HD Textures from the PS3 version

Instructions

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13560/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13560/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

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

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Field of view (FOV)

Don't combine both fixes below or your FOV will be too wide
Instructions
Instructions

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Instructions

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Instructions

Input settings

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

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Audio settings

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

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Italian
Russian

Issues fixed

Broken shadows

Due to relying on now-obsolete functionality in NVIDIA GPUs, the default "buffer" shadows are broken on modern hardware.

Force projector shadows

The game, when tweaked, supports projection shadows, which work on modern hardware.
Instructions
Instructions

Use dgVoodoo2 with default buffer shadows

Instructions

Stuttering during gameplay

Instructions

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Dolby Digital
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
AMD Athlon 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1b compatible
Supported ATI chipsets: Radeon 7500, 8500, 9000, 9500, 9700
Supported Nvidia chipsets: GeForce 256, GeForce2 Ti/Ultra/Pro/GTS/MX400/MX, GeForce3 series, GeForce4 series
The Matrox Parhelia is also supported

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 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>/13560/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (13560) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References