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Freedom Fighters

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Freedom Fighters
Freedom Fighters cover
Developers
IO Interactive
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Re-Release IO Interactive
Engines
Glacier
Release dates
Windows September 26, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 80
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter, Tactical shooter, TPS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, North America
Freedom Fighters on HowLongToBeat
Freedom Fighters on IGDB
Freedom Fighters on MobyGames
Freedom Fighters on Wikipedia

Freedom Fighters is a singleplayer third-person action, shooter, tactical shooter and TPS game.

General information

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)
SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
2020 re-release
Windows
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2020 re-release
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
2020 re-release
Windows
Steam
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2020 re-release
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

dgVoodoo 2

Fixes performance issues.
Enables better HUD scaling.
Follow dgVoodoo for DirectX 8 installation instructions

Skip intro videos

Edit configuration file[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game> and open Freedom.ini.
  2. Change DefaultScene=FF-Intro.gms to DefaultScene=FF-Startup.gms.

Enable Alt+F4

Edit configuration file[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game> and open Freedom.ini.
  2. Remove DisableAltF4.

Note

Not necessary for digital versions of the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Freedom.ini[Note 2]
%APPDATA%\IO Interactive\Freedom Fighters\Freedom.ini (Re-Release 2020)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1347780/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Freedom Fighters\Profiles\*.dat
%APPDATA%\IO Interactive\Freedom Fighters\ (Re-Release 2020)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1347780/pfx/[Note 3]
<path-to-game>\Save is also needed and must be present to load saves.[5]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphic settings.
Graphic settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution for retail releases.
Natively supported in digital versions.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Ultrawide resolutions can be selected in digital versions, but image is Vert-. Use the related PCGW community tool as a workaround.
4K Ultra HD
Menus, interface and text do not scale very well at higher resolutions. Use dgVoodoo 2 to scale them.
Field of view (FOV)
See Widescreen resolution or Use the related PCGW community tool as a workaround.
Windowed
Borderless. See Windowed.
Natively supported in digital versions.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Windowed.
Natively supported in digital versions.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See Anti-aliasing (AA).
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
Frame rate is capped to 62 FPS on digital versions.
120+ FPS
Frame rates higher than 60 FPS will cause issues with camera, animations, and player physics such as being able to jump or going down stairways.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix[6]
  1. Download Widescreen fix by nemesis2000.
  2. Extract ff.7z files to the installation folder (password: ff).
  3. Edit ff.ini to set the resolution, letterbox, subtitles, level of detail distance multiplier and FOV multiplier.

Notes

Supported executable size: 3 706 880 bytes.
LOD distance can also be adjusted.
Incompatible with digital releases, as they support widescreen resolutions natively.

Windowed

Edit configuration file[7]
  1. Go to <path-to-game> and open Freedom.ini.
  2. Add a new line: Window.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

VSync is enabled by default.
Edit configuration file[8]
  1. Go to <path-to-game> and open Freedom.ini.
  2. Search for the line containing VSync. It may not already exist.
  3. Set Vsync with either of the following: EnableVSync or DisableVSync.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Edit configuration file[9]
  1. Go to <path-to-game> and open Freedom.ini.
  2. Add the line Antialias 8.
  3. Set Anti-aliasing value to the desired one.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Set anisotropic filtering[10]
  1. Go to <path-to-game> and open Freedom.ini.
  2. Add the line Anisotropy 16.
  3. Set Anisotropic filtering value to the desired one.

Input

Mouse acceleration

Use OS mouse acceleration instead of direct mouse input[11]
  1. Go to <path-to-game> and open Freedom.ini.
  2. Remove line: UseDirectInputMouse 1.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Use the nemesis2000 method to disable it. Can only be used in cutscenes.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
A3D 2.0, EAX 3.[12]
Royalty free audio
May require DirectSound3D restoration software to enable EAX and surround sound functionality on Windows Vista and later.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail only. For digital version download from here.
German
Retail only. For digital version download from DeutschPatch or CompiWare.
Italian
Retail only. For digital version download from here.
Polish
Fan translation by P.M., download.
Brazilian Portuguese
Translation.
Russian
Fan translation. Download.
Spanish
Retail only. For digital version download from here.
Turkish
Fan translation by byflash, download.

Issues fixed

Can not load save games (initialization error)

Delete a file[13]
  1. Disable Steam Cloud via game properties in the Steam library.
  2. Locate and delete steam_autocloud.vdf located in %APPDATA%\IO Interactive\Freedom Fighters\Profiles\.

Poor UI scaling

Configure dgVoodoo 2[14]
  1. Install dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 8, including the optional step.
  2. Open dgVoodooCpl.exe to launch the dgVoodoo 2 Control Panel.
  3. Click on the DirectX tab.
  4. Set the Resolution property to the desired rendering resolution.
  5. (Optional) Disable watermark by unchecking dgVoodoo 2 Watermark checkbox.
  6. Click Apply and close the dgVoodoo 2 Control Panel.
  7. Launch the game.
  8. When the launcher window appears, click on Options.
  9. Set the Resolution property to the desired value. This will be used to render the HUD/UI. 1080p is optimal for 4K displays.
  10. Click on the Save button, and launch the game as usual.

Other information

API

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

Extract music files

Instructions
  1. Download Dragon UnPACKer from official site or direct link or mirror link and install it.
  2. Run program, press Ctrl+H, select search tab, navigate to <path-to-game>, select streams.wav, press search button and press OK.
  3. Press Ctrl+A to select all files, press right-click select Extract files to... Without Convertion, and choose the desired directory. This may take a very short time.

Notes

This file contains additional sounds, effects, and dialogue from the music, but not all.
List of games supported by Dragon UnPACKer is available here.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 733 MHz
AMD Athlon 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 256
ATI Radeon DDR
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

System requirements 2020 re-release

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
Athlon XP Equivalent
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 10 compatible


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. 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/1347780/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1347780) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  2. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  3. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-08
  4. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-08
  5. GameSave Manager: Forum • View topic - Freedom Fighters - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  6. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-08
  7. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-08
  8. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-08
  9. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-08
  10. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-08
  11. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-08
  12. EAX® ADVANCED HD™ Effects in Freedom Fighters - SoundBlaster.com (retrieved) - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  13. Save/load issue - last accessed on 2023-08-21
  14. Fix for HUD/Text scaling problem at 1080p/1440p/4K resolutions