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Syndicate Wars

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Syndicate Wars
Syndicate Wars cover
Developers
Bullfrog Productions
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Magic Carpet
Release dates
DOS October 31, 1996
Windows March 21, 2013[1]
macOS (OS X) May 9, 2013[2]
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Syndicate Wars on Wikipedia
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General information

Syndicate Wiki - a wiki dedicated to the syndicate game series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
 Use DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Syndicate Wars Port

A fan-created source port, it allows the game to be run natively on modern operating systems.

Note that it is not feature complete, and lacks networking and joystick support. Also, the original game files are required to use it.

Full details and the download can be found on the official website.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\SWARS[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\SWARS\QDATA\SAVEGAME[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.
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Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Template:Video settings

Input settings

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

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Swedish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
8 Using DOSBox IPX tunneling; the GOG.com version is pre-configured.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes SVGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 6.0 6.22
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 DX2 66 MHz Intel Pentium 75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 55 MB 95 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA
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 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

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).

References