This page is for the original 2001 version. For the 2015 re-release, see Worms World Party Remastered.
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
General information
- Unofficial Worms Wiki
- Worms Knowledge Base
- Dream17 Softography
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- A demo is available.
Essential improvements
Patches
WWP Compatibility Fix
- DirectDraw emulation is broken in Windows 7 and later, breaking graphics and lowering performance.
- Fixes bug where unable to type name in multiplayer and all graphical issues.
Install the WWP Compatibility Fix[3]
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- Make sure to remove all other fixes first to prevent any possible conflicts.
- Download the WWP Compatibility Fix
- Extract the contents from the
.zip file into the installation folder <path-to-game>
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- There are other alternative workarounds for the palette problems; see DirectDraw troubleshooting for details.
Game data
Configuration file location
Save game data location
- Teams and singleplayer progress are stored in
<path-to-game>\User\Teams\WG.WWP
- Saved landscapes are stored in
<path-to-game>\User\SavedLevels
- Saved schemes are stored in
<path-to-game>\User\Schemes
Video
- ReSolution plugin
- Supports resolutions up to 32767x32767
- Letterboxing starts at sizes greater than 6012x2902 for open-island maps, and 1916x854 for closed-cavern maps
- Supports multi-monitor setups and zooming with the alternative windowed hack (see below) and manually adjusting the total screen resolution in the settings file
- Alt+↵ Enter will optionally switch between borderless fullscreen window fill and a nonfullscreen window.
- Install the unofficial WWP Compatibility Fix.
- To enable windowed mode, set
WindowedInGame
(for the gameplay process) and/or WindowedFrontend
(for the pre-game menu screens to 1
in the settings file).
- Windowed mode resolves the color issues and improves performance on modern systems.
- Can be combined with the ReSolution plugin to change the window dimensions, zoom and resize the game
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
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Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Short of worm responses, there is no speech. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Uses DirectSound defaults. Can be force-disabled using the Windowed hack with UseFGCGetForegroundWindow" set to 1 in the .ini file. |
Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Danish |
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Dutch |
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French |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Fan translation. |
Hebrew |
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Italian |
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Polish |
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Local retail version only. |
Russian |
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Spanish |
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Swedish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Ports
- No port information; you can edit this page to add it.
- This game supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.
Other information
API
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95, 98, ME, 2000 | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 100 MHz
| Intel Pentium 200 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
300 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
4 MB of VRAM | |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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