Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

Developers
	Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	November 28, 2006
Reception
Metacritic	85
IGDB	86
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, North America
Series	Rainbow Six

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

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 7 DRM. Russian copies use StarForce 4 DRM. Italian covermount is DRM-free.
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam
Ubisoft Store		Included with Ubisoft+.

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Map Pack	Available for free. See Map Pack.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is v1.06, available from Ubisoft's patch repository and Patches-Scrolls.

Map Pack

The only official map pack for the game. it includes all the content from the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 DLCs (Player's Pack Red Edition and Player's Pack Black Edition, 10 maps total). It can be downloaded from PCGamingWiki.

Ambient noises will not play on the extra maps.

Polish and Russian fonts don't display properly due to the fact that they don't use the proper characters.

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Engine\Config %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ubisoft\R6Vegas\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13540/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ubisoft\R6Vegas\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13540/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			No native support for 16:10 resolutions, use the resolution patcher. HUD is centered in 4:3 regardless of setting, see HUD is in the 4:3 middle of the screen on wide resolutions.
Multi-monitor			Not natively supported. See instructions on Widescreen Gaming Forum.
Ultra-widescreen			Not natively supported. See instructions on Widescreen Gaming Forum.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Use this guide to change the FOV.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Some aspects of the game are tied to the frame rate. Characters may twitch unnaturally when idling at high frame rates.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Rendered image uses SDR color space. In-game HDR option refers only to HDR Rendering.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Anisotropic filtering[citation needed]
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open BaseEngine.ini. Search and change LevelOfAnisotropy=4 to the desired value. Save the changes and close the file.

Remove the bloom/haze effects

This removes the bloom/haze but retains the thermal/night vision and other blur effects.

Remove effects

Go to <path-to-game>\Engine\Shaders\HLSL\MegaPostProcess. Open Blur.hlsl with a text editor. Find this line: return lerp(PreviousColor, BlurColor, Factor) + BloomColor; Change it to the following: return lerp(PreviousColor, BlurColor, Factor); Find the following lines: float3 BloomColor = BlurColor * BlurScreenThresold.g + BlurScreenThresold.r; BloomColor = max(BloomColor, 0.0f) * BlurScreenAmount; Change them to the following: //float3 BloomColor = BlurColor * BlurScreenThresold.g + BlurScreenThresold.r; //BloomColor = max(BloomColor, 0.0f) * BlurScreenAmount;

Input

In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		↵ Enter cannot be bound to commands. Mouse wheel scrolling does nothing and cannot be bound to commands.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		The game always uses the modified bullet collision data adopted for the mouse aim accuracy, see "Issues fixed" section to revert the game to the Xbox 360 version behaviour.
Full controller support		One time prompt to enable controller support, which cannot be answered with a controller.
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Uses the same toggle.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

All languages besides English and French must be enabled manually in the Steam version. See Change game language.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese				Retail only.
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese				Fan translation; download.
Russian				Official localization by Russobit-M.
Russian				Fan translation by SyS-team / Spirit Team
Spanish

Change game language

Edit .ini file
Go to <path-to-game>\Kellergame\Config\PC. Open KellerEngine.ini. Locate Language=int and change it to the desired value: fra for French, deu for German, ita for Italian, pol for Polish, rus for Russian, and esp for Spanish. Save the changes and close the file. For the Polish version on Steam, this is also needed to have Polish voices in cutscenes.

Network

In-game multiplayer settings.

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		2	Only on consoles.
LAN play		16	Versus, Co-op Co-op: 4 players.
Online play		16	Versus, Co-op Co-op: 4 players The official multiplayer service was shut down on March 1, 2021.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	80, 3074
UDP	3074-3174

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Game does not start

The game will not start through the launcher on some systems.

Edit configuration file[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\Binaries. Open runme.dat in a text editor. Change R6Vegas_Launcher.exe to R6Vegas_Game.exe. Save the file and run the game.

Controller not recognized

Instructions

Find the controller in the Device Manager. Open device properties and navigate to details. Select Hardware Ids in the dropdown. Copy VID (Vendor ID) and PID (Product ID) Use Hexadecimal Converter to convert ids from hexadecimal to decimal Open the following files in a text editor: <path-to-game>\KellerGame\Config\PC\DefaultJoysticks.ini <path-to-game>\KellerGame\Config\PCKellerJoysicks.ini <path-to-game>KellerGame\Config\DefaultJoysticks.ini In each file under [Joystick 0], edit VendorID and ProductID to match the converted decimal values for the used controller Under the ids, add UseXInput=true

Game crashes on startup

Install PhysX Legacy System Software v9.03.0604[citation needed]

It is also highly recommended to remove leftover registry values to avoid issues in other games.

HUD is in the middle of the screen (as if on a 4:3 display) on widescreen resolutions

The widescreen HUD in the fix is a leftover file from the Xbox 360 version and it causes the bugged cover sniper aim along with the UI shift to the left when used.

16:9 fullscreen HUD fix[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\KellerGame\Content\MenusPC. Delete or rename r6hud.mgb Go to <path-to-game>\KellerGame\Content\MenusPC\Widescreen. Copy r6hudWide.mgb to the folder above one level (MenusPC) and rename it to r6hud.mgb.

Restore the original bullet collision configuration

The game uses the modified bullet collision config adopted for the pinpoint mouse aim accuracy even when the controller is active.

No actual gameplay benefits with restoring it when not playing on a gamepad.

Replace the KellerWeaponsConfig.ini file with the original Xbox 360 one[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\Rainbow Six Vegas\KellerGame\Config\PC. Back up the original KellerWeaponsConfig.ini file. Download the replacement file and overwrite the original one.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c
Shader Model support	3

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX	2.5.1
Audio	DARE
Cutscenes	Bink Video	1.8.8.0
Multiplayer	DemonWare, Rendez-Vous, Ubi.com
Anti-cheat	PunkBuster

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon 3000+	Intel Pentium 4 3.5 GHz AMD Athlon 3500+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	7 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support	256 MB of VRAM