Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
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Developers | |
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Red Storm Entertainment | |
Mac OS (Classic) | i5works[1] |
macOS (OS X) | i5works[1] |
Publishers | |
Ubisoft | |
Mac OS, OS X | Aspyr Media |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 13, 2001 |
Mac OS (Classic) | November 1, 2002 |
macOS (OS X) | November 1, 2002 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 80 |
IGDB | 68 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Contemporary |
Series | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon |
Warnings
- The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS, shooter and tactical shooter game in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]. | |||
Retail | "2 Great Games" edition. | |||
Epic Games Store | ||||
GOG.com | Does not include the Desert Siege and Island Thunder expansions. | |||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | ||||
Ubisoft Store | Included with Ubisoft+. |
Demo
- A free demo version is available to download here.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Desert Siege | Mac OS version is only available in the Game of The Year Pack. | |
Island Thunder | See Island Thunder not available on Mac for Mac conversion. |
Essential improvements
Patch
- The latest official patch for the base game is v1.4, but requires v1.3 to be installed first. Both are available from Ubisoft's patch repository and Patches-Scrolls.
- An additional update for the Desert Siege multiplayer segment is available from Ubisoft's patch repository and Patches-Scrolls.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\options.xml[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15300/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Mods\Origmiss\save\[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15300/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Ubisoft Connect |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Vert-; game looks cropped when using widescreen resolutions.[4] Increase FOV to compensate by using the Widescreen Fixer. Menus are locked at 640x480. | ||
Multi-monitor | Vert-; game looks cropped when using multimonitor resolutions.[4] Increase FOV to compensate by using the Widescreen Fixer. To fix the zoom and binocular masks at 48:10, see also the WSGF entry. Menus are locked at 640x480. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Vert-; game looks cropped when using ultrawide resolutions.[4] Increase FOV to compensate by using the Widescreen Fixer. Menus are locked at 640x480. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Vert-; game looks cropped when using widescreen resolutions.[4] Increase FOV to compensate by using the Widescreen Fixer. Menus are locked at 640x480. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | Use Widescreen Fixer. | ||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
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) | Broken in the latest Windows 10/11 version because of DWM; see Vsync not working on Windows 10 and newer. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Windowed
Instructions[5] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Seems to be turned off by default, no option to turn on. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, effects, music and voice. | |
Surround sound | Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software. | |
Subtitles | Important messages are still displayed in text, but do not match speech. | |
Closed captions | Despite this, source of attacks are shown from the compass. | |
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 2.0. | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Czech | Fan - 1 | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Retail only. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail only. | |||
Russian | Retail only. | |||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 36 | |||
Online play | 36 | The official Ubi.com service has been shut down. |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D User created profile, requires dgVoodoo2 v2.55.4, see profile introduction. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum. |
Issues fixed
Failed to start game
- Can manifest as an error reporting that the game is already running, or Task Manager/Process Explorer showing the game in the task list briefly before it is closed.
Delete dbghelp.dll[citation needed] |
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Vsync not working on Windows 10 and newer
Use dgVoodoo 2[6] |
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Screen flickering
Use d3d8to9[citation needed] |
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Run game in Windowed mode[citation needed] |
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Use Borderless Gaming[citation needed] |
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Island Thunder not available on Mac
Use Virtual PC, or a PC to extract the files (requires PC expansion)[7] |
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Notes
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
macOS (OS X) | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | DirectSound3D | |
Multiplayer | Ubi.com |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 450 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 9 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC G3 450 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | ATI Rage 128 16 MB of VRAM |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.0 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC G3 450 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | ATI Rage 128 16 MB of VRAM |
- Supported video cards at time of release: ATI Rage 128 and Radeon chips, Intel 82810 or higher, Matrox Parhelia, NVIDIA TNT2 and GeForce chips, S3 Pro Savage and UniChrome. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (15300) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aspyr gets ready to ship four new games - Macworld - last accessed on 2016-7-23
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Vert- behavior in Ghost Recon 1 (4:3, 16:9, 21:9 and 48:9 - Imgur
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-02-26
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-06-17
- ↑ Island Thunder™ Mac Tutorial by *DAMN Mauti 9.3.2003