Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Act of War: Direct Action

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Act of War: Direct Action
Act of War: Direct Action cover
Developers
Eugen Systems
Publishers
2005-2018 Atari
2018-present THQ Nordic
Release dates
Windows March 15, 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Contemporary, Sci-fi
Series Act of War
Act of War: Direct Action on HowLongToBeat
Act of War: Direct Action on MobyGames
Act of War: Direct Action on Wikipedia
Act of War
Act of War: Direct Action 2005
Act of War: High Treason 2006

Warnings

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

Act of War: Direct Action is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Act of War series.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SecuROM 5 DRM.
Windows
GamersGate
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
Icon overlay.png
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Act of War: High Treason.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Singleplayer (US, EU) and multiplayer demo versions are available

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
High Treason Available as both an expansion (retail, GOG.com) and a standalone game (Steam).[1]
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2710/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\AOW\Save\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2710/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Settings.
Settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Press the Alt+ Enter key combination to toggle between windowed and full-screen mode. Otherwise, this feature doesn't appear in the Options dialog box.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Use Act of War Resolution Patch[citation needed]
Hex edit game .exe (GOG.com version)[citation needed]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\ACTOFWAR.EXE with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Find the bytes 83 C4 F4 close to Offset 0x5AE3F0 and replace them with B0 01 C3.
  3. Save changes.
Hex edit game .exe (Steam version)[citation needed]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\ACTOFWAR.EXE with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Change 83 C4 F4 89 54 24 04 with B0 01 C3 89 54 24 04
  3. Save changes.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and Sound Effects have separate sliders
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and GOG.com only.
German
Retail and GOG.com only; download for Steam release.
Italian
Retail and GOG.com only.
Spanish
Retail and GOG.com only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[2] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 12222
UDP 12222
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

The game won't launch / Invisible cursor

This problem is supposedly fixed in the Steam version.
Instructions[citation needed]

Use Proper Windows 7 Fix for Act of War

Works for Windows 10 too.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/2710/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2710) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. 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