Ground Control

Ground Control
Ground Control	2000
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus	2004

Key points

Ground Control has been released as a free download.

General information

Ground Control Veterans

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM DRM.
GOG.com		Ground Control Anthology.
Steam

The base game has been released as a free download in order to promote the sequel.

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Name	Notes
Dark Conspiracy

Game data[edit]

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\data\games\settings.dat^{[Note 1]}
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254820/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\data\games\game*^{[Note 1]}
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254820/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

In-game general video settings.

In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only supports 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 by default. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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)	Forced Vsync in hardware rendering, software rendering is uncapped.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	Follows display refresh rate.

Widescreen resolution[edit]

Use Ground Control Resolution Changer^{[citation needed]}

Improved successor to the below resolution changer application

Instructions^[2]

Download the following archive.
Go to the installation folder.
Extract all the files from the archive and overwrite.
Open Resolution Changer.exe, then set the desired Width and Height.
Launch the game through the Launch Ground Control.bat file.

Notes

If using Dynamic Super Resolution or Virtual Super Resolution and 4K Ultra HD, see this fix.

Input settings[edit]

In-game key map settings.

In-game mouse settings.

In-game joystick settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Game uses "software mouse". This means cursor will be laggy at lower frame rates.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Very limited modern controller support.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings[edit]

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
Spanish

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8
Online play		8

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	15001, 15101, 15200, 20000-21000, 25000-25499
UDP	20000-21000

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed[edit]

Poor framerate on Windows 8[edit]

Instructions^{[citation needed]}

Download the following archive.
Go to the installation folder, and extract the file.

Near-illegible text and buttons when using downscaling[edit]

If Dynamic Super Resolution or Virtual Super Resolution is used to achieve 4K resolutions, the game's text and buttons will become nearly illegible due to the downsampling involved.

Use dgVoodoo2^[3]

Follow all instructions for the widescreen resolution fix, ensuring width and height are set to one of the following:
1. 16:9 monitors: 1024 width, 576 height
2. 16:10/8:5 monitors: 1024 width, 640 height
3. 21:9 monitors: 1024 width, 432 height
Download the latest version of dgVoodoo2.
Extract D3Dlmm.dll and DDraw.dll to <path-to-game> from the downloaded ZIP file.
Extract dgVoodooSetup.exe to the folder of your choice from the downloaded ZIP file.
Navigate to the folder your extracted dgVoodooSetup.exe to, then run dgVoodooSetup.exe.
From the window which appears, click Add under Config folder / Running instance.
Navigate to <path-to-game> using the window which appears, then click Select Folder.
Ensure <path-to-game> is selected in the dropdown box Config folder / Running instance.
Click on the DirectX tab.
Under Resolution, select your monitor's native 4K resolution from the dropdown list.
Click on the Apply button to save the configuration, the click OK.