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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon cover
Developers
Red Storm Entertainment
Mac OS (Classic) i5works[1]
Publishers
Ubisoft
Mac OS Aspyr Media
Release dates
Windows November 13, 2001
Mac OS (Classic) November 1, 2002
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon guide on StrategyWiki
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon on Wikipedia
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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
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

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Ubisoft Store
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 Included with Ubisoft+.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Desert Siege Mac OS version is only available in the Game of The Year Pack.
Windows
Mac OS
Island Thunder Can be made to run on Mac by following the instructions found here.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\options.xml[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15300/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\Save[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15300/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

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Windowed

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open options.xml.
  3. Find the following line, and set it to this value.
<FullScreen>FALSE</FullScreen>

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Brazilian Portuguese
Only retail
Spanish

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.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
36
Online play
36

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[citation needed]

Screen flickering

Custom DLL[citation needed]
  1. Download the following archive.
  2. Go to the installation folder and extract the files.
Instructions[citation needed]
  1. See Windowed.
  2. See Borderless Gaming.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 450 MHz Pentium 2 or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References