Vietcong
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Developers | |
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Pterodon | |
Illusion Softworks | |
Publishers | |
Gathering of Developers | |
Engines | |
Ptero Engine II | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 26, 2003 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 74 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter |
Themes | Cold War, Asia |
Series | Vietcong |
Vietcong | |
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Vietcong | 2003 |
Vietcong 2 | 2005 |
Warnings
Availability
- Not available digitally.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Fist Alpha | ||
Red Dawn | Free |
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.3
- Patch 1.41
- Patch 1.60
- Patches are incremental and need to be installed in order.
- Patch 1.6 is required to use VCStarter.
Launcher
- VCStarter 1.5.1
- VCStarter 1.65.1
- VCStarter 1.7 Beta (requires 1.65.1)
- Allows playing the game properly on modern operating systems.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Cfg\[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Use VCStarter to fix aspect ratio. May cause visual glitches. | ||
Multi-monitor | Use VCStarter to fix aspect ratio. May cause visual glitches. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Use VCStarter to fix aspect ratio. May cause visual glitches. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Uncheck "Fullscreen" in the launcher and use SRWE. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Force in graphics card control panel or use VCStarter with "Improve texture filtering". | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Forcing in graphics card control panel may cause blackscreen in menu. Use VCStarter for MSAA. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Only Triple Buffer is available in the game's launcher. Force actual Vsync in graphics card control panel. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Excessively high frame rates result in minimal delay player movement. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 2.0 | |
Royalty free audio | Combination of original and licensed music. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Fan translation, download. | |||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 64 | Co-op, Versus |
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Online play | 64 | Co-op, Versus The official GameSpy service has been shut down; see Online play. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Online play
- After applying this fix, the game uses a new master server so the in-game server list can be populated.
- This will break online fixes for other GameSpy games that rely on the same master address.
Run script to update hosts file automatically[1] |
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Edit hosts file manually[1] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8.1 | VCStarter uses D3D9. |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Multiplayer | GameSpy |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 500 MHz AMD Athlon 500 MHz |
Intel Pentium III 700 MHz AMD Athlon 700 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.8 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 32 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).