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==Essential improvements and Fixes== | ==Essential improvements and Fixes== |
Revision as of 10:43, 1 May 2021
Developers | |
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IO Interactive | |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Re-Release | IO Interactive |
Engines | |
Glacier | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 26, 2003 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 80 |
IGDB | 70 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Shooter |
Art styles | Realistic |
General information
- The Retail version of the game lacks an FPS limiter or vsync and causes a lot of bugs and physical glitches with frame rates above 60 FPS, although it can be fixed by forcing Vsync from the game's configuration files.
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]. | |||
Epic Games Store | 2020 Re-Release | |||
GOG.com | 2020 Re-Release | |||
Steam | 2020 Re-Release |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Freedom.ini[Note 2] %APPDATA%\IO Interactive\Freedom Fighters\Freedom.ini (Re-Release 2020) |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1347780/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Freedom Fighters\ %APPDATA%\IO Interactive\Freedom Fighters\ (Re-Release 2020) |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1347780/pfx/[Note 3] |
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<path-to-game>\Save
is also needed and must be present to load saves.[3]
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
GOG Galaxy | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud |
Essential improvements and Fixes
Skip intro videos
Edit ini setting[citation needed] |
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Enable Alt+F4
Edit ini setting[citation needed] |
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Can't load save games, Initialization error
Delete a file[citation needed] |
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Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. Natively supported in digital versions. |
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Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Ultrawide resolutions can be selected in digital version, but image is Vert- with no way to increase FOV to compensate. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Menus, game UI and text don't scale and are unreadable at 4k. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Windowed | Borderless. See Windowed. Natively supported in digital versions. |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Windowed. Natively supported in digital versions. |
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Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See Anisotropic filtering (AF). | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See Anti-aliasing (AA). | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See Vertical sync (Vsync). | ||
60 FPS | Frame rate is capped to 62 FPS on digital versions. | ||
120+ FPS | Frame rates higher than 60 FPS will cause issues with camera, animations, and player physics such as being able to jump or going down stairways. |
Widescreen resolution
Widescreen fix[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Windowed
Set windowed mode[citation needed] |
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Vertical sync (Vsync)
Set Vsync[citation needed] |
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Anti-aliasing (AA)
MSAA |
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Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Set anisotropic filtering |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Mouse acceleration
Use OS mouse acceleration instead of direct mouse input[citation needed] |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Use the nemesis2000 method to disable it. Can only be used in cutscenes. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | A3D 2.0, EAX 3.[4] |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | Retail only. For digital version download from here. | |||
German | Retail only. For digital version download from DeutschPatch or CompiWare. | |||
Spanish | Retail only. For digital version download from here. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8.1 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 98, ME, 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 733 MHz AMD Athlon 800 MHz |
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System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 650 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 256 ATI Radeon DDR 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible |
System requirements 2020 Re-release
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz Athlon XP Equivalent |
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Athlon XP/64-bit equivalent |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 800 MB | 1 GB |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 10 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1347780/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1347780) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ GameSave Manager: Forum • View topic - Freedom Fighters
- ↑ EAX® ADVANCED HD™ Effects in Freedom Fighters - SoundBlaster.com (retrieved)