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Original War

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Original War
Original War cover
Developers
Altar Games
Original War Support[1]
Publishers
Virgin Interactive
Bohemia Interactive
Release dates
Windows June 15, 2001
macOS (OS X) November 15, 2013[2]
Original War on Wikipedia

General information

Official game site
Original War Support - The officially sanctioned fan site for the game
Original War Support Wiki
Original War Support Discord
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)
LaserLock DRM.
Windows
Steam
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Windows
The OS X version is no longer available.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch for the game can be found on the Original War Support site.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/235320/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\UserProfiles[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/235320/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
12
Online play
12

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 113
UDP 27963
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
OpenGL 2.1, 3.0 Requires game version 2.0.0.0 or later.[3]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 2
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0a compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Original War Support - About - last accessed on 2019-11-12
  2. Mac Game Update: 34 New Additions ● GOG.com
  3. Original War Support - Patches - last accessed on 2019-11-12
    "Added: OpenGL Renderer (98% Complete)"