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Moonbase Commander

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Moonbase Commander
Moonbase Commander cover
Developers
Humongous Entertainment
Publishers
Retail Infogrames
Digital Rebellion Developments
Engines
SCUMM
Release dates
Windows August 13, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 77
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Sci-fi
Moonbase Commander on HowLongToBeat
Moonbase Commander on IGDB
Moonbase Commander on MobyGames
Moonbase Commander on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Moonbase Commander is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view strategy game.

General information

Moonbase Commander Center (dead link) - A hub for Moonbase Commander news and files. Has not been updated for a while.
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check.
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1 is the latest patch available for the game and provides bug fixes.
All digital versions come with the patch pre-installed.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254880/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254880/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Locked in to 640x480 resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Press Shift+F5 to alternate between fullscreen and windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 30 FPS.[1]

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4
Online play
4 The official GameSpy multiplayer service has been shut down; use the Moonbase Console.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)[2]
TCP 2300, 47624
UDP 2350
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8.1 compatible


Notes

  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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/254880/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (254880) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References