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Revision as of 08:59, 19 January 2022

Revolution
Revolution cover
Developers
Fun Labs
Publishers
Activision
Release dates
Windows October 8, 2002
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter
Themes Cyberpunk, Sci-fi
Revolution on MobyGames

Warnings

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

Revolution is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action and shooter game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Revolution\Cfg\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Revolution\Save\[Note 1]

Video

Video Settings.
Video Settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched from 4:3 aspect ratio.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Default is 90° (horizontal). Can be changed using cam_fov X console command (where X is a horizontal FOV value as integer). FOV resets to default after cutscenes.
Windowed
Window is borderless. If the display mode was changed from Fullscreen to Windowed - the window will be always on top (starting the game in windowed mode results in normal behaviour).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Use r_antialias 4 to enable MSAA x4 anti-aliasing and r_apply to apply new settings.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 100 FPS by default. Use cl_fps X to raise the cap (where X is the desired maximum FPS).
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Input Settings.
Input Settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input has a noticeable lag.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio Settings.
Audio Settings.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Versus
Online play
Versus
GameSpy servers have been shut down. Joining only possible via direct IP.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Possible with cl_join IP command (where IP is host's global IP).

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 27318
UDP 27318
This game does not support Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II - 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 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).

References