CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect

CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect

Developers
	Asobo Studio
Publishers
Retail	Hip Games
Digital (original)	KISS ltd
Digital (current)	Funbox Media
Engines
	Zouna
Release dates
Windows	March 24, 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	FPS

CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect is a singleplayer first-person FPS game.

The game was released as Special Forces: Nemesis Strike in North America and CT Special Force: Nemesis Strike on Xbox.

The game seems to lack either an FPS limiter or Vsync. Externally capping the framerate to 60 FPS may be necessary to prevent odd behavior.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

CT Special Forces series wiki

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		StarForce 3 DRM
GamersGate
Steam
ZOOM Platform

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

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions
Go to <path-to-game>\videos Delete or rename Asobo.avi, HIP.avi, and LOGO.avi.

Game data

External Lanucher.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\User.tsc
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/283410/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Savegame\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/283410/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.

External video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		16:10 only. See the WSGF topic for 16:9 resolutions.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		See the WSGF topic. Causes in-game messages to become small. Use dgVoodoo 2 to scale them.
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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS		FPS seems to be uncapped however anything over 60 FPS can cause the game to run too fast. You can cap the FPS in your GPU control panel.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

In-game input settings.

External input settings.

Advanced external input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Cursor is restricted to a skewed 4:3 box in the main menu.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		All controllers are unbound by default and require manual binding to all the controls.
Full controller support		Launcher and in-game menus require mouse input, pausing can be bound to the controller but unpausing requires keyboard or mouse input.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Generic/other controllers		Generic DirectInput controllers are supported.
Button prompts

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

Xinput controllers

To get controls identical to the PS2 version, bind them as the following

Action List - Secondary Roll / Zoom - in First Person Perspective - Y Reload Weapon 1 - B Use / Zoom + in First Person Perspective - A Optical Camouflage - X Fire Weapon 1 - LB Fire Weapon 2 - RT Crouch / Take cover / Accelerate in free fall - LB Looping in free fall - LT Select Previous Weapon 1 - D-pad up Select Next Weapon 1 - D-pad down Select Previous Weapon 2 - D-pad right Select Next Weapon 2 - D-pad left Change Vision Mode - Select Pause - Start First Person Perspective - Right stick click Turn around - Left stick click Move Left - Left stick left Move Right - Left stick right Move Forward - Left stick up Move Backward - Left stick down View Left - Right stick left View Right - Right stick right View Up - Right stick up View Down - Right stick down Binding the controls to the Secondary section (and not the Primary section) is preferable in case you want to simultaneously switch between keyboard, mouse and controller. The game's launcher doesn't actually detect the control buttons as in their respective names (X, Y, B, A etc), it actually detects them as Joystick 0 - Button 2, Joystick 0 - POV 3, etc. as XInput controllers did not exist at the time. This list was written with XInput buttons to facilitate reading. Binding the right trigger button to Fire Weapon 1 as per contemporary shooters' controls is not recommended as for some reason, the game has a glitch that makes the player go out of cover when pressing the right trigger while in cover, so binding it to the right bumper as per how the control was on the PS2 is recommended.

Audio

In-game audio settings.

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French				Retail only.
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Choppy animations

It's unknown what exactly causes this issue.

Restart your computer

Game runs too fast

This issue is caused by having the game run at a high FPS.

Cap the FPS using MSI Afterburner or your GPU control panel to 60 FPS

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, 2000, Me, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz AMD Athlon 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB (98, Me), 256 MB (2000, XP)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 7500 Series Matrox Parhelia DirectX 9 compatible	Nvidia GeForce 5000 Series ATI Radeon 9000 Series
Other	16X CD-ROM