Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six	1998
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear	1999
Rainbow Six: Covert Operations Essentials	2000
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn	2001
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield	2003
Rainbow Six: Lockdown	2005
Rainbow Six: Vegas	2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2	2008
Rainbow Six Siege	2015

Key points

The official online multiplayer service is no longer available^[1]

Poor compatibility with modern systems

Cannot use Alt+Tab ↹ while in-game

General information

Rainbow Six Wiki

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v1.00.026 DRM^{[Note 1]}
GOG.com
Uplay

SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Demo

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Name	Notes
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Patch 1.04 is the latest patch available for the game].

Skip intro videos[edit]

The executable DevicePicker.exe can be run to skip intro videos.

Files can also be deleted manually by emptying the folder:

<path-to-game>\data\video

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six\^{[Note 2]}
Mac OS (Classic)

Key bindings are stored in the sherman.kmp file (located at <path-to-game>)

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\data\save^{[Note 3]}
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Uplay

Video settings[edit]

External options menu.

In-game options menu.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See 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

Software renderer for Eagle Watch renders fully opaque windows that enemies can see through.

Windowed[edit]

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Change the FullScreen entry value from TRUE to FALSE.

Input settings[edit]

In-game key map settings.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		High DPI causes negative acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity		See Mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Mouse sensitivity[edit]

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Change the MouseRadiansPerPixel entry value.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Briefing only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
Spanish				Fan translation, download.

Network[edit]

In-game multiplayer settings.

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	2346
UDP	2346

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

Issues fixed[edit]

Windows 10 crash at Start-Up[edit]

Go to the game installation folder and rename/delete winmm.dll

Black screen[edit]

A black screen can sometime occur when running the game. This may be caused by not being able to run cinematics correctly. Skip intro videos to fix this issue.

Crashes at Start-up[edit]

If the game is crashing, error reports can be found in the Sherman.log file

Renderer::CreateBuffers() failed[edit]

If you see the message Renderer::CreateBuffers() failed during ClearBuffers() : Blt() in file C:\Develop\Common\Renderer\renderer.cpp at line 1330 Error = "An exception was encountered while performing the requested operation." in your Sherman.log file and you are using an Nvidia card, try updating your drivers. This issue is known to occur when using the 331.40 beta drivers and is known to be resolved by upgrading to the 331.65 release drivers.

Renderer::Fullscreen() failed[edit]

If you see the message Renderer::Fullscreen() failed during Renderer::SetDisplayMode() in file C:\Develop\Common\Renderer\renderer.cpp at line 1244 Error = "Operation requires the application to have exclusive mode but the application does not have exclusive mode." in your Sherman.log file and you are using an ATI/AMD card, there are currently three possible fixes:

Methods 1 & 2[edit]

For the optimal experience, either roll back the display driver to a version prior to 13.4 or run the game in a virtual machine with Windows XP.

Method 3[edit]

Setup the game compatibility settings^{[citation needed]}

Setup the game to play in a window.
Right click on the RainbowSix.exe file (located in <path-to-game>) and select "Properties".
Go to the "Compatibility" tab and enable Reduced Colour Mode (set to 16-bit), along with "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and "Run this program as an administrator".
Launch the game.

Invisible NPCs[edit]

You may come across missions where the victory conditions won't trigger. For instance, in mission 5, "Ghost Dance", there are supposed to be 5 hostages, but you might only see 4 actually rendered in the level. The 5th will appear on your map but not in the level. The only way to fix this is to modify the victory conditions for the level:

Modify the mission victory conditions file^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>\data\mission and open the specific mission victory conditions text file with a text editor (ex. Notepad).
- The text files will include the mission number and the difficulty in the name (for this fix, look for the VicCondM5Med.txt file)
In the file, find the following text block:

// Condition 0: Rescue the hostages
HUMAN_CLASS_CONDITION HOSTAGES
DESCRIPTION VC_GEN_RESCUE_ALL_HOSTAGES
  GOAL_TYPE PRIMARY_GOAL
  HAS_REACHED_EXTRACTION_ZONE 1
  NUMBER ALL
  RESULT SUCCESS

3. Change the "NUMBER ALL" portion to "NUMBER 4"
4. Save the changes and launch the game.

Note that for this fix, Mission 5 on medium difficulty will allow the mission to be completed with the 4 hostages rendered. To apply the fix to other difficulty levels, modify the respective text files.

This fix can be applied to any level with similar victory conditions (ex. If the condition is "kill all terrorists" and the level fails to load some of the terrorists)

Software Rendering[edit]

The software renderer in Eagle Watch doesn't support transparent windows, while the main game used a semi-transparent grill to show windows instead. The result is that enemies can see and kill through windows.

This only affects old systems without a 3D accelerator.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6
OpenGL		Mac OS only.
Software renderer
64-bit executable

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Smacker
Multiplayer	Mplayer.com

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	57 MB	380 MB
Video card (GPU)	2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible

Notes

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[2] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[3]
↑ When running this game without Administrator elevation, 32-bit programs writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node (more details).
↑ When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

References

↑ Discontinued Online Multiplayer Server List - Ubisoft Support
↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[4] SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[2] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[3]

[HKLM-5] When running this game without Administrator elevation, 32-bit programs writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node (more details).

[gamedir-6] When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

[1] Discontinued Online Multiplayer Server List - Ubisoft Support

[2] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[3] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

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Developers

	Red Storm Entertainment
Mac OS (Classic)	Varcon Systems
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Mac OS	MacSoft
Release dates
Windows	August 21, 1998
Mac OS (Classic)	December 8, 1999