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Conflict: Desert Storm

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Conflict: Desert Storm
Conflict: Desert Storm cover
Developers
Pivotal Games
Publishers
SCi Games
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows September 13, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 56
IGDB 67
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, TPS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Middle East, Contemporary
Series Conflict
Conflict: Desert Storm on HowLongToBeat
Conflict: Desert Storm on IGDB
Conflict: Desert Storm on MobyGames
Conflict: Desert Storm on Wikipedia
Conflict
Conflict: Desert Storm 2002
Conflict: Desert Storm II 2003
Conflict: Vietnam 2004
Conflict: Global Terror 2005
Conflict: Denied Ops 2008

General information

Co-op multiplayer mode from console version is not present.[1][2]
GOG.com Community Discussions
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)
Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Running on modern systems

Install DirectPlay

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Pivotal Games\Conflict Desert Storm\Device Settings[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/211780/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\SCi\DesertStorm [Note 3]
<path-to-game>\
[Note 4]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/211780/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Settings in the launcher.
Settings in the launcher.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Use DxWnd in DirectX8
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Game runs fast

Widescreen resolution

Edit registry entries[citation needed]
  1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Pivotal Games\Conflict Desert Storm\Device Settings or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Pivotal Games\Conflict Desert Storm\Device Settings.
  2. Edit the entry ResolutionIndex and change the value to one of from a list below (decimal):
         ???        1152x864
    • 24 - 1152x648
    • 25 - 1280x768
    • 26 - 1280x720
    • 27 - 1280x800
    • 29 - 1280x1024
    • 30 - 1360x768
    • 31 - 1360x1024
    • 32 - 1364x768
    • 33 - 1440x900
    • 34 - 1600x900
    • 35 - 1680x1050
    • 36 - 1776x1000
    • 37 - 1920x1080
    • 16 - 2560x1440
    • 19 - 3840x2160

Notes

Editing graphical settings in the launcher will revert the changes.
The values above are just an example. The values differ between different setups and is a matter of trial & error.
4k has been tested only on Windows 10 fall creators update.

Input

Mouse settings.
Mouse settings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
DirectSound3D.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Retail and Muve.pl only.
Russian
Retail only
Spanish
Retail only. Download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play

Connection types

Issues fixed

Game runs too fast / Mouse too sensitive

Limit the framerate

Limit fps to around 60, for example through "Rivatuner Statistics Server". Forced VSYNC through driver settings did nothing for me.

Use dgvoodoo2 Wrapper[citation needed]
  1. Download [1] dgvoodoo2.
  2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the \MS\x86\ folder to the game install directory.
  3. Set monitor on 60hz

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio DirectSound3D

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible


Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  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>/211780/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (211780) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  3. Retail version
  4. 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

  1. co-op multiplayer, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Verified by User:Suicide machine on 9 March 2016
    There is no co-op in PC version.