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Spec Ops: The Line

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Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line cover
Developers
Yager Development
Multiplayer Darkside Game Studios
Publishers
2K Games
OS X Digital Tribe Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows June 26, 2012
macOS (OS X) November 7, 2013
Spec Ops: The Line on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Spec Ops
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Spec Ops: The Line 2012

Key points

Game uses encrypted configuration files.

General information

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Spec ops: The Line 2K Forums for game

Availability

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All versions require Steam.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Encrypted configuration files

The game's configuration files are encrypted.
User Rick has developed a utility on the XeNTaX forums which can decrypt the files, allow them to be edited, and then re-encrypted so that Spec Ops: The Line can work.

Instructions

Add anti-aliasing

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/50300/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/50300/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Input settings

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Mouse control settings.

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Audio settings

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Localizations

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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Issues fixed

No sound during cutscenes

The problem appears to be that bounded to multiple causes, like wrong audio routing, wrong codecs or surround audio setups.[1]
Instructions

Issues unresolved

Crashing and low frame rate

Users have reported crashing, low frame rates.[2]
AMD users have experienced the game crashing on launch, with the message, C:\depot\PC\UnrealEngine3\Development\Src\D3D9Drv\Src\D3D9Device.cpp:718 with error D3DERR_INVALIDCALL" rendering the game unplayable.[3] The game runs on 3840 x 2160 screen resolution by default, see below for fix.
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Integrated graphics

Laptops with both integrated (onboard) graphics and discrete graphics may have a tendency to run Spec Ops: The Line on integrated graphics, resulting in markedly poor performance, even on lowest settings.

Instructions

Mouse speed

Mouse speed adjustment in the menu does not always work properly.[4]

In the single player campaign mode changing the mouse speed during gameplay can cause the mouse speed to become extremly high regardless of the value it was set to. It is recommended to set the mouse speed from the options menu before starting gameplay to avoid this issue.

In multiplayer mode the mouse speed sometimes is at an extremely high level regardless of the setting. Contrary to single player mode, setting the value in the options menu before starting a game does not necessarily prevent this problem.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 equivalent
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 8600
ATI Radeon HD 2600XT
256 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/50300/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (50300) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References