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Revision as of 18:54, 28 June 2022
Developers | |
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Gray Matter Interactive | |
id Software | |
Multiplayer | Nerve Software |
Multiplayer | Splash Damage |
Mac OS (Classic) | Westlake Interactive[1] |
macOS (OS X) | Westlake Interactive[1] |
Publishers | |
Activision | |
Mac OS | Aspyr Media |
Engines | |
id Tech 3 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 19, 2001 |
Linux | March 16, 2002 |
Mac OS (Classic) | April 29, 2002 |
macOS (OS X) | April 29, 2002 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 88 |
IGDB | 68 |
Taxonomy | |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | FPS |
Themes | Europe, World War II, Sci-fi, Fantasy |
Series | Wolfenstein |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Castle Wolfenstein | 1981 |
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein | 1984 |
Wolfenstein 3D | 1992 |
Spear of Destiny | 1992 |
Return to Castle Wolfenstein | 2001 |
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory | 2003 |
Wolfenstein | 2009 |
Wolfram (unofficial game) | 2012 |
Wolfenstein: The New Order | 2014 |
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood | 2015 |
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus | 2017 |
Wolfenstein: Youngblood | 2019 |
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot | 2019 |
RealRTCW (unofficial mod) | 2020 |
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person FPS game in the Wolfenstein series.
Key points
- Master servers for the multiplayer were shut down in February 2012. A mod, S4NDMoD, solves this problem by making the game use fans' master server.
- Engine is open source with modern ports available; see Source ports.
- Active modding community.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | Not available for purchase in Germany.[2] | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | Not available for purchase in Germany. | |||
Amazon.com (unavailable) | ||||
Bethesda.net (unavailable) |
DLC and expansion packs
- A standalone follow-up, Enemy Territory, is available as freeware.
- The PS2/XBox port of the game included a prequel mission, Cursed Sands. Additionally the Xbox port featured a new gun (Shotgun) and DLC maps. Currently, there is no known way to play this content on the PC version. See here for more info.
Name | Notes | |
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GOTY Map Pack | Sold with the Game of The Year Edition or downloadable as freeware. Not officially packaged for Mac, though can still be used on it by manually installing PK3 files. |
Essential improvements
Patches
Official
- Latest official patch for RtCW single player and RtCW multiplayer. Digital re-release already have the latest version installed.
- Both the single player and multiplayer version are separate; they are not confine with each other (version 1.33 and after is only exclusives for muiltplayer).
Unofficial
- Knightmare's 1.42d - Fixes various crashes and adds native widescreen support. It's only applied to the single-player version of RtCW.
- Bradman's Mac OS X GPL port - An GPL port fixs that allowed the game to be played on OS X 10.7 "Lion" or later, due to the removal of Rosetta. It's designed to get around the fact that the original game was PowerPC only.
Source ports
- Since the source code for Return to Castle Wolfenstein was released in August 2010, various engine overhauls and source ports have been created to enhance or modify the game in different ways.
Name | Description | |
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iortcw | Based on ioquake3; adds modern features like VOIP and OpenAL, whilst being faithful to traditional gameplay. Commonly known source port in the community. | |
Bibendovsky's RtCW | An custom source port that's designed to play all RtCW games (single-player, multiplayer, Enemy Territory) into one. |
Skip intro videos
Edit autoexec.cfg[3] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Main\[Note 1] %USERPROFILE%\Documents\RTCW\main\ |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9010/pfx/[Note 2] |
-
wolfconfig.cfg
contains single player settings. -
wolfconfig_mp.cfg
contains multiplayer settings.
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Main\save\[Note 1] %USERPROFILE%\Documents\RTCW\main\save\ |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9010/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | Default is 90. See Field of view (FOV). | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Borderless fullscreen windowed. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See Anisotropic filtering (AF). | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See Anti-aliasing (AA). | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See Vertical sync (Vsync). | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Capped at 91 FPS. See Frame rate (FPS). | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Display current frame rate
Edit autoexec.cfg[4] |
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Widescreen resolution
Configure with iortcw and autoexec.cfg[3] |
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seta r_customwidth "1920" seta r_customheight "1080" seta r_mode "-2" seta cg_fixedAspect "2" |
Alternative solution
Edit the configuration file |
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Field of view (FOV)
Configure with iortcw[3] |
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Legacy method for custom FOV
Edit the configuration file |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed
Configure with iortcw and autoexec.cfg |
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seta r_mode "-2" seta r_noborder "1" seta r_fullscreen "0" |
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Set with iortcw and autoexec.cfg |
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seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic "1" seta r_ext_max_anisotropy "16" |
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Set with iortcw |
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Force with Nvidia Profile Inspector |
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Frame rate (FPS)
Set with iortcw and autoexec.conf[3] |
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Vertical sync (Vsync)
Edit config file |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Disabled by default. Use cl_mouseAccel 1 in the console to enable. |
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Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Toggle crouch
Edit autoexec.cfg[5] |
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set duck "+movedown; set crouchToggle vstr stand; echo ^3Crouching...^7" set stand "-movedown; set crouchToggle vstr duck; echo ^2Standing...^7" set crouchToggle "vstr duck" bind c "vstr crouchToggle" |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | Stereo output only.[6] 7.0 with iortcw. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | For iortcw, see Mute on focus lost. | |
EAX support | iortcw has support for OpenAL Soft, which can be used for binaural HRTF mixing.[7] |
Mute on focus lost
Set with iortcw |
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Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | Retail only. | |||
German | Retail and GOG.com only; download for Steam release. | |||
Hungarian | Fan translation, download. | |||
Italian | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. | |||
Polish | Fan translation; download. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation, download. | |||
Russian | Unofficial translation by «Fargus Multimedia». Text, sound. | |||
Spanish | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | |||
Online play | Use rtcwcoop for co-op. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP | Use connect [IP address here] in the console. |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 28960 |
UDP | 27960 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. |
Issues unresolved
Setup won't install the game
- For the retail version, setup won't install the game if the selected disk drive has a capacity of more than 2TB.
