Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn
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Developers | |
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Red Storm Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Ubisoft | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 15, 2001 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 67 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person, Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Contemporary |
Series | Rainbow Six |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Subseries of Tom Clancy | |
Rainbow Six | 1998 |
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear | 1999 |
Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials | 2000 |
Rainbow Six: Take-Down | 2001 |
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn | 2001 |
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield | 2003 |
Rainbow Six: Lockdown | 2006 |
Rainbow Six: Vegas | 2006 |
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 | 2008 |
Rainbow Six Siege | 2015 |
Rainbow Six Extraction | 2022 |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Black Thorn is the second expansion pack for the 1999 tactical shooter Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear. Unlike Urban Operations, it does not require the base game to play.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1] in European releases. Simple disc check in North American releases. |
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest official patch is v2.61, available from Patches-Scrolls.
Skip intro videos
Uncheck Show Movies in RSConfig.exe .
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Playing the game under modern Windows
Use dgVoodoo 2[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Rogue Spear[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\data\Save\[Note 3] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
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. | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | ||
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
Spanish | Fan translation, download. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 16 | |||
Online play | 16 | The official MSN Gaming Zone has been shut down; use Voobly. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 | |
Software renderer |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Multiplayer | MSN Gaming Zone |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, 2000 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 266 MHz | Intel Pentium III |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 650 MB | 1 GB |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible | 16 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details. - ↑ 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
- ↑ 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