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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown cover
Developers
Red Storm Entertainment
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows February 16, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 59
IGDB 67
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series Rainbow Six
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown on IGDB
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown on MobyGames
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown on Wikipedia
Subseries of Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six 1998
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear 1999
Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials 2000
Rainbow Six: Take-Down 2001
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn 2001
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield 2003
Rainbow Six: Lockdown 2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 2008
Rainbow Six Siege 2015
Rainbow Six Extraction 2022

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person action, FPS, shooter and tactical shooter game in the Rainbow Six series.

General information

Official Forum
Rainbow Six Wiki
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3.6.10.07 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
European covermount DVD.[3]
Windows
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Included with Ubisoft+.
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is 1.01 and can be found on Ubisoft's patch repository, Patches-Scrolls and ModDB.
The covermount DVD is patched to v1.02.000 already.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15000/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\save[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15000/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect
[4]

Video

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Menus render in 1024x768 only. Image is Vert-, use the FOV fix for a permanent solution.
Multi-monitor
Image is Vert-, use the FOV fix for a permanent solution.
Ultra-widescreen
Image is Vert-, use the FOV fix for a permanent solution.
4K Ultra HD
Image is Vert-, use the FOV fix for a permanent solution. HUD (including aiming reticle) scales poorly however.
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)
2x, 4x, 8x, 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
2x, 4x, 8x MSAA.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Triple buffering.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High frame rates may interfere with certain scripted NPC actions: i.e. the Hospital mission fails immediately after the opening cutscene because the civilian does not run into cover and dies.See Hospital mission failed.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

In-game control settings.
In-game control 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
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Only on consoles.
LAN play
16 Versus, Co-op
Co-op: 4 players.
Online play
16 Versus, Co-op
The official multiplayer service has been shut down in 2021.[5]

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Max player limit is 14.
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 80, 2346-2348, 6668, 40000-42999
UDP 2346-2348, 44000, 45000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Destillery bug

It usually happens in the map of the distillery that when climbing stairs the screen goes black or when you throw grenades the character falls off the map or the bot allies when climbing stairs disappear (that is, they fall of the map).
Run the game in compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack 3.[6]

Hospital mission failed

Occurs due to scripts breaking at framerates higher than 60 FPS.
Limit the frame rate to 60 FPS[citation needed]
Enable Vsync in Video options and set monitor refresh rate to 60 Hz.[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 1.1 [citation needed]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio FMOD
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer Ubi.com
Anti-cheat PunkBuster

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium IV 1.5 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce3 series
ATI Radeon 8000 series
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0 compatible
Other 8X DVD-ROM
Supported video cards at time of retail release: ATI RADEON 8500/9000/X families, NVIDIA GeForce 3/4/FX/6/7 families (GeForce 4 MX cards are NOT supported. Laptop models of these cards may work but are not considered supported.

Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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>/15000/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15000) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References