Project Nomads
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Developers | |
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Radon Labs | |
Publishers | |
Europe | Cdv Software Entertainment |
United Kingdom | Empire Interactive |
Russia | 1C Company |
Engines | |
Nebula Device | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 27, 2002 |
macOS (OS X) | 2005 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 62 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Strategy, Vehicle combat |
Vehicles | Flight |
Art styles | Stylized |
Themes | Steampunk |
Warnings
Project Nomads is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action, strategy and vehicle combat game.
Availability
Essential improvements
Patches
- The newest patch is 1.2 (Also known as Patch #2). Patches for the game can be found here.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | |
macOS (OS X) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Run\save\[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Only 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 by default. 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) | Doesn't work on Windows 10 without using a wrapper, such as dgVoodoo 2.[1] | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Without VSync, frame rate is uncapped.[1] |
Widescreen resolution
Hex-editing
- Custom resolutions can be used by editing
<path-to-game>\Run\bin\win32\nnomads.dll
with a Hex-Editor.
Instructions[2] |
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Modding
- A mod that adds support for specific widescreen resolutions can be found on Nexusmods.
Instructions[2] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | |||
Online play | GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D User created profile, requires dgVoodoo2, see profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | ||||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Multiplayer | GameSpy |
Mods
Upscaled Textures
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98, ME, 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 450 MHz | Intel Pentium III 1 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 850 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM | 64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Verified by User:Eddmanx on 2023-09-28
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Verified by User:Nessy on 2020-11-28
- ↑ Pricing | GameSpy Technology