Red Faction: Armageddon

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Red Faction: Armageddon
RedFactionArmageddonCover.jpg
Developers
Publishers
 
Engines
Release dates
Windows
June 7, 2011
Red Faction: Armageddon at Steam Charts
Red Faction: Armageddon at SteamDB
 Red Faction: Armageddon at Wikipedia
Red Faction
Red Faction 2001
Red Faction II 2003
Red Faction: Guerrilla 2009
Red Faction: Armageddon 2011

Key points

Disadvantage Has issues running on AMD/ATI systems, sometimes causing BSOD.
Disadvantage Not working properly from RAM Disk. Loading level usually fails and falls back to main menu.

General information

More information Red Faction Wiki - A wiki for the Red Faction universe
More information Steam Community Discussions
More information Steam Users' Forums

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Humble Store Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg Sold together with other games from series.
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Information All versions require Steam.

Game data[edit]

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\55110\remote
Disadvantage Configuration file is encrypted.

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\55110\remote

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Native
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

In-game video settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Native WSGF WS Silver.svg
Multi-monitor Hackable WSGF MM Silver.svg See Multi-monitor.
Field of view (FOV) Hackable See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed Native
Borderless fullscreen windowed Impossible
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Native
Anti-aliasing (AA) Native
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
High frame rate Native No frame rate or refresh rate cap.[1]

Field of view (FOV)[edit]

Information Playing online with this fix may trigger a VAC ban[citation needed]

Fix FoV fix[2]

Information This fix will only work while controlling your character in non-vehicle and non-exo suit mode.
Information This game is using vertical FoV values. See FoV Calculator to calculate your desired horizontal FoV.
Apply the Red Faction: Armageddon FOV Fix.

Multi-monitor[edit]

Information Multi-monitor resolutions can be set in the registry. Use together with the Field of view (FOV) fix to improve the visible area.
Information Stretched HUD and crosshair.

Fix Set resolution in registry[3]

  1. Open the Registry Editor:
  2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Volition\Red Faction: Armageddon\Video Settings
  3. Set your resolution in ResolutionWidth and ResolutionHeight

Input settings[edit]

In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
In-game gamepad layout settings.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Native
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native
Controller
Controller support Native
Full controller support Native
Controller remapping Impossible Can only switch between pre-defined layouts.
Controller Y-axis inversion Native

Audio settings[edit]

In-game audio settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native
Surround sound Native
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Native

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native
French Native Unknown Unknown
German Native Unknown Unknown
Italian Native Unknown Unknown
Polish Native Unknown Unknown
Russian Native Unknown Unknown
Spanish Native Unknown Unknown

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN co-op Native 4
Online co-op Native 4

Connection types

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

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP (outbound) 7755
UDP (outbound) 7755

Issues fixed[edit]

Game Crashing at Start or BSOD[edit]

Information This error is normally found within AMD machines, games such as Saints Row: The Third and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine suffer the same issue.

Fix BSOD Fix

Update your motherboard BIOS. Carefully read manual to your motherboard and instructions how to update your BIOS. This procedure can break your motherboard if applied incorrectly.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP 7
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2) or higher Any Quad Core Processor (Intel Core i5 or AMD Phenom II X4) or 3.0+ GHz Dual Core CPU
System memory (RAM) 2 GB 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
7.5 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD30xx series
NVIDIA GeForce 88xx series
320 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support 		ATI Radeon HD5000 series
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series
1 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Shader model 4.0 support

References

  1. ↑ New 120Hz Games Report
  2. ↑ RF Armageddon FOV - Steam Users' Forums
  3. ↑ Red Faction Armageddon | WSGF