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Army Men: RTS

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Army Men: RTS
Army Men: RTS cover
Developers
Pandemic Studios
Publishers
3DO
2K Games
Engines
Zero
Release dates
Windows March 24, 2002
Army Men: RTS on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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Army Men: Sarge's War 2004

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions - for game series.
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
ClanEXF forums - Army Men RTS fan community.

Availability

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Multiplayer hack

Multiplayer hack is a trainer that enables skirmishes against AI opponents in multiplayer, without the need for other players to join via the network.
Instructions[3]
  1. Download the trainer archive, extract the files and run the AMRTS Trainer program.
  2. Click Press me to enable button.
  3. Start the game and create a new multiplayer game with AI opponents.

Special Operations + Intelligence Files

Special Operations + Intelligence Files is a mod that adds Special Operations missions and Intelligence Files menu that were only available in the console versions of the game.

High resolution textures

Army Men RTS - high resolution texture pack contains 200 textures updated using an algorithm based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

Level of detail

Game switches between high and low quality models depending on the distance from the camera.
Instructions[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\library\engine\.
  2. Open detail.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Increase the value of MrmDist, so higher quality models are rendered even far away.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\settings.cfg[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/694500/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\user\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/694500/pfx/[Note 3]
data.cfg contains user campaign progress, while save files are inside the saves folder.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General audio/video settings.
General audio/video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Game only lists first 22 available resolutions in the options menu (usually 1280x1024, 32-bit is the highest resolution available).
dgVoodoo 2 can be used to force higher resolutions, while the resolution set in the options menu controls the aspect ratio.
Menus and in-game interface (HUD) is scaled properly on very high resolutions and is not small.
Instructions[4]
  1. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2 and unpack it (verified working on version 2.54).
  2. Copy all the files from the MS folder and paste them into the game installation folder.
  3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe and in the DirectX tab set the desired resolution.
  4. (Optional: enable anisotropic filtering, so that menus and text are not pixelated).
  5. Click Apply to save the settings, then click OK to exit the program.
  6. In the game options menu select a resolution that has the same aspect ratio as the one set in dgVoodoo.
  • HUD size can be controlled with the resolution set in the game options menu; the lower the selected resolution, the bigger will the HUD be displayed on screen.

Ultra-widescreen

Instructions[4]
  1. In the GPU control panel create a custom ultra-widescreen resolution that is smaller than 1280x1024 (like 1280x540), so it can be selected in the game options menu for the proper aspect ratio.
  2. Follow the instructions above.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[5] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy GameSpy Arcade

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 310 MB
Video card (GPU) Direct3D Accelerated Video Card
16 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 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. 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. 3.0 3.1 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>/694500/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (694500) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References