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Sid Meier's Covert Action

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Sid Meier's Covert Action
Developers

	MicroProse
Publishers
	Retroism
	Night Dive Studios
Release dates
DOS	June 3, 1990
Windows	January 16, 2014^[1]
macOS (OS X)	January 16, 2014^[1]
Linux	July 24, 2014^[2]

General information

Covert Action Wiki

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Entire game can be copied to the hard drive.
GOG.com		Pre-packaged with DOSBox.^[3]
Steam

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

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Save game data location

System	Location
DOS
Windows	<path-to-game>\Covert\CV*.SVE^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	, Tandy, , MCGA,

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2.0	3.0
Processor (CPU)	Intel 8088
System memory (RAM)	512 KB	640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 KB of VRAM

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17
Processor (CPU)	2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ 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).

References