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Redline

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Redline
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Developers
Beyond Games
Publishers
Retail Accolade
Digital (original) Night Dive Studios
Digital (original) Retroism
Digital (current) Atari
Release dates
Windows March 24, 1999[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres FPS, Vehicle combat
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For the unrelated racing game, see Redline (2006).

Redline is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person FPS and vehicle combat game.

General information

Redline 2066 - community site with troubleshooting, secrets, info, etc.
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].[4]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
A demo is available.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch is v1.1. Digital distributions are up-to-date.

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename Accolade_Logo.smk located in the base folder of the game

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\redline.cfg[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/328460/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saved games\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/328460/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
 
Ultra-widescreen
 
4K Ultra HD
 
Field of view (FOV)
See Widescreen resolution.
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)
Can be forced in Nvidia/AMD control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.

Widescreen resolution

Use patch[citation needed]
  1. Download the patch and extract to the installation folder.
  2. Start RedlineConfig.exe.
  3. Select the preferred settings and click "Save and Start".

Notes

Always start the game via RedlineConfig.exe to run the game with the applied settings.
Resolutions higher than 2048x2048 will crash the game.

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
12 Versus
Online play
12 Versus
Previously hosted on services such as GameSpy, HEAT.net, MPlayer.com, Wireplay, etc. Only direct IP connections are possible now.[5]

Issues unresolved

Game crashes after opening movie if using a DisplayPort connection to monitor

Only HDMI and DVI connections are supported.[6]

Game crashes after opening movie if using a wireless headset

Disconnect the USB dongle prior to starting the game.[7]

Issues fixed

Game crashes upon startup

Make sure only HDMI or DVI is used for the monitor, make sure a wireless headset isn't connected, make sure DirectPlay is enabled in Windows Settings, and make sure compatibility mode is set for Windows 98 under the game's exe.

Unable to install on modern Windows

Set the compatibility mode of setup.exe to Windows 98 / Me


Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows[8]
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
AMD K62		 Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 6.1 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Other 4X CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/328460/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (328460) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References