Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault

Developer(s)	Relic Entertainment
Publisher(s)	THQ
Engine	Impossible Creatures Engine (heavily modified)
First release date	September 23, 2005

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War	2004
Winter Assault (expansion)
Dark Crusade (standalone)
Soulstorm (standalone)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II	2009
Chaos Rising (standalone)
Retribution (standalone)

Key points

Dawn of War and all of its expansions are highly modifiable and several high quality mods are available.

Dawn of War and its expansion, Winter Assault, share game files.

Dawn of War previously used GameSpy, support for which was discontinued at the end of 2012 due to their takeover.

Pseudo-Multiplayer is still possible thanks to GameRanger, or alternatively using Hamachi.

General information

Steam Users' Forums for Dawn of War series

Video settings

Graphics option	Native	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See Vertical sync (Vsync)

Field of view (FOV)

This fix will greatly enhance zoom capabilities.

Field of view (FOV) • Link Download Camera Zoom Mod from FileFront Copy .lua file to Dawn of War\Engine\Data\

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Widescreen resolution • Link Run game at least once to generate .ini file. Navigate to game folder and open Local.ini. Locate line screennovsync=0 and change it to screennovsync=1.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Forcing AA will render fonts blurry and harder to read.

Forcing AA via graphics driver will result in greater AA. INI fix is probably only 2x AA.

Anti-aliasing (AA) • Link Run game at least once to generate .ini file. Navigate to game folder and open Local.ini. Locate line screenantialias=0 and change it to screenantialias=1.

Input settings

Input Settings	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Controller support

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows 98/2000/XP/ME	Windows 98/2000/XP/ME
Processor (CPU)	1.4 GHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon XP processor	2.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent
System memory (RAM)	256 MB RAM	512 MB System RAM (required for 8-player multiplayer games)
Video card (GPU)	32 MB DirectX 9.0b compatible AGP video card with Hardware Transform and Lighting	nVidia GeForce 3 or ATI Radeon 8500 or equivalent with 64 MB of Video RAM
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4.5 GB	4.5 GB