Difference between revisions of "Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30"
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Revision as of 14:39, 9 August 2023
Developers | |
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Gearbox Software | |
Publishers | |
Windows | Ubisoft |
OS X | Feral Interactive |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 2 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 15, 2005 |
macOS (OS X) | 2011 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 87 |
IGDB | 92 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter |
Themes | World War II |
Series | Brothers in Arms |
Brothers in Arms | |
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Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 | 2005 |
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood | 2005 |
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway | 2008 |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1] | |||
Retail | Only in Hungary. | |||
Retail | Double Time. Bundled with Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood. | |||
Amazon.com | Double Time. Bundled with Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood. | |||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | Not available in Germany | |||
Ubisoft Store | Included with Ubisoft+. | |||
Mac App Store (unavailable) |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- The Brothers in Arms Collection (released in Europe) is DRM-free and all 3 games have the latest patches integrated.[3]
- A free demo version is available from GameFront.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Subscription gaming service | Available via Ubisoft+. |
Essential improvements
Patches
Patch 1.11 is the latest version.
Skip intro videos
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Fix for texture flickering, physics issues, EAX, mouse
Running this game without having made any modifications leads to flickering textures and major physics problems.
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %APPDATA%\Roaming\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>\ |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15190/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %APPDATA%\Roaming\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>\ |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15190/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Ubisoft Connect | [5] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | See Field of view (FOV). | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See Field of view (FOV). | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | See Field of view (FOV). | ||
Windowed | Alt+↵ Enter | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 16x. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | SGSSAA is available with 0x00401045 flag in Nvidia inspector | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | No frame rate cap. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Field of view (FOV)
Edit User.ini[6] |
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DesiredFOV=63.000000 DefaultFOV=63.000000 Notes
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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 |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software or OpenAL. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 3.0, EAX 4.0. | |
Royalty free audio |
-
DefOpenAL32.dll
works as a DirectSound3D driver which can be used with DSOAL to restore EAX.
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | ||||
Dutch | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Official translation for Steam and Uplay version here, also a fan translation is available | |||
Italian | ||||
Russian | Only in retail version. Patch for digital release here | |||
Polish | Retail release only. For digital releases use this | |||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | ||||
LAN play | 4 | |||
Online play |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 40000-43000 |
UDP | 44000, 45000, 45001 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues fixed
Crash with garbled screen when changing resolution
Windows 10 (and possibly other versions) may also give the error "Application bia.exe blocked access to graphics hardware". This crash seems to be related to the intro videos.
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9.0c |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | OpenAL | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
Modifications
- Rendroc's WarZone - a list of improvements ranging from a command mode similar to Hell's Highway and more effective AI to massive single player bot matches.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 2000 | XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz |
Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz AMD Athlon 2.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3.5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible | 64 MB of VRAM |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.5.8 | 10.6.2 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 1.4 GHz | Intel 2.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | 3 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3.6 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM | 512 MB of VRAM |
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 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 (15190) 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
- ↑ Amazon.com - Brothers in Arms Collection - last accessed on 2020-11-13
- ↑ web.archive.org - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ Cloud save support for games available on Ubisoft+ - last accessed on 2021-09-04
- ↑ WSGF article - last accessed on May 2023