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American Conquest: Fight Back

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American Conquest: Fight Back
American Conquest: Fight Back cover
Developers
GSC Game World
Publishers
cdv Software Entertainment
Engines
DMCR 2
Release dates
Windows August 29, 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes North America
Series American Conquest
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American Conquest: Fight Back is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game in the American Conquest series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Cossacks World forum - For American Conquest

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Also includes the original American Conquest.
Windows
Steam
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Slightly updated for modern systems.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename cdv.avi.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115220/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115220/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings
General settings

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Spanish
Retail version; download for digital releases.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
7
Online play
7

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)[3]
TCP 2300-2400, 6667, 47624
UDP 80, 3783, 27900, 28900, 29900-29901, 13139, 2300-2400, 34000-34005, 16000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues unresolved

Retail version not working on Windows 8 and later

The retail version doesn't work properly on Windows 8 and later.[4] Digital versions do not have this problem (see Availability).

Issues fixed

Game running too fast

Running too fast[5]
Like Cossacks, the other title from GSC Game World, American Conquest features a unique engine timing system. While the games' speed is still dependant on the CPU clock, like many older titles, they offer a flexible speed setting in the options menu to enable the user to tweak the speed to his liking.
To make the game more bearable, make sure to:
  • Go to the game settings.
  • Choose "Slow Mode"
  • Decrease the "Game speed" by approximately 10%.
  • Save the settings and go play the game.
If the game is still fast, grab ACClock or CPUGrab. If the game reverts back to fast mode, press Ctrl+D in-game.

Color issues

See DirectDraw troubleshooting for solutions.

Game doesn't start

Game doesn't start[6]
If the game doesn't start:
  1. First try deleting the Video folder in the installation folder. Start the game.
  2. If you have one of the 8000 series Nvidia graphics cards, or a similar ATI card, and are running Windows XP, download this ddraw.dll and again, place it in the installation folder. Also be sure you've deleted the Video folder as in step 1. Try starting the game again.
  3. If you are running Vista or Windows 7, download dmcr.zip and extract the DMCR.exe into the folder. Try starting the game again. If this doesn't work, and you also have the ddraw.dll in the installation folder from step 2, delete ddraw.dll, and try starting the game again.
    • Antivirus software may think this is a virus, but it assuredly is not.

0% progress in LAN

This sometimes happens on Windows XP when with 3 or more players on LAN. Note that this is a workaround for this and not an actual fix.
LAN loading time[citation needed]
  1. Start your multiplayer game as usual, let all players select their nations, and then click the “Ready” button. Now choose the game settings.
  2. You will see it still sits on 0% or starts going up very, very slowly, don't panic, press Alt+Tab to go to desktop, wait a second and then go back in the game and you will see it has progressed, again Alt+Tab out of the game, wait a second and go back into the game, again it will have progressed.
  3. Keep doing this until it reaches 100%, then click begin game and there you have it! It can take around 4-5 minutes, sometimes you can stay on desktop for a couple of minutes and then go back into game if it hasn't progressed.

Mouse doesn't work

This kind of issue manifests itself on laptops using Intel Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs, and Nvidia GPUs through Optimus technology. A workaround is possible, though not guaranteed to work.
Mouse doesn't work[citation needed]
  • Try fixing this with this tutorial originally intended for Red Alert 2.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Modifications

Cossacks downloads - Registration only.
The Hawks' Forum

European Warfare: Napoleonica (HEW)

This is a mod which attempts to recreate vast Napoleon's conquests in its full glory including:
  • Battles (Trafalgar, Austerlitz, Waterloo...)
  • Factions (Poland, Austria, Prussia amongst existing ones)
  • Units (Grenadiers, skirmishers, heavy cavalry, hussars, lancers...)
Random Map AI does not work. (Except somewhat for France)
For more information on the mod check out the beginners' guide.
To be able to play both unmodded and modded game, make a copy of the installation folder.
When trying to host multiplayer games, it is advisable to forward ports (see Ports).

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Other 12x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/115220/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (115220) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  3. 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