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Act of War: Direct Action

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Act of War: Direct Action
Act of War: Direct Action cover
Developers
Eugen Systems
Publishers
Atari
Release dates
Windows March 15, 2005
Act of War: Direct Action on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Act of War
Act of War: Direct Action 2005
Act of War: High Treason 2006

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 5 DRM.
Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Act of War: High Treason.
Windows
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Singleplayer (US, EU) and multiplayer demo versions are available

Essential improvements

Patches

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2710/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\AOW\Save\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2710/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Settings.
Settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Use Act of War Resolution Patch[citation needed]
Hex edit game .exe (GOG.com version)[citation needed]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\ACTOFWAR.EXE with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Find the bytes 83 C4 F4 close to Offset 0x5AE3F0 and replace them with B0 01 C3.
  3. Save changes
Hex edit game .exe (Steam version)[citation needed]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\ACTOFWAR.EXE with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Change 83 C4 F4 89 54 24 04 with B0 01 C3 89 54 24 04
  3. Save changes

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 12222
UDP 12222
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

The game won't launch/not visible cursor

Copy into game folder Proper Windows 7 Fix for Act of War
Works for Windows 10 too.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/2710/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2710) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. 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