Tribes: Vengeance

Tribes: Vengeance

Developers
	Irrational Games Australia
Publishers
Retail	Sierra Entertainment
Digital	Hi-Rez Studios
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows	October 5, 2004
Reception
Metacritic	83
Taxonomy
Monetization	Freeware
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Tribes

Tribes
Subseries of Metaltech
Starsiege: Tribes	1998
Tribes 2	2001
Tribes: Vengeance	2004
Tribes: Ascend	2012
Tribes 3: Rivals	2024

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Tribes: Vengeance is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person action and FPS game in the Tribes series.

The game was re-released for free by Hi-Rez Studios in 2015.

General information

Tribalwar

Subreddit

Fan site with download

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 5 DRM.
Official website

Essential improvements

Patches

The official v1.01 patch can be found on Patches-Scrolls.

Tribes: Revengeance

Unofficial patch with various fixes, a new server browser master server, mods, maps and more.

Tribes: Vengeance 2017 Community Build

Alternative to Revengeance with similar feature set.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Program\Bin <path-to-game>\Content\System

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Content\Saves

Video

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution and the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor			See Widescreen resolution and the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen			See Widescreen resolution and the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD			See Widescreen resolution and the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)		85° by default. See Field of view (FOV) or WSGF entry to change it.
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		See Run the game at screen refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Edit INI files

Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open DefTribesGUIState.ini. Add or adjust the following lines: ScreenResolutionChoices=800x600 ScreenResolutionChoices=1024x576 ScreenResolutionChoices=1024x768 ScreenResolutionChoices=1280x720 ScreenResolutionChoices=1280x1024 ScreenResolutionChoices=1366x768 ScreenResolutionChoices=1600x1200 ScreenResolutionChoices=1920x1080 ScreenResolutionChoices=2560x1440 ScreenResolutionChoices=3840x2160 Notes Vert-; FOV should be increased to compensate.

Field of view (FOV)

Edit ini file
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open User.ini (run the game at least once if not found). Go to class [Engine.PlayerController]. In this section adjust both DesiredFOV=85.000000 and DefaultFOV=85.000000. Notes Weapon FOV stays the same.

Windowed

Edit ini file
Open TV_CD_DVD.ini within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (run the game at least once if not found). Find Suppress=WindowedMode and comment it (put a ; at beginning of the line). Notes Toggling between fullscreen and windowed mode with Alt+↵ Enter should now be possible.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit ini file
Open TV_CD_DVD.ini within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (run the game at least once if not found). Go to class [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]. In this section, adjust line LevelOfAnisotropy=1 (maximum is 16).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit ini file
Open TV_CD_DVD.ini within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (run the game at least once if not found). Go to class [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]. In this section, find UseVSync=False and set it to true.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Enabled by default. See Mouse acceleration to disable it.
Mouse sensitivity		See Mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Mouse acceleration

Edit User.ini

Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open User.ini (run the game at least once if not found). Add the following lines at the bottom: [Engine.PlayerInput] bInvertMouse=False MouseSmoothingMode=0 MouseSmoothingStrength=0.000000 MouseSensitivity=1.00000 MouseSamplingTime=0.001 MouseAccelThreshold=0.000000 DoubleClickTime=0.200000 Notes [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis.

Mouse sensitivity

Edit User.ini
Set in-game sensitivity slider to 1.00 Calculate your sensitivity for UT2004 on mouse-sensitivity.com Edit your User.ini with a text editor: [Engine.Input] MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0 MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0 [Engine.PlayerInput] MouseSensitivity=1.00000 Notes [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound, Music, Speech.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 with Creative ALchemy
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		Setting UseEAX=True in TV_CD_DVD.ini only adds reverb to cutscenes.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		32
Online play		32	The official GameSpy service has been shut down; see Essential improvements for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Maximum selectable refresh rate is 60 Hz. This does not limit FPS, but may set the monitor's refresh rate to 100 Hz, which may result in screen tearing on a 120 or 144 Hz monitor.

Set fullscreen refresh rate
Go to <path-to-game>\Program\Bin. Open TV_CD_DVD.ini. Find the line DesiredRefreshRate=60. Change the value to your monitor's refresh rate, for example 120 or 144. Notes Modifying any video options will undo the custom refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	OpenAL
Multiplayer	GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98SE, 2000, ME	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium IV 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz	Intel Pentium IV 2.5 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 7200 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB of VRAM
Other	4X CD-ROM	24X CD-ROM