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Army Ranger: Mogadishu

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Army Ranger: Mogadishu
Army Ranger: Mogadishu cover
Developers
Jarhead Games
Publishers
North America Groove Games
Germany City Interactive
Russia 1C Company
Engines
Lithtech Jupiter
Release dates
Windows June 14, 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Africa, Contemporary
Series Terrorist Takedown
Army Ranger: Mogadishu on HowLongToBeat
Army Ranger: Mogadishu on IGDB
Army Ranger: Mogadishu on MobyGames
Terrorist Takedown
Terrorist Takedown 2004
Terrorist Takedown: Payback 2005
Terrorist Takedown: Conflict in Mogadishu 2005
Terrorist Takedown: War in Colombia 2006
Terrorist Takedown: Covert Operations 2006
Terrorist Takedown 2 2007
Terrorist Takedown 3 2010

Army Ranger: Mogadishu is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS, shooter and tactical shooter game in the Terrorist Takedown series.

It is also known as Terrorist Takedown: Conflict in Mogadishu in Europe.

General information

Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from April 21, 2006.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\display.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Profiles\[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\Save\[Note 1]

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Widescreen resolution

Set video mode via configuration file
  1. Open <path-to-game>\display.cfg.
  2. Change screenwidth and screenheight to the desired resolution.
  3. Open <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg and add the line pvmodelaspect (refers to the player viewmodel's aspect ratio) and change it to:
    • 1.6 for 16:10
    • 1.6666 for 15:9
    • 1.7777 for 16:9
    • 3.5555 for 32:9
    • 5.3333 for 48:9

Notes

Widescreen resolutions cannot be set in-game. It must be done through the configuration file.
Non-4:3 resolutions are stretched. To fix it, see Field of view (FOV).
Many menu elements will be out of place or hidden in very high or wide resolutions.

Field of view (FOV)

Change Field of View[1]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg.
  2. Add the following three lines: FovX for horizontal FOV, FovY for vertical FOV, FovXInterface for the menu's horizontal FOV, and change the line pvmodelfov for the player's viewmodel FOV, and change the values to:

  3. Aspect ratioFovXFovYFovXInterfacepvmodelfov
    4:390.078.090.045
    16:10100.078.0100.045
    15:9101.578.0101.545
    16:9106.2678.0106.2645
    32:9138.8978.0138.8945
    48:9151.9378.0151.9345

  4. Here is an example for 16:9:
  5. "FovX" "106.26"
    "FovY" "78"
    "FovXInterface" "106.26"
    "pvmodelfov" "45"
    

Notes

To fix the cutscenes FOV at 16:9 resolutions, use this fix.

Windowed

Start Lithtech.exe with -windowtitle "Army Ranger: Mogadishu" -rez Game.rez +windowed 1 parameters[2]
Set in autoexec.cfg
  1. Open <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg.
  2. Add the line "Windowed" "1".

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Uncontrollable mouse movement

Mouse moves in wavelike pattern when attempting y-axis movement.
Decrease mouse polling rate to 125 Hz

Vsync broken on Windows 10

Use dgVoodoo 2
Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper
  1. Download d3d8.dll from here.
  2. Place it in <path-to-game>.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III - 750 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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

  1. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-22
  2. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-21