Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
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Developers | |
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Ubisoft Montreal | |
Publishers | |
Ubisoft | |
OS X | Aspyr Media |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 2 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | February 19, 2003 |
macOS (OS X) | September 29, 2004 |
Warnings
- The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
Splinter Cell | |
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Subseries of Tom Clancy | |
Splinter Cell | 2003 |
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow | 2004 |
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory | 2005 |
Splinter Cell: Double Agent | 2006 |
Splinter Cell: Conviction | 2010 |
Splinter Cell: Blacklist | 2013 |
General information
- Official Forums
- Splinter Cell Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]. | |||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | ||||
Ubisoft Store |
Demo
- A demo is available here. It includes parts from Police Station and Kalinatek missions.
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest patch is 1.3. Digital distribution versions are already patched.
HD Textures from the PS3 version
Instructions[3] |
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Notes
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Bonus Missions
- Download the archive from here.
- Extract the archive and copy the folders to the game installation folder.
Skip intro videos
Instructions[4] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\system\[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13560/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\<user-id>[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13560/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Ubisoft Connect |
Video settings
Widescreen resolution
Use ThirteenAG's Widescreen Fix[3] |
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Notes
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Field of view (FOV)
- Use either this or ThirteenAG's Widescreen Fix or the FOV will be too wide.
Edit SplinterCellUser.ini[5] |
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Notes
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Anti-aliasing (AA)
Override AA settings[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Force MSAA using dgVoodoo 2[3] |
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Notes
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Force SMAA using ReShade[3] |
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Notes
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Vertical sync (Vsync)
Edit SplinterCell.ini[3] |
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Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
Italian | ||||
Russian | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. | |||
Spanish | Retail version, download. |
Issues unresolved
Sounds stop playing
- Sometimes when quicksaving or entering the menu (OPSAT) some looped sounds, like clock ticking or water running, can stop playing.
Instructions[3] |
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Vselka Infiltration - Stuck in control room
- In Vselka Infiltration mission after using the laptop in the control room the player can't get out, because the closed doors never open, since enemies that should open them can get stuck in the stairway.
Instructions[7] |
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Issues fixed
Broken shadows
- Due to relying on now-obsolete functionality in Nvidia GPUs, the default "buffer" shadows are broken on modern hardware.
Force projector shadows
- The game, when tweaked, supports projection shadows, which work on modern hardware.
Launch the game with -shadowmode=projector parameter[3] |
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Edit SplinterCell.ini[8] |
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Use dgVoodoo2 with default buffer shadows
Use dgVoodoo2[8] |
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Notes
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Stuttering during gameplay
Set splintercell.exe affinity to 1 CPU core[citation needed] |
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Lights bleed through walls
Lights will bleed through the walls if you manually add Anti Aliasing to the game via Nvidia control panel (which you can noticeably see in the training level by looking at the walls to your left and right.) You can get ride of most of the bleeding by using your Night Vision and turning it off, but to get rid of all the bleeding you must disable AA through the control panel. |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 | |
Shader Model support | 1.4 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
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Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Dolby Digital | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 800 MHz AMD Athlon 800 MHz |
Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.5 GB | 2.1 GB |
Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 64 MB of VRAM |
- Supported ATI chipsets: Radeon 7500, 8500, 9000, 9500, 9700
- Supported Nvidia chipsets: GeForce 256, GeForce2 Ti/Ultra/Pro/GTS/MX400/MX, GeForce3 series, GeForce4 series
- The Matrox Parhelia is also supported
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]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 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 (13560) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Verified by User:Antrad on September 21, 2017
- ↑ Verified by User:aaronth07 on 2017-9-05
- ↑ Splinter Cell | WSGF
- ↑ Dege's stuffs - dgVoodoo test results
- ↑ Ubisoft Forums - Splinter Cell Vselka Infiltration bug
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Verified by User:Expack3 on 2016-09-14
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