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Cold War

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Cold War
Cold War cover
Developers
Mindware Studios
macOS (OS X) RuneSoft
Publishers
Windows (retail) DreamCatcher Interactive
Windows (digital) THQ Nordic
OS X RuneSoft
Linux Linux Game Publishing
Engines
Meng
Release dates
Windows September 27, 2005
macOS (OS X) July 31, 2006
Linux August 4, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 64
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Stealth
Art styles Realistic
Themes Cold War, Europe
Cold War on HowLongToBeat
Cold War on IGDB
Cold War on MobyGames
Cold War on Wikipedia

Cold War is a singleplayer third-person stealth game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3.6.10.03 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
Steam
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Cold War\Config.txt
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260650/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Cold War\Saves\
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260650/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry. Launch the game at least once to create Config.txt in the Documents Cold War folder and copy it to the Cold War root folder.
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
See the WSGF entry. Menus, text, HUD and UI don't scale and become small.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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)
On by default, can be switched off through the GPU control panel.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 100 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, speech, effect
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Retail only. link #1
French
German
Russian
Russian voice acting is not listed in the Steam store
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Kernel 2.2, Glibe 2.1, XFree86 4.3
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 450 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.1 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU) 1.7 GHz
System memory (RAM) 384 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3
ATI Radeon 8500
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX is not supported.


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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>/260650/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (260650) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References