The Royal Marines Commando

The Royal Marines Commando

Developers
	City Interactive
Publishers
	City Interactive
Engines
	Lithtech Jupiter EX
Release dates
Windows	November 15, 2008
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	Africa, Europe, World War II

The Royal Marines Commando is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Simple disc check.
Steam		The first, third and ninth images shown on Steam are from The Hell in Vietnam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%PUBLIC%\Documents\City Interactive\Royal Marines Commando\settings.cfg
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/837600/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%PUBLIC%\Documents\City Interactive\Royal Marines Commando\Profiles\ %PUBLIC%\Documents\City Interactive\Royal Marines Commando\Save\
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/837600/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Display Settings

Performance Settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Hor+. 16:9 and 16:10 resolutions will have the warning "The game is not optimized for this resolution" shown.
Multi-monitor			Hor+.
Ultra-widescreen			Hor+.
4K Ultra HD			Hor+.
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Start the game with +windowed 1 parameter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Off and FSAA up to 4x.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		On and Off options. Default is Off.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		No option to cap frame rate instead of Vsync, use RTSS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

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  Game Options

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  Advanced Video Card Effects Settings

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  Advanced Video Card Graphics Settings

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  Advanced Performance Physics Settings

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  Advanced Performance Sound Settings

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  Advanced Performance Effects Settings

Field of view (FOV)

This game uses vertical FOV. See FOV Calculator for help.

Set custom FOV
Go to <path-to-game>. Edit or create autoexec.cfg with Notepad. Add "FovY" "XX" on a new line, where XX is the desired vertical FOV.

Windowed

Some players game may only launch as a black screen while in windowed mode but will be perfectly fine during fullscreen.

Set windowed mode
Go to <path-to-game>. Edit or create autoexec.cfg with Notepad. Add "Windowed" "1" on a new line.

Input

Controls Options

Mouse Settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Movement, Interaction, Inventory and Status groups.
Mouse acceleration		From 0 to 20.
Mouse sensitivity		From 0 to 15.
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Yes and No options. Default is No.
Controller
Controller support		This game wasn't designed to support controllers warning shown in game page. An option for Joystick/Gamepad Axis is available.

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  Joystick/Gamepad Settings

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  Movement Settings

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  Interaction Settings

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  Inventory Settings

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  Status Settings

Audio

Sound Settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound Effects, Speech and Music volumes. From 0 to 20. Default is 20.
Surround sound
Subtitles		On and Off options.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		On and Off options. 2.0 and Advanced HD.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish				Not shown on Steam page, but available in Properties at General tab.
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game is on 2nd monitor instead on the first

Don't use +windowed 2 parameter

Stuck in Operation Consul

After picking up the documents and blowing up the safe, the team will wait at the top of the stairs and the mission marker on minimap will be stuck.
From the top of the stairs, go down and right to the first door on the second floor.

Safe doesn't blow up in Operation Consul

This is not a bug, the documents in a room must be picked up first.

Slow loading level and aero disabling

Occurs only on Windows Vista and Windows 7, because of the special graphic stack WDDM.

Install game only on Windows XP, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
Notes Using Windows 8.1 or 10 significantly reduces the launch time of the level, perhaps this is due to improvements in the WDDM graphics stack.

Control key settings are not assigned

Keyboard settings reset to unassigned when restarting the game.

Run game as administrator

Soft Shadows not working

Soft Shadows not working despite the setting being enabled.

Disable anti-aliasing in the game options
Notes This is due to the features of the engine and the artificial limitation of the simultaneous use of anti-aliasing with soft shadows, since they can cause graphic artifacts on the shadows.

Other information

Weapons Settings

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
Shader Model support	3

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok Physics

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 3,2 GHz / Intel Pentium D 2.66 GHz AMD Athlon 64 3500+
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 6800/7600-7950/8600-8800/9600-9800 / GTX 260-280 AMD Radeon X1650-1950 / HD 2400-2900/3650-3870/4650-4870 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device)	Sound card compatible with DirectX 9.0c