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Dangerous Waters

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Dangerous Waters
Dangerous Waters cover
Developers
Sonalysts Combat Simulations
Publishers
Strategy First
Release dates
Windows February 7, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control, Point and select, Voice control
Genres Simulation, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Naval/watercraft
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
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General information

GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Released on 2 CDs.
Windows
Publisher website
DRM details are not known
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows

Essential Improvements

Patches

The latest version of the game is V104

Jiri Dvorak's Wrapper

Allows graphics to be drawn on Windows 8 and newer.

DxWnd

Allows widescreen resolution

Enable Mouse Cursor

Fix the mouse cursor being locked to the screen's center
  1. Open the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit dangerouswaters.ini with a text editor.
  3. Change ".Software Cursor" from "No" to "Yes"

Skip Intro Videos

Skip splashscreen, intro videos, and credits
  1. Open the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit dangerouswaters.ini with a text editor.
  3. Change "SkipOpening", "SkipCredits", and "SkipMovies" from "No" to "Yes"

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1600/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1600/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024 only. Potential fix (only stretches window)
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
See dangerouswaters.ini in game folder.
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)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Unlocked
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

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
French
Retail and ZOOM Platform only.
German
Retail only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Readme.txt has info on configuring multiplayer.
Online play
No server browser, direct connection only.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 550 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 590 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b compatible


Notes

  1. 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).
  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>/1600/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1600) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References