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Revision as of 11:07, 15 October 2021
This page is for the original game. For the remake, see Space Rangers HD: A War Apart.
Developers | |
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Elemental Games | |
Publishers | |
US | Cinemaware |
Europe | Excalibur Publishing |
Russia, Poland | 1C Company |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 13, 2005 |
Taxonomy | |
Series | Space Rangers |
Space Rangers | |
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Space Rangers | 2002 |
Space Rangers 2: Dominators | 2004 |
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart | 2013 |
Space Rangers: Quest | 2016 |
Key points
- Released as Space Rangers 2 in the UK and Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators in the US.
- Re-released as Space Rangers 2: Reboot, which includes the base game and its Reboot expansion.
- Wide variety of in-game graphical options.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] on the original and Special Edition. StarForce 5 DRM for Reboot. |
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GOG.com (unavailable) | Reboot. | |||
Steam (unavailable) | Reboot. |
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
- This game is not available digitally.
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Reboot |
Essential improvements
Skip intro cutscenes
Modify config file[5] |
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Smooth font replacement[6]
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\cfg.txt[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46330/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2] <path-to-game>\questcomplete.dat[Note 2] <path-to-game>\robotcomplete.dat[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46330/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
- Space and planetary battles use different screen resolution settings.
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | 800x600 or 1024x768 | ||
Field of view (FOV) | not applicable due to the gameplay | ||
Windowed | Auto-minimizes on focus loss. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Unknown for planetary battles | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | No FPS lock (unknown for planetary battles) No FPS lock (unknown for planetary battles) |
Widescreen resolution
Widescreen patch[6] |
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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
- All in-game dialogue is text-based.
- Sounds and music settings are set separately for Space and Planetary battles.
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sounds, Music | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Intro cutscene and planetary battle announcer lack subtitles. All other dialog is text-based. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Russian |
Issues fixed
Game displays blank screen
- The game renders nothing to the screen under Windows 7 and higher.
Blank screen: Workaround 1 |
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Blank screen: Workaround 2[5] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7, 8 | Space battles uses DX7, Planetary battles uses DX8[5] |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Xvid |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 450 MHz | Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 800 MB | 1.4 GB |
Video card (GPU) | 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible |
- Minimum system requirements do not support planetary battles.
Notes
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (46330) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Windows Vista support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 7 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 8.1 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ Windows 10 support - StarForce Support
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Tested by Expack3
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 [1] - last accessed on 2021-09-02
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://alexeyworld.com/blog/space_rangers_blackscreen_windows10.276.aspx