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Revision as of 10:37, 20 January 2017

Ground Control
Ground Control cover
Developers
Massive Entertainment
Dark Conspiracy High Voltage Software[1]
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Rebellion Developments
Release dates
Windows June 1, 2000
Ground Control on Wikipedia
Ground Control
Ground Control 2000
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus 2004

Key points

Ground Control has been released as a free download.

General information

Ground Control Veterans
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Ground Control Anthology.
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
The base game has been released as a free download in order to promote the sequel.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Dark Conspiracy
Windows

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254820/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254820/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game joystick settings.
In-game joystick settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
8

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 15001, 15101, 15200, 20000-21000, 25000-25499
UDP 20000-21000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Poor framerate on Windows 8

Instructions

Near-illegible text and buttons when using downscaling

If Dynamic Super Resolution or Virtual Super Resolution is used to achieve 4K resolutions, the game's text and buttons will become nearly illegible due to the downsampling involved.
Instructions

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 465 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0a compatible
The game has software rendering mode, which may have lower system requirements.
Windows 98 and ME are only supported with the original ATI Radeon, ATI Radeon 7200, and Nvidia video cards

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References