General information
- The Retail version of the game lacks an FPS limiter or vsync and causes a lot of bugs and physical glitches with frame rates above 60 FPS, although it can be fixed by forcing Vsync from the game's configuration files.
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Edit ini setting[citation needed]
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- Go to the installation folder.
- Open
Freedom.ini
- Change
DefaultScene=FF-Intro.gms to DefaultScene=FF-Startup.gms
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Enable Alt+F4
Edit ini setting[citation needed]
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- Go to the installation folder.
- Open
Freedom.ini
- Remove
DisableAltF4
- Not necessary for digital versions of the game.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
-
<path-to-game>\Save
is also needed and must be present to load saves.[3]
Save game data location Re-Release 2020
{{Game data|
Windows
Template:%APPDATA%\IO Interactive\Freedom Fighters\[Note 2]
Video
Widescreen fix[citation needed]
|
- Download Widescreen fix by nemesis2000.
- Extract
ff.7z files to the installation folder (password: ff).
- Edit
ff.ini to set the resolution and FOV multiplier.
Notes
- Supported exe size: 3 706 880 bytes.
- LOD distance can also be adjusted.
- Incompatible with digital releases.
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Set windowed mode[citation needed]
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- Go to the installation folder.
- Open
Freedom.ini
- Add a new line:
Window
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Set Vsync[citation needed]
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- Go to the installation folder.
- Open
Freedom.ini
- Search for the line containing
VSync . It may not already exist.
- Set Vsync with either of the following:
EnableVSync or DisableVSync
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Input
Use OS mouse acceleration instead of direct mouse input[citation needed]
|
- Go to the installation folder.
- Open
Freedom.ini
- Remove line:
UseDirectInputMouse 1
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Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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No option to disable. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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EAX support |
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A3D 2.0, EAX 3.[4] |
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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Available only in retail version |
Spanish |
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Available only in retail version. For digital version download. |
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
8.1 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
98, ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium III 733 MHz AMD Athlon 800 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
650 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce 256 ATI Radeon DDR 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible |
System requirements 2020 Re-lease
Windows |
|
Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
Windows 10 |
Processor (CPU) |
Pentium 4 1.5Ghz or Athlon XP Equivalent |
System memory (RAM) |
512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
800 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
100% DirectX 10 compatible video card DirectX 10 compatible |
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 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:
References