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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier cover
Developers
Ubisoft Romania
Ubisoft Paris
Red Storm Entertainment
Windows Ubisoft Ukraine
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
YETI
Release dates
Windows June 28, 2012
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Subseries of Tom Clancy
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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

Key points

Game has issues remembering remapped keys.[1]
Game has severe issues connecting to friends for co-op campaign.
Settings can only be accessed via the main menu.[1]

General information

Official website
Ubisoft Forum
Ghost Recon Wiki - A wiki for the series
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Epic Games Store
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Ultimate Edition.
Windows
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Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Deluxe Edition is included with Ubisoft+.
Windows
All versions require Ubisoft Connect DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Season Pass
Windows
Arctic Strike
Windows
Raven Strike
Windows
Khyber Strike
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete SPL_ESRB_UBI_CLANCY.bik, SPL_Intro_Trailer.bik and SPL_RSE_Logo_fade.bik in <path-to-game>\Video[2]

Patches

Patches[citation needed]
  • If the games is purchased as a retail DVD, is most likely version 1.0. In this case, all the update patches have to be applied one by one. The official Ubisoft link to the updates is here.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ubisoft\Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/212630/pfx/[Note 1]
Video settings can be changed by editing the default.cfg file[3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ubisoft\Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/212630/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Patch to Title Update 1.4[citation needed]
Title Update 1.2 will lock the resolution to 720p.[4]
This fix resolves a lot of video resolution problems and enables the game to be played in most resolutions and in Eyefinity setups.

Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game gamepad settings.
In-game gamepad settings.

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Russian
Retail version only.
Spanish
Swedish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
16 Versus, Co-op
Co-op: 4 players.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 80, 1001-1002, 2346
UDP 10007, 15765, 24340, 24360
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues unresolved

Steam Multiplayer

Anytime you connect to a host with a different patch, you will be booted within 10–15 seconds of connecting because the Steam version is different to other multiplayer hosts or clients.[5]

Issues fixed

Can't connect to Co-op games

Instructions[6]
  • Check that no other network adapters are enabled. Adapters such as VPN, VirtualBox, and others may cause conflict.
  • In the event that multiple are present, disable all but the one your intend to use.
  • Alternatively, change the priority for the network adapter.
  • If the above does not resolve the problem, have the host of the game forward the following ports to a static IP address:
Uplay
TCP: 80, 443, 13000, 13005, 13200, 14000, 14001, 14008
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
TCP: 1001, 1002, 2346
UDP: 10007, 15765, 24340, 24360
Use Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, as found here).

Crash After Launch

The game launches fine (tested on the Steam Version) but crashes right after it sets itself to Fullscreen.
In Uplay's main settings, disable the in-game overlay. Should be the 3 ticked box from the top, just un-tick.

Mouse Won't Work

Keyboard and mouse may be selectable within the game menu but do not work in-game.
Uninstall the drivers for any installed gamepads[7]

Game does not go fullscreen correctly

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit default.cfg.
  3. Change the resolution.
  4. Save, then set the file to read only.

Mouse not clipping to the game window

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit default.cfg.
  3. Change fullscreen from True to False
  4. Save, then then set the file to read only.

Poor performance

Turn off DX11
Due to a bad DX11 implementation the game runs much better without it. This includes being able to keep Ambient Occlusion on without a performance drop [8]
Disable Ambient Occlusion in graphics options[citation needed]
Due to poor optimization, the effect is extraordinarily resource-intensive.
Enable Nightvision/Magnetics in game when possible[citation needed]
Because of poor optimization of graphics, enabling this should reduce movement/camera lag in-game.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

The game may force your monitor's refresh rate to 60 hz. This results in reduced smoothness on high refresh rate monitors, and will limit FPS to 60 if Vsync is enabled.
Set display refresh rate[citation needed]
  1. Download Special K.
  2. Copy SpecialK32.dll to the installation folder.
  3. Rename SpecialK32.dll to dxgi.dll.
  4. Start the game and exit.
  5. Open dxgi.ini in the installation folder.
  6. Change RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate].

Notes

If your monitor has a manual refresh rate toggle button, you can use that to set a higher refresh rate instead of using a custom .dll.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9, 11
Shader Model support 4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer Quazal
Anti-cheat PunkBuster [9] [10]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista SP2
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
ATI Radeon HD 4650
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Shader model 4.0 support

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>/212630/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (212630) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References