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Global Operations

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Global Operations
Global Operations cover
Developers
Barking Dog Studios
Publishers
Crave Entertainment
Electronic Arts
Engines
LithTech
Release dates
Windows March 25, 2002
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
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Warnings

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected releases).
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Global Operations is a first-person tactical shooter video game developed by Barking Dog Studios and co-published by Crave Entertainment and Electronic Arts.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
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 and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Widescreen resolution

Edit config file[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Global\profile.
  2. Open the .cfg file with your profile name with a text editor.
  3. Find the line "screenwidth" and set to desired value, e.g. "1920".
  4. Find the line "screenheight" and set to desired value, e.g. "1080".
  5. Save the file.

Notes

Some resolutions may break the main menu.

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.0a
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP (95 and NT are not supported)
Processor (CPU) 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB - DirectX 8.0a

Notes

  1. ↑ This version of SafeDisc 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. ↑ 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