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Spec Ops: The Line

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Spec Ops
Spec Ops: Rangers Lead the Way 1998
Spec Ops II: Green Berets 1999
Spec Ops: The Line 2012

Key points

Game uses encrypted configuration files.

General information

Steam forum for game series
Steam Community Discussions
Spec ops: The Line 2K Forums for game

Availability

All versions require Steam

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Improvements

Skip Introduction Logo Videos

Navigate to Spec Ops The Line\SRGame\Movies\ and delete/rename or move these files: 

2KDemo_Warn.bik
2KLogo.bik
blackscreen_3sek.bik
Legal.bik
LegalScreen.bik
legal_DEU.bik
legal_ESN.bik
legal_FRA.bik
legal_ITA.bik
legal_logo_screen.bik
UnrealLogo.bik
YagerLogo.bik

Encrypted configuration files

The game's configuration files are encrypted. User Rick from the XeNTaX forums has developed a utility which can decrypt the file, allow it to be edited, and then re-encrypt the file so that Spec Ops: The Line can read it. The relevant post is on XeNTaX forum, where there is a direct link to the decrypter file download from Rick's own web hosting.[1][2][3]

The configuration files used by the game are stored in the folder "...\My Games\SpecOps-TheLine\SRGame\Config". The file names all start with "SR...".

To edit one of the files:

  1. right-click the encrypted file and choose "open with" Gibbed.SpecOpsTheLine.IniDecrypt.exe
  2. edit the now unencrypted file using Notepad and save
  3. right-click the file and choose "open with" Gibbed.SpecOpsTheLine.IniEncrypt.exe
  4. to prevent the game from overwriting any changes you made right-click the file, select properties and enable write-protection (note that this might prevent the game from saving changes you made in the in-game options menus)

Note: It is always recommended that you make backups of the original files before editing them manually.

Game data

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Save game cloud syncing

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Video settings

File:Specopstheline settings.jpg
General settings.

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Input settings

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Issues resolved

No sound during cutscenes

Instructions

Issues unresolved

Crashing and low framerate

Users have reported crashing, low framerates.[4]
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.[5] The game runs on 3840 x 2160 screen resolution by default, see below for fix.
Instructions
Instructions

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.[6]

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

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References