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Command & Conquer: Renegade

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Command & Conquer: Renegade
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Developers
Westwood Studios
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Westwood 3D
Release dates
Windows February 26, 2002
Command & Conquer: Renegade on Wikipedia
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
⤏ Go to series page
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Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 2007
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 2008
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising 2009
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight 2010
OpenRA (unofficial) 2010
Command & Conquer (2013) Cancelled
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection 2020
Renegade X (unofficial) EA

Key points

Small but dedicated community

General information

EA's Official Command & Conquer site
Official Forums
Command & Conquer Wiki - A wiki for everything Command & Conquer-related

Availability

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Essential improvements

Patches

Official

  • v1.037 - Required to play online. It can be downloaded from here.

Fan-Made and Community Patches

Scripts 4.0 Patch

Scripts 4.0 is a massive fan made patch by Tiberian Technologies that implements numerous bug fixes, anti-cheating measures, and new features to the game. This patch does not require the official v1.037 patch to be applied first.

It can be downloaded from http://www.tiberiantechnologies.org/downloads

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

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In-game graphics settings.

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Input settings

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In-game key map settings.
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In-game mouse settings.

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Audio settings

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In-game audio settings.

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Issues fixed

Menu Text Does Not Appear

In some cases, starting the game will bring you to the main menu, but will not display the menu choices and other text in the game.

Press Escape to exit Renegade, and restart your computer.

Can't Get Past Renegade Config Popup

This is typically caused due to misconfigured graphics settings. Make sure your graphics card drivers are up to date.

Select Your Graphics Card

In the Renegade Config dialog, select your primary graphics card in Renegade Config before clicking OK.

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System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 400 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 950 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8.1 compatible
16 of VRAM