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Warnings

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

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

Key points

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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Program\Bin^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\Content\System^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Content\Saves^{[Note 1]}

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Edit INI files^[1]

Base game

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open DefTribesGUIState.ini.
Add or Adjust the following lines accordingly to your resolution

ScreenResolutionChoices=800x600
ScreenResolutionChoices=1024x576
ScreenResolutionChoices=1024x768
ScreenResolutionChoices=1280x720
ScreenResolutionChoices=1280x1024
ScreenResolutionChoices=1366x768
ScreenResolutionChoices=1600x1200
ScreenResolutionChoices=1920x1080
ScreenResolutionChoices=2560x1440
ScreenResolutionChoices=3840x2160

Field of view (FOV)

Edit ini file^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `User.ini` (make sure you have run the game at least once). Go to class `[Engine.PlayerController]`. In this section adjust both `DesiredFOV=85.000000` and `DefaultFOV=85.000000`.

Windowed

Edit ini file^{[citation needed]}

Open TV_CD_DVD.ini within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once)
Find Suppress=WindowedMode and comment it (put a ; at beginning of the line)

Notes

You can toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode with Alt+↵ Enter now

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit ini file^{[citation needed]}
Open `TV_CD_DVD.ini` within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Go to class `[D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]`. In this section adjust line `LevelOfAnisotropy=1` (maximum is 16).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit ini file^{[citation needed]}
Open `TV_CD_DVD.ini` within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Go to class `[D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]`. In this section find `UseVSync=False` which can be set to true to enable v-sync

High frame rate

Edit ini file^{[citation needed]}
Open `TV_CD_DVD.ini` within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Go to class `[D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]`. In this section adjust line `DesiredRefreshRate=60`

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Mouse acceleration

Edit User.ini^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open User.ini (make sure you have run the game at least once)
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

[Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis

Mouse sensitivity

Edit User.ini^{[citation needed]}

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

[Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play		GameSpy services have been shut down;^[2] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Multiplayer	GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98SE	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 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

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 When 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).

References

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 When 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).

[2] , SWAT 4 Widescreen Mod (Gold Edition)

[3] Pricing | GameSpy Technology

[Note 1]

[1]

[2]

@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 {{Infobox game/row/date|Windows|October 5, 2004}}
 |steam appid  =
-|gogcom page  =
+|gogcom id    =
 |strategywiki =
 |wikipedia    = Tribes: Vengeance
@@ Line 46: / Line 46: @@
 ==Video settings==
 {{Video settings
-|wsgf link                  = http://www.wsgf.org/dr/tribes-vengeance
+|wsgf link                  = https://www.wsgf.org/dr/tribes-vengeance
 |widescreen wsgf award      = silver
 |multimonitor wsgf award    = unsupported
@@ Line 52: / Line 52: @@
 |4k ultra hd wsgf award     = incomplete
 |widescreen resolution      = hackable
-|widescreen resolution notes= See the [http://www.wsgf.org/dr/tribes-vengeance WSGF entry].
+|widescreen resolution notes= See the [https://www.wsgf.org/dr/tribes-vengeance WSGF entry].
 |multimonitor               = false
 |multimonitor notes         =
@@ Line 60: / Line 60: @@
 |4k ultra hd notes          =
 |fov                        = hackable
-|fov notes                  = 85°, {{term|Vert-}}. See [[#Field of view (FOV)|Field of view (FOV)]] or [http://www.wsgf.org/dr/tribes-vengeance WSGF entry].
+|fov notes                  = 85°, {{term|Vert-}}. See [[#Field of view (FOV)|Field of view (FOV)]] or [https://www.wsgf.org/dr/tribes-vengeance WSGF entry].
 |windowed                   = hackable
 |windowed notes             = See [[#Windowed|Windowed]].
@@ Line 304: / Line 304: @@
 |shader model versions  =
 |shader model notes     =
-|64-bit executable      = false
+|windows 32-bit exe     = true
-|64-bit executable notes=
+|windows 64-bit exe     = false
+|windows exe notes      =
+|macos 32-bit app       =
+|macos 64-bit app       =
+|macos app notes        =
+|linux 32-bit executable=
+|linux 64-bit executable=
+|linux executable notes =
 }}

Developers

	Irrational Games
Publishers
	Sierra Entertainment
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows	October 5, 2004