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Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War

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Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War
Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War cover
Developers
Volition
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Engines
FreeSpace engine
Release dates
Windows March 19, 1998
macOS (OS X) January 24, 2013[1]
Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War guide on StrategyWiki
Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War on Wikipedia
Descent
Descent 1995
Descent II 1996
Descent 3 1999
Descent (upcoming) TBA

Key points

Released as Conflict: FreeSpace – The Great War in some countries.
Source Code released

General information

Freespace Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Silent Threat
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

1.06 is the latest retail version. Digital distribution versions are already patched.

FSOpen

To play the game in higher resolutions, changing the FOV, enable Vsync, anti-aliasing and controller support, use the Freespace 1 Mod on the Open-Source FSOpen.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/273600/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Players\Single[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/273600/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

In-game multiplayer settings.
In-game multiplayer settings.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
12 Co-op, Versus
Disable Parallax Online in multiplayer options.
Online play
12 Co-op, Versus
Parallax Online no longer functions.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 7808
UDP 7808
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
These ports are for FSOpen.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Glide 1.2
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 210 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5.0 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/273600/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (273600) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References