Eternal War: Shadows of Light

Eternal War: Shadows of Light

Developers
	Two Guys Software
Publishers
	Two Guys Software
Engines
	Quake engine
Release dates
Windows	December 11, 2002
Taxonomy
Monetization	Freeware
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter, Survival horror, TPS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Fantasy, Medieval, Zombies

Eternal War: Shadows of Light is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person action, FPS, shooter, survival horror and TPS game.

It was originally released commercially on December 11, 2002, and later re-released as freeware on November 2, 2008.

General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Official website

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\ew\*.cfg

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\ew\*.sav

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		90° by default. See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Use D3DWindower.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Run the game with -width 1920 -height 1080 -bpp 32 parameter (Change the values if needed)
Notes Lower vertical FOV at wider aspect ratios (Vert-). Increase FOV to compensate, see Field of view (FOV). Text and HUD items become very small and unreadable at high resolutions, like 1080p and above. To fix it, see Small HUD at high resolutions.

Field of view (FOV)

To maintain identical vertical FOV to the 4:3 FOV at 16:9 resolutions, use 106.

Use the console
Open the console with ~. Type in fov x where x is your horizontal FOV value. Notes The value isn't maintained after a game restart, edit autoexec.cfg for that.

Edit autoexec.cfg
Open autoexec.cfg inside <path-to-game>/ew/. Below the following section, put fov "x" (replace x with your preferred horizontal FOV): //execute console commands stuffcmds

Run the game with +fov x parameter (Change x with the prefered horizontal FOV value).

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8	Co-op, Versus
Online play		8	Co-op, Versus

Connection types

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

Issues fixed

Fog is being rendered at too low of a distance

Use fog fix
Download the fog fix and extract it. Move ew to <path-to-game>, overwriting the original fog.txt files.

Mouse stuttering/skipping

Download RInput

Extract RInput.dll and RInput.exe to any location (can be inside the game folder where the game executable is). Create a shortcut to RInput.exe. Right-click the newly created shortcut, go to Properties, and in the Target field, add a space followed by EternalWar-HQ.exe (e.g. "...\RInput 1.44\RInput.exe" EternalWar-HQ.exe). Run the shortcut before or during the game (Note that the executable name is case-sensitive).

Small HUD at high resolutions

Run the game with -conwidth 1280 -conheight 720 parameter (Change the values if needed).

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz	Intel Pentium 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	150 MB