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Nuclear Strike

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Nuclear Strike
Nuclear Strike cover
Developers
Electronic Arts
Windows Tiburon Entertainment
Release dates
Windows November 1, 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control
Genres Vehicle combat
Vehicles Helicopter
Series Strike
Nuclear Strike on MobyGames
Nuclear Strike on Wikipedia
Strike
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf 1992
Jungle Strike 1993
Nuclear Strike 1997

Nuclear Strike is a singleplayer bird's-eye view vehicle combat game in the Strike series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
A free demo is available here.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch v1.3 is the latest patch available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

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

Video

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

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use nGlide.[citation needed]
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

In-game keyboard settings.
In-game keyboard settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
In-game gamepad settings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game 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
German

Issues unresolved

Cursor "melts" screen

The only "solution" available is to hide the cursor off-screen and use the arrow keys to navigate.

Game crashes when selecting the mouse options menu

Random crashes on menu

Missing sounds

Issues fixed

Game crashes on startup

Use nGlide[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5
Glide 2.42
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 115 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5 compatible


Notes

  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).

References