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America's Army

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America's Army
America's Army cover
Developers
U.S. Army
Linux Ryan C. Gordon
Engines
Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows July 4, 2002
Linux June 9, 2003
macOS (OS X) July 16, 2003
America's Army guide on StrategyWiki
America's Army on Wikipedia
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Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
America's Army
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Key points

Also titled America's Army: Operations (1.x releases) and America's Army: Special Forces (2.x releases).
Official support for the game has been dropped. The main authentication server is no longer available, rendering a majority of the game unplayable.

General information

Official game manual
25Assist Forums - Forum for the community-maintained version of the game.
Battletracker.com - A community forum mainly for the America's Army series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Windows
Official website Original installer (v2.8.3).
Windows
Official website Assist
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Version differences

Assist

A community-run version of the game, it enabled cross-platform support on modern hardware, along with re-enabling online multiplayer support with a custom authentication server.

An account with Battletracker.com was required to play.

Note that although the game was running an outdated version (2.5, as opposed to 2.8.5), it was modified to be content-equivalent to 2.8.5.

Battletracker was shut down in 2018.

Essential improvements

Patches

Assuming the latest full installer is used (v2.8.3), install the patches in the following order:

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.
In-game HUD settings.
In-game HUD settings.
In-game parental lock settings.
In-game parental lock settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\System[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
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
Windows <path-to-game>\System\Save[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 14200, 20025-20048
UDP 1716-1718, 8777, 27900
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

VR support

Devices State Notes
TrackIR
Supports: Yaw, Pitch (v2.8.2 only in HMMWV vehicle).

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 2
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Karma
Audio OpenAL
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy
Anti-cheat PunkBuster

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible 		256 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. ↑ 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).

References