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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
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Developers
Relic Entertainment
Publishers
Sega
Release dates
Windows September 20, 2004
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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Key points

Expansions are highly modifiable and several high quality mods are available.
Dawn of War and its expansion, Winter Assault, share game files.
Multiplayer is still possible using LAN VPN services such as GameRanger or Hamachi.
Dawn of War previously used GameSpy, support for which was discontinued at the end of 2012 due to their takeover.

General information

Steam Users' Forums for game series
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

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Improvements

Higher resolution models

These enhancements are significantly more performance intensive. Ensure your PC is significantly more powerful than the recommended system specifications to ensure there is no loss of performance.
Instructions
Instructions
Instructions

Game data

Template:Game Location Table

Take note that the save files for Retail version can appear in two different folders. These files and locations are not interchangeable (i.e. the files from AppData do not load correctly if pasted into the Program Files location and vice versa).

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Widescreen resolution

This fix works only for versions 1.2 and 1.3. This will NOT work for Steam version because it is patched to 1.51. You can still use this fix and get game run in your native resolution, but game will be in 4:3 with black bars on sides.
Instructions

Field of view (FOV)

This fix will greatly enhance zoom capabilities.
Instructions

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Instructions

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Forcing AA will render fonts blurry and harder to read.
Forcing AA via graphics driver will result in greater AA. INI fix is probably only 2x AA.
Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB DirectX 9.0b compatible AGP video card with Hardware Transform and Lighting