Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War
Developers | |
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Volition | |
Publishers | |
Interplay Entertainment | |
Engines | |
CTG[1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 19, 1998 |
macOS (OS X) | January 24, 2013[2] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person, Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter, Vehicle combat |
Vehicles | Space flight |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Sci-fi, Space |
Series | Descent |
Descent | |
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Descent | 1995 |
Descent II | 1996 |
Descent 3 | 1999 |
Descent (cancelled) renamed to S.T.F.U (Ships That Fight Underground) | TBA |
Key points
- Released as Conflict: FreeSpace – The Great War in Europe.
- You can play the game with improved visuals by buying FreeSpace 2 and using it with FreeSpace Open. That way you don't have to buy Descent: FreeSpace, instead you buy the 2nd game and install the FreeSpace 1 mods for it.
General information
- Freespace Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- Source Code released[citation needed]
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Silent Threat |
Essential improvements
Patches
- 1.06 is the latest retail version. Digital distribution versions are already patched.
FSOpen
To play the game in higher resolutions, changing the FOV, enable Vsync, anti-aliasing and controller support, use the Freespace 1 Mod on the Open-Source FS2Open port with the Knossos Launcher.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Data[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/273600/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Players\Single[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/273600/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See FSOpen. | ||
Multi-monitor | See the WSGF entry. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See FSOpen. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | See FSOpen. | ||
Windowed | See FSOpen. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See FSOpen. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See FSOpen. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Launch problems
If you're not using Freespace Open and you can't use your keyboard to skip the intro movie, that means that your desktop resolution is too high. Set your desktop resolution to something like 1920x1080 and launch the game again. 4k is too high.
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Options - Control Config - pitch axis - enable invert | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | See FSOpen for modern controller support. | |
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Cutscenes not subtitled. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | A3D 1.0,[3] EAX (only available with 1.06 patch) |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German | Retail only; download for digital versions |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 12 | Co-op, Versus Disable Parallax Online in multiplayer options. |
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Online play | 12 | Co-op, Versus Parallax Online no longer functions. |
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 | 7808 |
UDP | 7808 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
- These ports are for FSOpen.
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Glide | 1.2 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 133 MHz | Intel Pentium 200 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 48 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 210 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 5.0 compatible |
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 (273600) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.