Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Developers   Gray Matter Interactive   id Software   Nerve Software   Splash Damage

Publishers   Activision OS X Aspyr Media

Engines   id Tech 3

Release dates Windows November 19, 2001 Linux March 16, 2002 OS X April 2002

Wolfenstein

Castle Wolfenstein	1981
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein	1984
Wolfenstein 3D	1992
Spear of Destiny	1992
Mission 2: Return to Danger
Mission 3: Ultimate Challenge
Return to Castle Wolfenstein	2001
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory	2003
Wolfenstein	2009
Wolfenstein: The New Order	2014

Key points

Master servers for the multiplayer were shut down in February 2012. A mod S4NDMoD solves this problem, by making a game use fans' master server.

General information

Official Wolfenstein series site

Wolfenstein Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Wolfenstein game made.

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Retail
Steam		Windows only

Essential improvements

Unofficial Patch

A patch by Knightmare that fixes various crashes and adds native widescreen support.

S4NDMoD

A mod that focuses on fixing exploits and adding necessary features to RTCW multiplayer. A list of features can be found here. Due to master server being down, this mod is the best solution to make server browser work, again. Mod can be downloaded, here.

Game data

In-game HUD settings.

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Main\*.cfg
OS X
Linux

wolfconfig.cfg contains single player settings.

wolfconfig_mp.cfg contains multiplayer settings.

Save game data location

	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Main\save
OS X
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

In-game general video settings.

In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Can also be toggled with Alt+↵ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Force in the graphics card control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Force in the graphics card control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
High frame rate		See High frame rate.

Widescreen resolution

The Unofficial Patch should already add support for common resolutions in the in-game options.

Using console commands Launch the game and open the console with ~ or \. Use these console commands in the following order, replace the width and height with your resolution. \r_customwidth 2048 \r_customheight 1152 \r_mode -1 \vid_restart Notes In order to change the FOV see Field of view (FOV) for more information. This solution works for both the Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes.

Manually through a config file Open wolfconfig.cfg with a text editor. Replace the width and height with your resolution. seta r_customwidth "2048" seta r_customheight "1152" seta r_mode "-1"

Field of view (FOV)

Changing FOV (Single-player, with config file) Open wolfconfig.cfg with a text editor. Modify the line seta cg_fov "90" with your desired value.

Changing FOV (Single-player, with console command) Launch game with +set sv_cheats 1 parameter. Start a new game or load a a previous save. Open console, by pressing ~ and type in: cg_fov X where X is your horizontal FOV value.

Changing FOV (Multi-player) Create or join a server. Open console, by pressing ~ and type in: cg_fov X where X is your horizontal FOV value. Notes It is recommended, not to launch multiplayer game with sv_cheats 1 attribute. This can be problematic, when using Steam version, since it doesn't allow to specify separate launch attributes for singleplayer and multiplayer.

High frame rate

Edit wolfconfig.cfg Open wolfconfig.cfg with a text editor. Modify the line seta com_maxfps "85" with your desired value.

Input settings

In-game general control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Disabled by default. Smoothing can be toggled in Controls menu. Acceleration can be activated via console with cl_mouseAccel 1
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		Stereo output only
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP		Use connect [IP address here] in the console.

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP (outbound)	28960
UDP (outbound)	27960

Issues fixed

Enlarged Upper Left Corner of Screen

Increasing the game resolution above 800x600 causes the upper left corner of the game to take up the entire screen. One reason is that game detects a 3dfx driver (possibly caused by nGlide).

Edit wolfconfig.cfg Open wolfconfig.cfg with a text editor. Search for the line seta r_glIgnoreWicked3D "0" Change "0" to "1" Save the changes.

Other information

Disable view bob

Edit wolfconfig.cfg Open wolfconfig.cfg with a text editor. Find the lines: seta cg_bobup "0.005" seta cg_bobpitch "0.002" seta cg_bobroll "0.002" and change their values to "0".

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95 OSR2	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.1 GB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM OpenGL compatible DirectX 8.0a compatible

Supported chipsets: 3dfx Voodoo 3 or higher, ATI Rage 128/128 Pro, ATI Radeon, Matrox G400, Nvidia Riva TNT and TNT2, all Nvidia GeForce chips