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Independence War

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Independence War
Independence War cover
Developers
Particle Systems
Publishers
1997-2003 Infogrames
2003-present Atari
Engines
BRender
Release dates
Windows November 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Series Independence War
Independence War on MobyGames
Independence War on Wikipedia
Independence War
Independence War 1997
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos 2001

General information

Titled I-War in Europe.
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Deluxe Edition. Includes the GOG.com installer.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Deluxe Edition. Pre-packaged with nGlide.
Windows
Steam
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Deluxe Edition. Pre-packaged with nGlide.
Windows
Free demo versions are available from Archive.org: base game, Deluxe Edition.

Version differences

The Deluxe Edition includes the exclusive Defiance expansion.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Defiance Bundled with Deluxe Edition. Unavailable separately.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Apply the Independence War intro skip (GOG.com)
Run the game with the -nologos command line argument (retail)[1]

Avoid Crash on the second tutorial mission

Run the game with the -b -16 command line arguments[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/330590/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/330590/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched/pillarboxed 4:3. Use nGlide (pre-installed in the GOG.com and Steam versions) for non-standard resolutions, but force the 4:3 aspect ratio to prevent stretching.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Use nGlide (pre-installed in the GOG.com and Steam versions).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

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

Issues fixed

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows

The installer program on the base retail version of the game is 16-bit, which is unable to run on 64-bit versions of Windows.[2]
Use an alternate installer (retail)
  1. Extract the contents of disc 1 to somewhere on the hard drive.
  2. Download the InstallShield 3 32-bit Generic Installer and extract setup32.exe to the root folder.
  3. Run setup32.exe and install.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 80 MB
Video card (GPU) Software renderer


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>/330590/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (330590) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Dreadnaught's Independence War Page - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Verified by User:AdventureWetpaint on 21 December 2021