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Red Eclipse

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Red Eclipse
Red Eclipse cover
Developers
Quinton Reeves
Lee Salzman
Publishers
Quinton Reeves
Engines
Tesseract
Release dates
Windows March 25, 2011
macOS (OS X) March 25, 2011
Linux March 25, 2011
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Multiplayer
Red Eclipse on MobyGames

Key points

Free and open source.

General information

Red Eclipse Website
Official Forum
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Source code available via the GitHub repository.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Red Eclipse\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/redeclipse/
Linux $HOME/.redeclipse/
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Red Eclipse\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/redeclipse/
Linux $HOME/.redeclipse/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings
Display settings
Display settings
Audio settings
Audio settings
Gameplay settings
Gameplay settings
Control settings
Control settings
User interface settings
User interface settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
The engine uses Vert- FOV scaling. FOV is set to 100 by default; adjust the FOV to be around 106 (see FOV notes below).
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Adjust the FOV to be around 120 (see FOV notes below).
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Configurable with the /firstpersonfov and /thirdpersonfov commands.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
FPS is limited to the monitor refresh rate by default, even if Vsync is disabled. Enter /maxfps 0 in the chat box to disable the FPS cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Can be changed in the settings. The /pitchsensitivity and /yawsensitivity console commands can also be used to adjust the sensitivity on a single axis.
Mouse input in menus
The /mousesensitivity console command can be used to adjust the mouse sensitivity in menus.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
128
Online play
128

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Run the server binary found in the Red Eclipse installation folder.
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Enter /connect [IP] [port] in the chat box.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 28800 and 28801
This game does not support Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

Support

The Discussion area can be helpful in solving your problems.
The game's IRC channel (webchat) is a source of live support.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 3.3
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[1]
Linux
[2]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT


References

  1. redeclipse - last accessed on 27 March 2022
  2. Debian -- Details of package redeclipse in buster - last accessed on 2020-12-17