General information
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- 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).
- A free demo version is available.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Eagle Watch |
Missing from digital releases. |
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Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.04 is the latest patch available for the game.
Skip intro videos
Disable the setting in DevicePicker.exe
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Move, delete or rename files
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\data .
- Move, delete or rename the
video folder
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- Key bindings are stored in
<path-to-game>\sherman.kmp
.
Save game data location
Video
- Software renderer for Eagle Watch renders fully opaque windows that enemies can see through.
Input
In-game key map settings.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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CD Music, Sound FX, Radio. |
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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Royalty free audio |
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Red Book CD audio |
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On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Retail only. |
Spanish |
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Fan translation, download. |
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.
VR support
Issues unresolved
Software rendering
The software renderer in Eagle Watch does not 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.
Issues fixed
Windows 10 crash at start-up
Black screen
A black screen can sometimes occur when running the game. This may be caused by not being able to run cinematics correctly.
Crashes at Start-up
- If the game is crashing, error reports can be found in
Sherman.log
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Renderer::CreateBuffers() failed
If 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."
is shown in Sherman.log
and an Nvidia card is used, try updating the 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.[citation needed]
Renderer::Fullscreen() failed
If 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."
is shown in Sherman.log
and an ATI/AMD card is used, use either of the following methods:
Method 1: Roll back the display driver to a version prior to 13.4 if applicable[citation needed]
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Method 2: Set up the game compatibility settings[citation needed]
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- Set up the game to play in a window.
- Right-click on
RainbowSix.exe and select "Properties".
- Go to the Compatibility tab and apply the following settings: 16-bit color mode, "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings", "Run this program as an administrator".
- Launch the game.
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Invisible NPCs
- There are some missions where the victory conditions will not trigger. For instance, in mission 5 (Ghost Dance), there are supposed to be 5 hostages, but the player might only see 4 actually rendered in the level. The 5th one will appear on the map but not in the level. The only way to fix this is to modify the victory conditions for the level.
- This fix can be applied to any level with similar victory conditions (e.g. if the condition is "kill all terrorists" and the level fails to load some of the terrorists).
Set the data folder as read-only, except for plan and save subfolders, since the game's engine changes files.[citation needed]
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Modify the mission victory conditions file[4]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\data\mission and open the specific mission victory conditions text file with a text editor.
- The text files will include the mission number and the difficulty in the name (for this fix, look for
VicCondM5Med.txt ). In the file, find the NUMBER ALL portion below the Condition 0: Rescue the hostages section.
- Change it from
ALL to 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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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[1] 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.[2]
- ↑ 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