Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Developers | |
---|---|
Red Storm Entertainment | |
Mac OS (Classic) | Varcon Systems |
Publishers | |
Ubisoft | |
Mac OS | MacSoft |
Release dates | |
Windows | August 21, 1998 |
Mac OS (Classic) | December 8, 1999 |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Subseries of Tom Clancy | |
Rainbow Six | 1998 |
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear | 1999 |
Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials | 2000 |
Rainbow Six: Take-Down | 2001 |
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn | 2001 |
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield | 2003 |
Rainbow Six: Lockdown | 2006 |
Rainbow Six: Vegas | 2006 |
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 | 2008 |
Rainbow Six Siege | 2015 |
Rainbow Six Extraction | 2022 |
Key points
- The official online multiplayer service is no longer available[1]
- Poor compatibility with modern systems
- Cannot use Alt+Tab ↹ while in-game
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | SafeDisc v1.00.026 DRM[Note 1] | |||
GOG.com | ||||
Ubisoft Store | Included with Ubisoft+. |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- Demo
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
---|---|---|
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch |
Essential improvements
Patches
Patch 1.04 is the latest patch available for the game].
Skip intro videos
The executable DevicePicker.exe
can be run to skip intro videos.
Files can also be deleted manually by emptying the folder:
<path-to-game>\data\video
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six\[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
- Key bindings are stored in the
sherman.kmp
file (located at<path-to-game>
)
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\data\save[Note 3] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Ubisoft Connect |
Video settings
- Software renderer for Eagle Watch renders fully opaque windows that enemies can see through.
Widescreen resolution
- Download dgVoodoo
- Extract somewhere
- Launch dgVoodoo and press the Add button on the right of config folder and point it to the R6 folder
- General tab: appearance fullscreen,scaling mode stretched,keep aspect ratio
- DirectX tab: videocard dgVoodoo 3D, vram 1024
- Press Apply
- Go to dgVoodoo folder and open MS folder and copy the 3 files D3D8,D3Dlmm,DDraw.dll and put them in the folder where rainbowsix.exe is
- Press the windows button, type in "regedit" in search and run it, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Wow6432Node -> Red Storm Entertainment -> Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (start the game once for these entries to appear)
- Also change MouseRadiansPerPixel to 0.002727 or lower
- Change Fullscreen to TRUE
Note: There might be an issue with the mouse if the value is not correct, also mouse cursor trails gets stuck on the screen.
Windowed
- Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
- Change the FullScreen entry value from
TRUE
toFALSE
.
Input settings
Mouse sensitivity
- Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
- Change the
MouseRadiansPerPixel
entry value.
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
German | ||||
French | ||||
Spanish | Fan translation, download. |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
vorpX | G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.6, see profile introdution. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
LAN play | 8 | |||
Online play | 8 |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
---|---|
TCP | 2346 |
UDP | 2346 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues fixed
Windows 10 crash at Start-Up
Go to the game installation folder and rename/delete winmm.dll
Black screen
A black screen can sometime occur when running the game. This may be caused by not being able to run cinematics correctly. Skip intro videos to fix this issue.
Crashes at Start-up
- If the game is crashing, error reports can be found in the
Sherman.log
file
Renderer::CreateBuffers() failed
If you see the message Renderer::CreateBuffers() failed during ClearBuffers() : Blt() in file C:\Develop\Common\Renderer\renderer.cpp at line 1330
Error = "An exception was encountered while performing the requested operation."
in your Sherman.log file and you are using an Nvidia card, try updating your drivers. This issue is known to occur when using the 331.40 beta drivers and is known to be resolved by upgrading to the 331.65 release drivers.
Renderer::Fullscreen() failed
If you see the message Renderer::Fullscreen() failed during Renderer::SetDisplayMode() in file C:\Develop\Common\Renderer\renderer.cpp at line 1244
Error = "Operation requires the application to have exclusive mode but the application does not have exclusive mode."
in your Sherman.log file and you are using an ATI/AMD card, there are currently three possible fixes:
Methods 1 & 2
For the optimal experience, either roll back the display driver to a version prior to 13.4 or run the game in a virtual machine with Windows XP.
Method 3
Setup the game compatibility settings[citation needed] |
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Invisible NPCs
You may come across missions where the victory conditions won't trigger. For instance, in mission 5, "Ghost Dance", there are supposed to be 5 hostages, but you might only see 4 actually rendered in the level. The 5th will appear on your map but not in the level. The only way to fix this is to modify the victory conditions for the level:
Modify the mission victory conditions file[citation needed] |
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// Condition 0: Rescue the hostages HUMAN_CLASS_CONDITION HOSTAGES DESCRIPTION VC_GEN_RESCUE_ALL_HOSTAGES GOAL_TYPE PRIMARY_GOAL HAS_REACHED_EXTRACTION_ZONE 1 NUMBER ALL RESULT SUCCESS 3. Change the "NUMBER ALL" portion to "NUMBER 4"
|
- This fix can be applied to any level with similar victory conditions (ex. If the condition is "kill all terrorists" and the level fails to load some of the terrorists)
Software Rendering
The software renderer in Eagle Watch doesn't support transparent windows, while the main game used a semi-transparent grill to show windows instead. The result is that enemies can see and kill through windows.
This only affects old systems without a 3D accelerator.
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 6 | |
OpenGL | Mac OS only. | |
Software renderer |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Windows | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
---|---|---|
Cutscenes | Smacker Video Technology | |
Multiplayer | MPlayer.com |
System requirements
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 166 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | 32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 57 MB | 380 MB |
Video card (GPU) | 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible |
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]
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details. - ↑ 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).
References
- ↑ Discontinued Online Multiplayer Server List - Ubisoft Support
- ↑ 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