Key points
- The official online multiplayer service is no longer available[1]
- Poor compatibility with modern systems
- Cannot use Alt+Tab ↹ while in-game
General information
- Rainbow Six Wiki
- Steam Community Discussions
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- Demo
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch |
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Essential improvements
Patches
Patch 1.04 is the latest patch available for the game.
Skip intro videos
The executable DevicePicker.exe
can be run to skip intro videos.
Files can also be deleted manually by emptying the folder:
<path-to-game>\data\video
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- Key bindings are stored in the
sherman.kmp
file (located at <path-to-game>
)
Save game data location
Video
- Software renderer for Eagle Watch renders fully opaque windows that enemies can see through.
- Download dgVoodoo
- Extract somewhere
- Launch dgVoodoo and press the Add button on the right of config folder and point it to the R6 folder
- General tab: appearance fullscreen,scaling mode stretched,keep aspect ratio
- DirectX tab: videocard dgVoodoo 3D, vram 1024
- Press Apply
- Go to dgVoodoo folder and open MS folder and copy the 3 files D3D8,D3Dlmm,DDraw.dll and put them in the folder where rainbowsix.exe is
- Press the windows button, type in "regedit" in search and run it, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Wow6432Node -> Red Storm Entertainment -> Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (start the game once for these entries to appear)
- Also change MouseRadiansPerPixel to 0.002727 or lower
- Change Fullscreen to TRUE
Note: There might be an issue with the mouse if the value is not correct, also mouse cursor trails gets stuck on the screen.
- Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
- Change the FullScreen entry value from
TRUE
to FALSE
.
Input
In-game key map settings.
- Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
- Change the
MouseRadiansPerPixel
entry value.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Briefing only. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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German |
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French |
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Spanish |
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Fan translation, download. |
VR support
Network
In-game multiplayer settings.
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Ports
Protocol |
Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
TCP |
2346 |
UDP |
2346 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues fixed
Windows 10 crash at Start-Up
Go to the game installation folder and rename/delete winmm.dll
Black screen
A black screen can sometime occur when running the game. This may be caused by not being able to run cinematics correctly. Skip intro videos to fix this issue.
Crashes at Start-up
- If the game is crashing, error reports can be found in the
Sherman.log
file
Renderer::CreateBuffers() failed
If you see the message Renderer::CreateBuffers() failed during ClearBuffers() : Blt() in file C:\Develop\Common\Renderer\renderer.cpp at line 1330
Error = "An exception was encountered while performing the requested operation."
in your Sherman.log file and you are using an Nvidia card, try updating your drivers. This issue is known to occur when using the 331.40 beta drivers and is known to be resolved by upgrading to the 331.65 release drivers.
Renderer::Fullscreen() failed
If you see the message Renderer::Fullscreen() failed during Renderer::SetDisplayMode() in file C:\Develop\Common\Renderer\renderer.cpp at line 1244
Error = "Operation requires the application to have exclusive mode but the application does not have exclusive mode."
in your Sherman.log file and you are using an ATI/AMD card, there are currently three possible fixes:
Methods 1 & 2
For the optimal experience, either roll back the display driver to a version prior to 13.4 or run the game in a virtual machine with Windows XP.
Method 3
Setup the game compatibility settings[citation needed]
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- Setup the game to play in a window.
- Right click on the
RainbowSix.exe file (located in <path-to-game>) and select "Properties".
- Go to the "Compatibility" tab and enable Reduced Colour Mode (set to 16-bit), along with "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and "Run this program as an administrator".
- Launch the game.
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Invisible NPCs
You may come across missions where the victory conditions won't trigger. For instance, in mission 5, "Ghost Dance", there are supposed to be 5 hostages, but you might only see 4 actually rendered in the level. The 5th will appear on your map but not in the level. The only way to fix this is to modify the victory conditions for the level:
Modify the mission victory conditions file[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\data\mission and open the specific mission victory conditions text file with a text editor (ex. Notepad).
- The text files will include the mission number and the difficulty in the name (for this fix, look for the
VicCondM5Med.txt file)
- In the file, find the following text block:
// Condition 0: Rescue the hostages
HUMAN_CLASS_CONDITION HOSTAGES
DESCRIPTION VC_GEN_RESCUE_ALL_HOSTAGES
GOAL_TYPE PRIMARY_GOAL
HAS_REACHED_EXTRACTION_ZONE 1
NUMBER ALL
RESULT SUCCESS
3. Change the "NUMBER ALL" portion to "NUMBER 4"
4. Save the changes and launch the game.
- Note that for this fix, Mission 5 on medium difficulty will allow the mission to be completed with the 4 hostages rendered. To apply the fix to other difficulty levels, modify the respective text files.
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- This fix can be applied to any level with similar victory conditions (ex. If the condition is "kill all terrorists" and the level fails to load some of the terrorists)
Software Rendering
The software renderer in Eagle Watch doesn't support transparent windows, while the main game used a semi-transparent grill to show windows instead. The result is that enemies can see and kill through windows.
This only affects old systems without a 3D accelerator.
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
6 |
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OpenGL |
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Mac OS only. |
Software renderer |
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Executable | PPC | 16-bit |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows | | |
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Mac OS (Classic) | | | |
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Middleware
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95 |
98 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 166 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) |
16 MB |
32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
57 MB |
380 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible | |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- ↑ 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