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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 cover
Developers
GRIN
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Diesel 2.0
Release dates
Windows June 28, 2007
Reception
Metacritic 76
IGDB 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, North America, Sci-fi
Series Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 guide on StrategyWiki
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Subseries of Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2001
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2006
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 2007
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier 2012
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms 2014
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands 2017
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint 2019
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Frontline Cancelled

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS, shooter and tactical shooter game in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
CD key
The executable is DRM-free.[1]
Windows
Amazon.com
CD key
Windows
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable)
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[2]
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
Ubisoft Store (unavailable)
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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is v1.05, available from Ubisoft's patch repository and Patches-Scrolls (international | Russian).
[1] 8K-Remastered Textures. Attention, the instructions may be faulty in some cases. Inside the directory Local, if you do not have a folder named English, create one. Them put the texture files inside the Folder TEXTURES. Afterwards, the game might revert to the setting of low for textures. Change the setting to high. Don't forget to patch the executable to address more than 2gb memory if on 64 bit Windows. you can use nt 4gb, here https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\GRAW2\data\settings\renderer_settings.xml
%LOCALAPPDATA%\GRAW2\settings\profiles\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13510/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\GRAW2\settings\profiles\<user-id>\savegames
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13510/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

Video Settings.
Video Settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Use Flawless Widescreen or Widescreen Fixer.
Ultra-widescreen
Image is stretched from 16:9. Use Flawless Widescreen or Widescreen Fixer.
4K Ultra HD
Entire HUD scales very poorly at higher resolutions.
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of View.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Off, and Edge Smoothing.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Can be forced on via the GPU control panel.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Field of View

Use Flawless Widescreen[citation needed]
Edit configuration file
  1. Open the configuration file in a text editor.
  2. Change the value of "aspect ratio". A value of 2 to 2.5 is recommended for 16:9 displays, with 2.3 being ideal with minimal clipping of weapon models.[3] For example, <variable name="aspect_ratio" value="0"/> becomes <variable name="aspect_ratio" value="2.3"/>.
  3. Save the file.

Input

Input Settings 1/2.
Input Settings 1/2.
Input Settings 2/2.
Input Settings 2/2.

Audio

Audio Settings.
Audio Settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output through OpenAL.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 4.0
Royalty free audio
OpenAL Soft 1.19.0 and 1.19.1 cause distorted audio in Diesel engine games. OpenAL Soft 1.20.1 fixes the audio.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation: download (TriboGamer)
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[4] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Dedicated server software is included in the installation folder.
Self-hosting
Requires either log-in to any GameSpy alternative or LAN (including through VPN)
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Failed to start game

Can manifest as an error reporting that the game is already running, or Task Manager/Process Explorer showing the game in the task list briefly before it is closed.
Restart Steam[citation needed]

Startup crash

Startup crashes pertain to PhysX v2.7.1.

Uninstall PhysX, and install the latest Nvidia PhysX System Software.

Crash at launch: Unhandled exception - divide by zero (integer)

Use the patch by indiaZaop (requires patch 1.05)[5]

Crash during campaign briefing - PhysX

Adjust physics options[6]
  1. Open the in-game options menu, select the video tab.
  2. Show advanced options.
  3. Change Physics from "PhysX High" to "Normal".

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX 2.7.1.6
Audio OpenAL
Cutscenes Bink Video 1.6b
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce FX 5500
ATI Radeon X850
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 2.0 support
Other 128 Kbps Broadband Internet connection or faster
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but are not supported.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/13510/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (13510) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. The Ubi DRM-Free Games List - last accessed on March 2024
  2. GRAW 2 - Games for Windows - last accessed on 12 March 2024
  3. Steam Discussions - last accessed on 2022-01-31
  4. Pricing | GameSpy Technology
  5. [[missing url] Ghost Recon Downloads » Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 » Miscellaneous GRAW 2 Files » GRAW2 (Divide Zero) Fix] - last accessed on 2024-02-24
  6. Game keeps crashing when I try to play the first mission, any ideas? - Steam Community