Secrets and/or treasures not registered as found
- Observed with GoG version using iortcw 64-bit: Loading the autosave from the beginning of the level and starting over, can help.
Issues fixed
Enlarged upper left corner of screen
- Increasing the game resolution above 800x600 causes the upper left corner of the game to take up the entire screen. One reason is that game detects a 3dfx driver (possibly caused by nGlide).
Edit wolfconfig.cfg[8] |
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Frame rate drops on modern machines
Edit autoexec.cfg |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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OpenGL | 1.1 | |
Glide | 2 |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | Use iortcw for 64-bit support. | ||||
macOS (OS X) | 32-bit requires Bradman's Mac OS X GPL port or iortcw. | ||||
Linux | Use iortcw for PowerPC and 64-bit support.[10] | ||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | DirectSound | OpenAL Soft in iortcw |
Anti-cheat | PunkBuster | [citation needed] |
Modifications
These mods are made by the RtCW community to enhanced the gameplay with modern improvement.
Modernized Mods
RTCW Venom Mod
- - General graphic and AI update, unchanged gameplay:
- HD textures and bug fix, overhaul effects for SP/MP;
- Restored unused assets and AI actions;
- Possibility to play overhauled AI or correct vanilla AI;
- Universal compatibility with every OS/mobile/VR and Rtcw mods/applications.
RealRTCW
- - Based on iortcw source port. Overhaul improvement of RtCW; active update. Provides QOL features including:
- New weapons; rebalanced weapons characteristics.
- Rebalanced gameplay and overhauled AI.
- New HQ textures, sounds and models.
- Restored cut content.
- Remade Weapons - Adds realism to weapons.
- Realistic Sound Mod - Adds new sounds to weapons so that they're sounded accurately to their real-life counterpart.
- Remade Icons - Updates UI and fixed icons windows.
- Remade Hints - Updates UI and fixed hints windows.
- Ps2 Hud - HUD from PS2 RTCW Operation Resurrection.
- WPK 2020 - HD Weapon texture pack.
MP Mods
- S4NDMoD - Multiplayer-only mod that focuses on fixing exploits and adding necessary features to RTCW multiplayer. A list of features can be found here. Due to the master server being down, this mod is the best solution to make server browser work again.
Install iortcw
Download and install iortcw[3] |
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Disable view bob
Edit wolfconfig.cfg |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 OSR2 | NT 4.0 SP6, 98, ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | AMD Athlon Intel Pentium II 400 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0a compatible |
- Supported chipsets: 3dfx Voodoo 3 or higher, ATI Rage 128/128 Pro, ATI Radeon, Matrox G400, Nvidia Riva TNT and TNT2, all Nvidia GeForce chips
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 9.2 | |
Processor (CPU) | Power Mac G3 500 MHz PowerBook G4 |
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System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon Nvidia GeForce |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.1 | |
Processor (CPU) | Power Mac G3 500 MHz PowerBook G4 |
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System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon Nvidia GeForce |
Notes
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 2.0 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.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/9010/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (9010) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aspyr: Return to Castle Wolfenstein goes Gold | Macworld
- ↑ RELEASE: QUAKE II + III, WOLFENSTEIN 3D, RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN - GOG.com News
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Verified by User:Mazky on 2020-10-24
- ↑ cg_drawFPSetconfig | etconfigm Verified by User:Mazky on 2020-10-25
- ↑ Toggle Crouch for RTCW, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
- ↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up
- ↑ Return to Castle Wolfenstein w/ 3D spatial sound in iortcw 🎧 (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio)
- ↑ SOLVED: Can't run the game above 800x600. Upper left corner of the screen enlarged - Steam Community Discussions
- ↑ https://github.com/id-Software/RTCW-SP/blob/70951bc71b730efe6bcb07db7ae76ef0c4ae7c14/src/renderer/tr_init.c#L866
- ↑ Debian -- Details of package rtcw in buster - last accessed on 2020-12-12