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Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30	2005
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood	2005
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway	2008

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v4 DRM^{[Note 1]}
Retail		Only in Hungary.

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Steam		Not available in Germany
Ubisoft Store		Included with Ubisoft+.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

The Brothers in Arms Collection (released in Europe) is DRM-free and all 3 games have the latest patches integrated.^[3]

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.11 is the latest version.

Mods

Rendroc's WarZone - A list of stunning improvements ranging from a command mode similar to Hell's Highway and more effective AI to massive single player bot matches.

Skip intro videos

Instructions^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\Media\` Delete or rename `LEGAL_EN.lte` and `Logos.bik`.

Fix texture flickering, physics issues, EAX, mouse (tested with Steam version)

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Running this game without having made any modifications leads to flickering textures and major physics problems.

Instructions^{[citation needed]}

Create a shortcut from the game executable in the game "System" folder (bia.exe).
Use shortcut to set compatibility mode to Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Set run as administrator (not sure if this step is absolutely necessary).
Use the Task Manager or better something like Process Lasso to set game executable (bia.exe) CPU affinity to a single core, preferably not the first core (core 0) as the windows system uses that.
Edit User.ini file in %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>\
Set MouseSmoothingMode to 0.
Set bEnableEAX to true.
Edit bia.ini in same folder.
Set DesiredRefreshRate to the refresh rate of your monitor.
Set UseDefaultDriver to false (Star Wars Republic Commando - same engine - "This tells the Unreal Audio Engine to load OpenAL32.dll from the \windows\system32 folder which will result in a native OpenAL being used." - https://web.archive.org/web/20130702030043/http://connect.creativelabs.com/alchemy/Lists/Games/AllItems.aspx

Crash with garbled screen when changing resolution

Windows 10 (and possibly other versions) will also give the error "Application bia.exe blocked access to graphics hardware". This crash seems to be caused due to the intro videos.

Instructions^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open bia.ini.
Edit the following to desired resolution (they should all have the same resolution, eg. X=1920, Y=1080)

WindowedViewportX=
WindowedViewportY=
FullscreenViewportX=
FullscreenViewportY=
MenuViewportX=
MenuViewportY=

Follow the Skip intro videos steps.
You should now be able to launch the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15190/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15190/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

In-Game video settings.

In-Game performance settings.

Template:Video settings

Field of view (FOV)

Edit User.ini^[4]

Go to %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>\
Open user.ini.
Define FoV in following lines:

DesiredFOV=63.000000
DefaultFOV=63.000000

Notes

Game could start to randomly reset those values. If so, edit those values in <path-to-game>\system\DefUser.ini too.

Input settings

In-Game input remapping.

In-Game key remapping.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

DefOpenAL32.dll works as DirectSound3D driver which can be used with DSOAL to restore EAX.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Hungarian				Official translation for Steam and Uplay version here, also a fan translation is available
Italian
Russian				Only in retail version. Patch for digital release here
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play		4
Online play

Connection types

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

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	40000-43000
UDP	44000, 45000, 45001

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz AMD Athlon 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	64 MB of VRAM

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.5.8	10.6.2
Processor (CPU)	Intel 1.4 GHz	Intel 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3.6 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM	512 MB of VRAM

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 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>/15190/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15190) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

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
↑ Amazon.com - Brothers in Arms Collection - last accessed on 2020-11-13
↑ WSGF article

[3] 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]

[Proton_path_note-5] 2.0 ^2.1 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>/15190/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15190) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[2] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[4] Amazon.com - Brothers in Arms Collection - last accessed on 2020-11-13

[6] WSGF article

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+  |notes     = Official translation for Steam and Uplay version [https://mega.nz/file/pa4AyTrL#Iuasn6I7NYMi1HCKOFD2ThjYWDGcnoROxPeArE4j1yo here], also a fan translation is [https://magyaritasok.hu/download/259/brothers-in-arms-road-to-hill-30 available]
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+  |notes     = Only in retail version. Patch for digital release [https://www.playground.ru/brothers_in_arms_road_to_hill_30/file/brothers_in_arms_road_to_hill_30_rusifikator-1050395 here]
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Developers

	Gearbox Software
Publishers
Windows	Ubisoft
OS X	Feral Interactive
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows	March 15, 2005
macOS (OS X)	March 15, 2005
Reception
Metacritic	87
IGDB	92