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# Right click on Return To Castle Wolfenstein in your Steam library and click properties.
 
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Revision as of 00:19, 23 November 2017

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein
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Developers
Gray Matter Interactive
id Software
Multiplayer Nerve Software
Multiplayer Splash Damage
Publishers
Activision
Mac OS Aspyr Media
Engines
id Tech 3
Release dates
Windows November 19, 2001
Linux March 16, 2002
Mac OS (Classic) April 2002
macOS (OS X) April 2002
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein guide on StrategyWiki
Return to Castle Wolfenstein on Wikipedia
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⤏ Go to series page
Castle Wolfenstein 1981
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein 1984
Wolfenstein 3D 1992
Spear of Destiny 1992
Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2001
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 2003
Wolfenstein 2009
Wolfram (unofficial game) 2012
Wolfenstein: The New Order 2014
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood 2015
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 2017
Wolfenstein: Youngblood 2019
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot 2019
RealRTCW (unofficial mod) 2020

Key points

Master servers for the multiplayer were shut down in February 2012. A mod S4NDMoD solves this problem, by making the game use fans' master server.

General information

Official Wolfenstein series site
Wolfenstein Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Wolfenstein game made.
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
CD key
Windows
Mac OS
Amazon.com
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Not available for purchase in Germany.[1]
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

DLC and expansion packs

A standalone follow-up, Enemy Territory, is available as freeware.
The PS2/XBox port of the game included a prequel mission, Cursed Sands. Additionally the Xbox port featured DLC maps. Currently, there is no known way to play this content on the PC version. See here for more info.
Name Notes
GOTY Map Pack Sold with the Game of The Year Edition or downloadable as freeware.
Not officially packaged for Mac, though can still be used on it by manually installing PK3 files.
Windows
Linux

Essential improvements

Source ports

Unofficial Patch by Knightmare[2] that fixes various crashes and adds native widescreen support. Technically a source port.
Another Unofficial patch, though for OS X, by Brad Oliver.[3] Designed to get around the fact that the original game was PowerPC only and would not run on OS X 10.7 "Lion" or later due to the removal of Rosetta.
ioRTCW adds modern features like VOIP and OpenAL, whilst being faithful to traditional gameplay.
Bibendovsky's RtCW another source port, also supports expansion Enemy Territory.

S4NDMoD

A mod that focuses on fixing exploits and adding necessary features to RTCW multiplayer. A list of features can be found here. Due to master server being down, this mod is the best solution to make server browser work, again. Mod can be downloaded, here.

Skip intro videos

Use launch parameter[citation needed]

Use the command line argument +set com_introplayed 1

Game data

In-game HUD settings.
In-game HUD settings.

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9010/pfx/[Note 1]
wolfconfig.cfg contains single player settings.
wolfconfig_mp.cfg contains multiplayer settings.
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9010/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.

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Widescreen resolution

The Source ports should already add support for common resolutions in the in-game options.
Using console commands[citation needed]
  1. Launch the game and open the console with ~ or \.
  2. Use these console commands in the following order, replace the width and height with your resolution.
\r_customwidth 2048
\r_customheight 1152
\r_mode -1
\vid_restart

Notes

In order to change the FOV see Field of view (FOV) for more information.
This solution works for both the Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes.
Manually through a config file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open wolfconfig.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Replace the width and height with your resolution.
seta r_customwidth "2048"
seta r_customheight "1152"
seta r_mode "-1"

Field of view (FOV)

Use launch parameter[citation needed]

Use the command line arguments +set sv_cheats 1 +set cg_fov X, where X is your horizontal FOV value.

Use console command[citation needed]
  1. Launch game with +set sv_cheats 1 parameter.
  2. Start a new game or load a a previous save.
  3. Open console, by pressing ~ and type in: cg_fov X where X is your horizontal FOV value.
Change FOV in multiplayer[citation needed]
  1. Create or join a server.
  2. Open console, by pressing ~ and type in: cg_fov X where X is your horizontal FOV value.

Notes

It is recommended, not to launch multiplayer game with sv_cheats 1 attribute. This can be problematic, when using Steam version, since it doesn't allow to specify separate launch attributes for singleplayer and multiplayer.

Frame rate (FPS)

Use launch parameter[citation needed]

Use the command line argument +set com_maxfps X or console command /com_maxfps X, where X is your desired frame rate cap.

Input settings

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

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Toggle crouch

Add lines to config[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Main\
  2. Open autoexec.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Add the following lines (change c to whatever you want).
set duck "+movedown; set crouchToggle vstr stand; echo ^3Crouching...^7"
set stand "-movedown; set crouchToggle vstr duck; echo ^2Standing...^7"
set crouchToggle "vstr duck"
bind c "vstr crouchToggle"

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Can play coop with RTCWCoop.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Use connect [IP address here] in the console.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 28960
UDP 27960
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Enlarged Upper Left Corner of Screen

Increasing the game resolution above 800x600 causes the upper left corner of the game to take up the entire screen. One reason is that game detects a 3dfx driver (possibly caused by nGlide).

Edit wolfconfig.cfg[5]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open wolfconfig.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Search for the line seta r_glIgnoreWicked3D "0"
  4. Change "0" to "1"
  5. Save the changes.

Frame Rate Drops On Modern Machines

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is not coded/optimized to run on modern graphics cards, resulting in framerate drops on some modern machines.

Set launch option (Steam version Only)[citation needed]
  1. Right click on Return To Castle Wolfenstein in your Steam library and click properties.
  2. Click "Set Launch Options" and enter the following, +set r_primitives 2
  3. Press okay to save changes

Notes

This fix changes the method used to submit rendering draw calls.[6]
Type command in console[citation needed]
  1. Launch Return to castle wolfenstein and open the console using ~.
  2. Type the following, /r_primitives 2
  3. Press ↵ Enter and close the console.

Other information

Disable view bob

Edit wolfconfig.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open wolfconfig.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Find the lines:
seta cg_bobup "0.005"
seta cg_bobpitch "0.002"
seta cg_bobroll "0.002"

and change their values to "0".

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL
Glide
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 OSR2 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon
Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.1 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
OpenGL compatible
DirectX 8.0a compatible
Supported chipsets: 3dfx Voodoo 3 or higher, ATI Rage 128/128 Pro, ATI Radeon, Matrox G400, Nvidia Riva TNT and TNT2, all Nvidia GeForce chips

Notes

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

References