Ground Control
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Developers | |
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Massive Entertainment | |
Dark Conspiracy | High Voltage Software[1] |
Publishers | |
Retail | Sierra Entertainment |
Digital | Rebellion Developments |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 1, 2000 |
Ground Control | |
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Ground Control | 2000 |
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus | 2004 |
Key points
- Ground Control has been released as a free download.
General information
- Ground Control Veterans
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SecuROM DRM. | |||
GamersGate | Ground Control Anthology. | |||
GamersGate | Ground Control Anthology. Also bundled with the sequel. | |||
GOG.com | Ground Control Anthology | |||
Steam | Ground Control Anthology | |||
ZOOM Platform |
- The base game has been released as a free download in order to promote the sequel.
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Dark Conspiracy |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\data\games\settings.dat[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254820/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\data\games\game*[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254820/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video settings
Widescreen resolution
Use Ground Control Resolution Changer[citation needed] |
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Instructions[2] |
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Notes
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Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 8 | |||
Online play | 8 |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 15001, 15101, 15200, 20000-21000, 25000-25499 |
UDP | 20000-21000 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues fixed
Poor framerate on Windows 8
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Near-illegible text and buttons when using downscaling
- If Dynamic Super Resolution or Virtual Super Resolution is used to achieve 4K resolutions, the game's text and buttons will become nearly illegible due to the downsampling involved.
Use dgVoodoo2[3] |
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Notes
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Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98, ME | 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 233 MHz | Intel Pentium II 333 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 465 MB | 1.5 GB |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible |
- The game has software rendering mode, which may have lower system requirements.
- Windows 98 and ME are only supported with the original ATI Radeon, ATI Radeon 7200, and Nvidia video cards
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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (254820) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ High Voltage Software Additional Games
- ↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2016-06-30
- ↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2016-06-06