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Developers | |
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Mac OS (Classic) | i5works[1] |
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Mac OS | |
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Windows | November 13, 2001 |
Mac OS (Classic) | November 1, 2002 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 80 |
IGDB | 68 |
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon | |
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Subseries of Tom Clancy | |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon | 2001 |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter | 2006 |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 | 2007 |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | 2012 |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms | 2014 |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands | 2017 |
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint | 2019 |
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability[edit]
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1] | |||
GOG.com | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | ||||
Ubisoft Store | Included with Ubisoft+. |
- SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes |
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Desert Siege | Mac OS version is only available in the Game of The Year Pack. |
Island Thunder | Can be made to run on Mac by following the instructions found here. |
Game data[edit]
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>options.xml[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15300/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>ModsOrigmisssave[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15300/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing[edit]
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Ubisoft Connect |
Video[edit]
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Use Widescreen Fixer. Menu is always 640x480. | ||
Multi-monitor | Use Widescreen Fixer. See also the WSGF entry. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Use Widescreen Fixer. | ||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Borderless fullscreen windowed. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Can be forced by graphics card drivers. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Can be forced by graphics card drivers. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Enabled by default. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Windowed[edit]
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Input[edit]
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Seems to be turned off by default, no option to turn on. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
Audio[edit]
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, effects, music and voice. | |
Surround sound | Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software. | |
Subtitles | Important messages are still displayed in text, but don't match speech. | |
Closed captions | Despite this, source of attacks are shown from the compass. | |
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 2.0. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | Only retail | |||
Spanish |
VR support[edit]
3D modes | Native | Notes |
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vorpX | G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum. |
Network[edit]
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes |
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LAN play | 36 | ||
Online play | 36 |
Issues fixed[edit]
Failed to start game (app already running) error[edit]
- Additional symptom: Task Manager (or Process Explorer) shows the game appear in the task list, but it closes immediately.
Restart Steam[citation needed] |
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Screen flickering[edit]
Custom DLL[citation needed] |
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Instructions[citation needed] |
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Vsync (Enable by default) not working on Windows10[edit]
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Other information[edit]
API[edit]
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Middleware[edit]
Middleware | Notes |
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Audio | DirectSound3D |
System requirements[edit]
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | 450 MHz Pentium 2 or equivalent | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible |
Notes
- ↑SafeDisc retail DRMdoes 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]
- ↑ 2.02.1When 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). - ↑ 3.03.1File/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>/15300/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15300) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑Aspyr gets ready to ship four new games - Macworld - last accessed on 2016-7-23
- ↑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
Bob Savage <bobsavage@mac.com>
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