Freedom Fighters

This page is for is for the original release . For For the port of 2020, see Freedom Fighters (2020).

Freedom Fighters

Developers
	IO Interactive
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Re-Release	IO Interactive
Engines
	Glacier
Release dates
Windows	September 26, 2003
Reception
Metacritic	80
IGDB	70
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Shooter
Art styles	Realistic

General information

Game lacks an FPS limiter and may be unplayable at frame rates higher than 60 FPS.Although it can be fixed by forcing vsync from the game config files

See Frame rate capping for manually capping the framerate.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v2 DRM.

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]
Go to the installation folder. Open Freedom.ini Change DefaultScene=FF-Intro.gms to DefaultScene=FF-Startup.gms

Enable Alt+F4

Edit ini setting[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Open Freedom.ini Remove DisableAltF4

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Freedom.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Freedom Fighters\

<path-to-game>\Save is also needed and must be present to load saves.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.

Video

Graphic settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Widescreen resolution.
Windowed		Borderless. See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Frame rates higher than 60 FPS will cause issues with camera, animations, and player physics such as being able to jump or going down stairways.

Widescreen resolution

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.

Windowed

Set windowed mode[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Open Freedom.ini Add a new line: Window

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Set Vsync[citation needed]
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

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Mouse acceleration

Use OS mouse acceleration instead of direct mouse input[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Open Freedom.ini Remove line: UseDirectInputMouse 1

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		No option to disable.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		A3D 2.0, EAX 3.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French				Available only in retail version
Spanish				Available only in retail version.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	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