Return to Castle Wolfenstein
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Developers | |
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Gray Matter Interactive | |
id Software | |
Multiplayer | Nerve Software |
Multiplayer | Splash Damage |
Mac OS (Classic) | Westlake Interactive[1] |
macOS (OS X) | Westlake Interactive[1] |
Publishers | |
Activision | |
Mac OS | Aspyr Media |
Engines | |
id Tech 3 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 19, 2001 |
Linux | March 16, 2002 |
Mac OS (Classic) | April 29, 2002 |
macOS (OS X) | April 29, 2002 |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Castle Wolfenstein | 1981 |
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein | 1984 |
Wolfenstein 3D | 1992 |
Spear of Destiny | 1992 |
Return to Castle Wolfenstein | 2001 |
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory | 2003 |
Wolfenstein | 2009 |
Wolfram (unofficial game) | 2012 |
Wolfenstein: The New Order | 2014 |
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood | 2015 |
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus | 2017 |
Wolfenstein: Youngblood | 2019 |
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot | 2019 |
RealRTCW (unofficial mod) | 2020 |
Key points
- Master servers for the multiplayer were shut down in February 2012. A mod, S4NDMoD, solves this problem by making the game use fans' master server.[citation needed]
General information
- Official Wolfenstein series site
- Wolfenstein Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Wolfenstein game made.
- 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 | ||||
Amazon.com | ||||
Bethesda.net | ||||
GOG.com | Not available for purchase in Germany.[2] | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | Not available for purchase in Germany. |
DLC and expansion packs
- A standalone follow-up, Enemy Territory, is available as freeware.
- The PS2/XBox port of the game included a prequel mission, Cursed Sands. Additionally the Xbox port featured DLC maps. Currently, there is no known way to play this content on the PC version. See here for more info.
Name | Notes | |
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GOTY Map Pack | Sold with the Game of The Year Edition or downloadable as freeware. Not officially packaged for Mac, though can still be used on it by manually installing PK3 files. |
Essential improvements
Source ports
Name | Notes |
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iortcw | Adds modern features like VOIP and OpenAL, whilst being faithful to traditional gameplay. |
Unofficial Patch by Knightmare | Fixes various crashes and adds native widescreen support. |
RtCW Mac OS X | Designed to get around the fact that the original game was PowerPC only and would not run on OS X 10.7 "Lion" or later due to the removal of Rosetta. |
Bibendovsky's RtCW | Source port for all RtCW games (single-player, multiplayer, Enemy Territory). |
Skip intro videos
Edit wolfconfig.cfg[3] |
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Modernizing Mods (iortcw)
- Venom Mod and HD Texture Pack (RealRtCW) - updates textures and shaders. Minor overlap in content but fills out each others missing pieces.
- Remade Weapons and Realistic Sound Mod - adds much needed realism to weapons.
- Remade Icons and Remade Hints - updates UI.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Main\[Note 1] %USERPROFILE%\Documents\RTCW\main\ |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9010/pfx/[Note 2] |
-
wolfconfig.cfg
contains single player settings. -
wolfconfig_mp.cfg
contains multiplayer settings.
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Main\save\[Note 1] %USERPROFILE%\Documents\RTCW\main\save\ |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9010/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud |
Video settings
Widescreen resolution
Set with iortcw[3] |
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Edit the configuration file |
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Field of view (FOV)
Set with iortcw[3] |
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Edit the configuration file |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed
Set with iortcw[3] |
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Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Set with iortcw[3] |
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Anti-aliasing (AA)
Set with iortcw[3] |
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Frame rate (FPS)
- Stamina and weapon overheating bars logic are tied to FPS.
Set with iortcw[3] |
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Vertical sync (Vsync)
Set with iortcw[3] |
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Input settings
Toggle crouch
Edit autoexec.cfg[4] |
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set duck "+movedown; set crouchToggle vstr stand; echo ^3Crouching...^7" set stand "-movedown; set crouchToggle vstr duck; echo ^2Standing...^7" set crouchToggle "vstr duck" bind c "vstr crouchToggle" |
Audio settings
Mute on focus lost
Set with iortcw[3] |
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Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Fan translation. | |||
Italian | ||||
Russian | Unofficial translation by «Fargus Multimedia». Download: text, sound. | |||
Spanish | Retail version, download. |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | |||
Online play | Use rtcwcoop for co-op. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP | Use connect [IP address here] in the console. |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 28960 |
UDP | 27960 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues fixed
Enlarged upper left corner of screen
- Increasing the game resolution above 800x600 causes the upper left corner of the game to take up the entire screen. One reason is that game detects a 3dfx driver (possibly caused by nGlide).
Edit wolfconfig.cfg[5] |
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Frame rate drops on modern machines
- This game is not coded/optimized to run on modern graphics cards, resulting in frame rate drops on some modern machines. This fix changes the method used to submit rendering draw calls.[6]
Edit wolfconfig.cfg[3] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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OpenGL | 1.1 | |
Glide | 2 |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | Use iortcw. | ||||
macOS (OS X) | |||||
Linux | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Anti-cheat | PunkBuster | [citation needed] |
Disable view bob
Edit wolfconfig.cfg[3] |
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Mods
S4NDMoD
- S4NDMoD is a mod that focuses on fixing exploits and adding necessary features to RTCW multiplayer. A list of features can be found here. Due to the master server being down, this mod is the best solution to make server browser work again.
RealRTCW
- RealRTCW is a SP mod based on iortcw. New weapons, improved sounds and visuals, rebalanced gameplay, new difficulty system.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 OSR2 | NT 4.0 SP6, 98, ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | AMD Athlon Intel Pentium II 400 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0a compatible |
- Supported chipsets: 3dfx Voodoo 3 or higher, ATI Rage 128/128 Pro, ATI Radeon, Matrox G400, Nvidia Riva TNT and TNT2, all Nvidia GeForce chips
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.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/9010/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (9010) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aspyr: Return to Castle Wolfenstein goes Gold | Macworld
- ↑ RELEASE: QUAKE II + III, WOLFENSTEIN 3D, RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN - GOG.com News
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Verified by User:Keith on 2017-11-23
- ↑ Toggle Crouch for RTCW, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
- ↑ SOLVED: Can't run the game above 800x600. Upper left corner of the screen enlarged - Steam Community Discussions
- ↑ https://github.com/id-Software/RTCW-SP/blob/70951bc71b730efe6bcb07db7ae76ef0c4ae7c14/src/renderer/tr_init.c#L866