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Desert Rats Vs. Afrika Korps

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Desert Rats Vs. Afrika Korps
Desert Rats Vs. Afrika Korps cover
Developers
Digital Reality
Publishers
USA Encore Software
Europe Monte Cristo
United Kingdom Digital Jesters
United Kingdom Global Software Publishing
Japan Zoo Corporation
Russia 1C Company
Release dates
Windows March 31, 2004
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Africa, Historical, World War II
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Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Key points

Also known as Afrika Korps Vs. Desert Rats in Germany & Poland.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 2]

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[5] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1 GHz Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB

Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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