Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

Developers   Relic Entertainment OS X Aspyr Media

Publishers   THQ   Sega

Engines   Essence Engine

Release dates Windows April 9, 2009 OS X March 1, 2012

Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes	2006
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts	2007
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor	2009
Company of Heroes 2	2013
Company of Heroes 2 - The Western Front Armies	2014
Company of Heroes 2 - Ardennes Assault	2014

Key points

Online multiplayer for non-Steam versions stopped working on May 31, 2014 due to GameSpy services being shut down.

Steam version updates can potentially break mods.

General information

Official website

Company of Heroes Wiki

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Steam		Acts as DLC for the New Steam Version.
Retail		DRM: SecuROM disc check.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches for the game can be found here (Retail Only).

Skip splash screens

Launch the game with the -nomovies parameter

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows (Retail)	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes\*.(ini|lua|txt)
Windows (New Steam Version)	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes Relaunch\*.(ini|lua|txt)
OS X

Save game data location

	Location
Windows (Retail)	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes\Savegames
Windows (New Steam Version)	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes Relaunch\Savegames
OS X

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud		Syncs save games.

Video settings

In-game video settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Launch the game with the -window parameter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Works using usual borderless fullscreen methods. Tested using GameCompanion.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Launch the game with the -novsync parameter to disable Vsync.
High frame rate

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		Download Gridkeys
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8
Online play		8

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP (outbound)	6112, 30260, 9100

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium IV 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon XP	Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB 1 GB (Vista)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	9 GB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 1.1 support	Nvidia GeForce 6800 series 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 10 compatible

SSE capable processor required.

Supported ATI chipsets: Radeon 9500 series, Radeon 9600 series, Radeon 9700 series, Radeon 9800 series, Radeon X300 series, Radeon X550 series, Radeon X600 series, Radeon X700 series, Radeon X800 series, Radeon X1000 series, Radeon X1100 series, Radeon X1300 series, Radeon X1600 series, Radeon X1800 series, Radeon X1900 series, Radeon HD 2400 series, Radeon HD 2600 series, Radeon HD 2900 series

Supported Nvidia chipsets: GeForce3/Ti series, GeForce4/Ti (excluding the GeForce4MX series), GeForce FX 5700 series, GeForce FX 5800 series, GeForce FX 5900 series, GeForce 6200 series, GeForce 6600 series, GeForce 6800 series, GeForce 7300 series, GeForce 7600 series, GeForce 7800 series, GeForce 7900 series, GeForce 8400 series, GeForce 8500 series, GeForce 8600 series, GeForce 8700 series, GeForce 8800 series