Difference between revisions of "S.O.E.: Operation Avalanche"

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S.O.E.: Operation Avalanche is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game.

It was also released as WWII: Soldier and WW2: Last Hero.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\config.ini^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SaveGames\^{[Note 1]}

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Up to 8x MSAA.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Game's Vsync doesn't work properly on Windows 8 or newer. Use a DirectX wrapper like dgVoodoo 2 or d3d8to9 to fix it.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Instructions^[1]

Run <path-to-game>\Config.exe at least once.
Close it and open the newly created <path-to-game>\config.ini.
Change the lines Width= and Height= to the desired values.

Notes

Hor+ gameplay; HUD adjusts automatically.

Windowed

Instructions^[1]
Run `<path-to-game>\Config.exe` at least once. Close it and open the newly created `<path-to-game>\config.ini`. Change the line `Windowed=0` to `Windowed=1`.

Input

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

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and SFX sliders.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

Poor performance on Windows 8 or newer

Use dgVoodoo 2^[1]

Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper^[1]
Download `d3d8.dll` from here. Place it in `<path-to-game>`.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM)	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

↑ ^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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-08-10

[gamedir-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).

[alphayellow_10_08_2024-2] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-08-10

[Note 1]

[1]

@@ Line 73: / Line 73: @@
 |4k ultra hd                = hackable
 |4k ultra hd notes          = See [[#Widescreen resolution|Widescreen resolution]].
-|fov                        = hackable
+|fov                        = false
-|fov notes                  = 60º by default. To change it, use the [https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/3073-sas-anti-terror-force-fov-changer/ FOV Changer].
+|fov notes                  =
 |windowed                   = hackable
 |windowed notes             = See [[#Windowed|Windowed]].
@@ Line 99: / Line 99: @@
 ===[[Glossary:Widescreen resolution|Widescreen resolution]]===
-{{Fixbox|description=Instructions|ref=<ref name="alphayellow_09_08_2024">{{Refcheck|user=AlphaYellow|date=2024-08-09}}</ref>|fix=
+{{Fixbox|description=Instructions|ref=<ref name="alphayellow_10_08_2024">{{Refcheck|user=AlphaYellow|date=2024-08-10}}</ref>|fix=
 # Run {{file|{{p|game}}\Config.exe}} at least once.
 # Close it and open the newly created {{file|{{p|game}}\config.ini}}.
@@ Line 109: / Line 109: @@
 ===[[Glossary:Windowed|Windowed]]===
-{{Fixbox|description=Instructions|ref=<ref name="alphayellow_09_08_2024"/>|fix=
+{{Fixbox|description=Instructions|ref=<ref name="alphayellow_10_08_2024"/>|fix=
 # Run {{file|{{p|game}}\Config.exe}} at least once.
 # Close it and open the newly created {{file|{{p|game}}\config.ini}}.
@@ Line 210: / Line 210: @@
 ==Issues fixed==
 ===Poor performance on Windows 8 or newer===
-{{Fixbox|description=Use [[dgVoodoo 2]]|ref=<ref name="alphayellow_09_08_2024"/>}}
+{{Fixbox|description=Use [[dgVoodoo 2]]|ref=<ref name="alphayellow_10_08_2024"/>}}
-{{Fixbox|description=Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper|ref=<ref name="alphayellow_09_08_2024"/>|fix=
+{{Fixbox|description=Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper|ref=<ref name="alphayellow_10_08_2024"/>|fix=
 # Download {{file|d3d8.dll}} from [https://github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/releases here].
 # Place it in {{folder|{{p|game}}}}.

Developers

	Atomic Planet Entertainment
Publishers
	Midas Interactive Entertainment
Engines
	APETEC Engine
Release dates
Windows	June 30, 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Europe, Historical, World War II