Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Developers
	Red Storm Entertainment
Mac OS (Classic)	i5works
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Mac OS	Aspyr Media
Release dates
Windows	November 13, 2001
Mac OS (Classic)	November 1, 2002
Reception
Metacritic	80
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary
Series	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Subseries of Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon	2001
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter	2006
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2	2007
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier	2012
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms	2014
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands	2017
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint	2019
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Frontline	Cancelled

Warnings

The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS, shooter and tactical shooter game in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v2 DRM
Retail		"2 Great Games" edition
Epic Games Store
GOG.com		Does not include the Desert Siege and Island Thunder expansions.
Humble Store
Steam
Ubisoft Store		Included with Ubisoft+.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Desert Siege	Mac OS version is only available in the Game of The Year Pack.
Island Thunder	See Island Thunder not available on Mac for Mac conversion.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\options.xml
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15300/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Mods\Origmiss\save
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15300/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Vert-; game looks cropped when using widescreen resolutions. Increase FOV to compensate by using the Widescreen Fixer. Menus are locked at 640x480.
Multi-monitor			Vert-; game looks cropped when using multimonitor resolutions. Increase FOV to compensate by using the Widescreen Fixer. To fix the zoom and binocular masks at 48:10, see also the WSGF entry. Menus are locked at 640x480.
Ultra-widescreen			Vert-; game looks cropped when using ultrawide resolutions. Increase FOV to compensate by using the Widescreen Fixer. Menus are locked at 640x480.
4K Ultra HD			Vert-; game looks cropped when using widescreen resolutions. Increase FOV to compensate by using the Widescreen Fixer. Menus are locked at 640x480.
Field of view (FOV)		Use Widescreen Fixer.
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Use dgVoodoo2.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Use dgVoodoo2.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Broken in the latest Windows 10/11 version because of DWM; force through GPU control panel.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Windowed

Instructions
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open options.xml. Find the <FullScreen>TRUE</FullScreen> line, and set it to <FullScreen>FALSE</FullScreen>.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Seems to be turned off by default, no option to turn on.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, effects, music and voice.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles		Important messages are still displayed in text, but don't match speech.
Closed captions		Despite this, source of attacks are shown from the compass.
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 2.0.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Polish				Retail only.
Brazilian Portuguese				Retail only.
Russian				Retail only.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		36
Online play		36	The official Ubi.com service has been shut down.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Issues fixed

Failed to start game (app already running) error

Additional symptom: Task Manager (or Process Explorer) shows the game appear in the task list, but it closes immediately.

Restart Steam

Delete dbghelp.dll
Go to <path-to-game>. Delete or rename dbghelp.dll.

Screen flickering

Use d3d8to9
Download archive linked above. Extract d3d8.dll into <path-to-game>.

Run game in Windowed mode

Use Borderless Gaming

Vsync (Enable by default) not working on Windows 10

Use dgVoodoo 2
Download dgVoodoo 2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the \MS\x86\ folder to <path-to-game>.

Island Thunder not available on Mac

Use Virtual PC, or a PC to extract the files (requires PC expansion)

Download WinPack300b and extract to your PC desktop. Insert the Island Thunder PC disc, cancel any autorun processes, locate and open the cd from your computer, you should see a few files around, the ones we need are the MP2 files in data1.cab, do not do anything yet Open up winpack 300, you should see a few odd buttons, do not do anything to them, instead just press load packed file, proceed to open data1.cab. You should see a bunch of folders when it is finished opening, the only ones we are concerned about are the ones containing MP2 in the name, there should be a few. Proceed to extract all of the folders with MP2 in their name to the desktop, when finished, you should have around 16-20 folders, you are going to have to rename all of them in a case sensitive way so that it will run. First find the folder Mp2, there should be nothing inside it besides one text file entitled modscount.txt, this will be the folder that you place the other renamed folders into. Start renaming the folders, example, a folder named Mp2_Video would be renamed Video, then it would be placed inside the folder Mp2, continue on with that process, there are two cases though that are different, the sound folders, and the shell folder. for sound there should be a Mp2_Sound and a few other folders like Mp2_Sound_RussianVoice, that roughly means that you have to rename that folder to RussianVoice, then place inside the sounds folder inside the Mp2 folder. If you extracted all the shell folders there should be a few like Mp2_shell_english and ones with a few other languages listed after shell_, you will only need the version for your language region, so rename Mp2_shell_english to just shell, there should also be a Mp2_shell_art folder that goes within the shell folder. When finished renaming all the folders, there should be 16 items in your Mp2 folder, they are: Actor, Attachments, Briefings, Command Maps, Equip, Kits, Map, Mission, Model, Modscount.txt, save, shell, sound, textures, and video. Copy this file to a cd, or transfer the entire folder to your Mac. Now run the Island Thunder Mac patch, it fixes all the little problems that occur after the rough conversion. When the file is done, open the installer and follow the instructions the installer provides, also you might want to consider installing the Microsoft Mpeg 4 codecs that the video files use, after running the patch, move the Mp2 folder to your Ghost Recon - Desert Siege/Ghost Recon Data/Mods folder. To play Island Thunder, you activate it like a mod, except it must be the 2nd mod on the active mod list (Desert Siege > Island Thunder), the first should always be Desert Siege. You might notice some sounds play a bit too loud, to fix this you will need a utility called SoundAPP](OS 9) or Sound Converter(OS X). You will need to convert all the .wav sound files to .aif, nothing else is required (although you must convert all the files in the sounds folder, the sound/Russian voice and the sound/English folders as well).

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	DirectSound3D
Multiplayer	Ubi.com

System requirements

Windows

Mac OS (Classic)

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP 7, 10, 11 (Steam)
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 450 MHz or equivalent
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible

Mac OS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	9 / Mac OS X 10.0 (Carbonized)
Processor (CPU)	PowerPC G3 450 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB RAM (256 MB if running Mac OS X)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB hard disk space
Video card (GPU)	ATI Rage 128 with 16 MB VRAM

Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: ATI Rage 128 and RADEON chips, Intel 82810 or higher, Matrox Parhelia, NVIDIA TNT2 and GeForce chips, S3 Pro Savage and UniChrome Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.