Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
- 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.
- GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Key points
- Suffers from unfixable audio issues, bad audio quality, popping, low, or completely broken audio. No fix is available.[citation needed]
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete or rename GrayMatr.bik , intro.bik and intro2.bik in <path-to-game>/Movies .
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video settings
Template:Video settings
Input settings
Template:Input settings
Audio settings
Template:Audio settings
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Russian |
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Only available in the Russian retail version. |
Spanish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Issues fixed
Weirdly stretched textures
{{Fixbox|description=Use WineD3D for Windows|ref=[citation needed]|fix=
- Download WineD3D for Windows. If you have an old graphics card, download the pre-vulkan version, otherwise go for the regular vulkan version.
- Open the downloaded zip and extract
d3d8.dll
and wined3d.dll
to the installation folder.
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
8 |
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Executable | PPC |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows | |
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macOS (OS X) | | |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Multiplayer |
GameSpy |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
98 | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium III
| Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
128 MB |
256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
3.3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible | |
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
10.2.8 |
Processor (CPU) |
PowerPC G4 1.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
3 GB |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce2 MX ATI Radeon 8500 |
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]
- ↑ 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).
References