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SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle

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SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle
SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle cover
Developers
Sierra Northwest
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Release dates
Windows November 23, 1999
SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle on Wikipedia
Police Quest
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel 1987
Police Quest II: The Vengeance 1988
Police Quest III: The Kindred 1991
Police Quest: Open Season 1993
Police Quest: SWAT 1995
Police Quest: SWAT 2 1998
SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle 1999
SWAT 4 2005

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Performance improvement

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  1. Download dgVoodoo2 from [1]
  2. Extract D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll to the installation folder, where swat.exe is located.

Enhance AI

The amount of time the AI has to determine its actions can be safely increased on modern computers beyond the normal 20ms maximum for much-improved AI.
Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Windowed

Windowed mode requires 16-bit color mode.
Available only in 800x600.
DxWnd and Windowed Borderless Gaming can be used together to force borderless window mode.
Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
TGOTY : only in english.
French

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Versus, Co-op
Online play
Versus, Co-op

Issues unresolved

Low performance on Windows 8

Low performance on Windows 8 systems is commonly reported. Launching the game in windowed mode may solve the problem, at the cost of the game running in 800x600 window.
See the Windowed section in this article for information specific to this game.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000, ME
Processor (CPU) Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) 800x600 SVGA high color (16 bit)
8 MB of VRAM

References