CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect
Developers | |
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Asobo Studio | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Hip Games |
Digital | Funbox Media |
Engines | |
Zouna[1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 24, 2005 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Key points
- Known as Special Forces: Nemesis Strike in North America and CT Special Force: Nemesis Strike on Xbox.
- Seems to lack either an FPS limiter or Vsync. Externally capping the framerate to 60FPS may be necessary to prevent odd behaviors.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] | |||
GamersGate | ||||
Steam | ||||
ZOOM Platform |
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Instructions |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\User.tsc[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/283410/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Savegame\[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/283410/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | 16:10 only. See the WSGF topic for 16:9 resolutions. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | See the WSGF topic. Causes in-game messages to become small. Use dgVoodoo 2 to scale them. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | FPS seems to be uncapped however anything over 60 FPS can cause the game to run too fast. You can cap the FPS in your GPU control panel. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | Cursor is restricted to a skewed 4:3 box in the main menu. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | All controllers are unbound by default and require manual binding to all the controls. | |
Full controller support | Launcher and in-game menus require mouse input, pausing can be bound to the controller but unpausing requires keyboard or mouse input. | |
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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Generic/other controllers | Generic DirectInput controllers are supported. | |
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Button prompts |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
XInput controllers
To get identical controls to the PS2 version, bind them as the following:
Action List - Secondary Roll / Zoom - in First Person Perspective - Y
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | Retail only. | |||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Choppy animations
- It's unknown what exactly causes this issue.
Restart your computer |
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Game runs too fast
- This issue is caused by having the game run at a high FPS.
Cap the FPS using MSI Afterburner or your GPU control panel to 60 FPS |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98, 2000, Me, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz | Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz AMD Athlon 1.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB (98, Me), 256 MB (2000, XP) | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3.5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 7500 Series Matrox Parhelia DirectX 9 compatible | Nvidia GeForce 5000 Series ATI Radeon 9000 Series |
Other | 16X CD-ROM |
Notes
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[2][3][4][5] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 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.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/283410/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (283410) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.