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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter cover
Developers
GRIN
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Diesel
Release dates
Windows May 3, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 80
IGDB 93
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, North America, Sci-fi
Series Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
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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

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

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

Key points

May require the Nvidia PhysX Legacy System Software to prevent a crash at launch.
Requires the Ageia Physx PPU1 or PPU2 with Ageia driver 7.11.13 to correctly operate the game. It is not intended to be played with NVidia Physx.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SecuROM v7 DRM.
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.35 updates the game to the latest version. Mirror.

Skip intro videos

Use intro skip[1]
  1. Download Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter intro skip.
  2. Go to the <path-to-game>\Data\movies.
  3. Replace GRAW_HDEU.bik, grin_logo.bik and SIGNATURE.BIK with it's counterparts from archive.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\settings\renderer_settings.xml
<path-to-game>\data\sound\settings.xml
<path-to-game>\Settings\ctrl_set_def.xml
[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13640/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Settings\profiles[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13640/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.
Nvidia Inspector antialising compatibility setting for GRAW.
Nvidia Inspector antialising compatibility setting for GRAW.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Hor+ gameplay and cut-scenes, spanned but stretched UI.[2]
4K Ultra HD
Text scales very poorly at higher resolutions. Other HUD elements scale properly.
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of View.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
2x, 4x, 8x, 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Ingame with "edge smoothing". Also see Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Confirmed 144 Hz

Field of View

Instructions[citation needed]

Can be modified by editing renderer_settings.xml (see Configuration file location) and changing the value of "aspect ratio". A value of 2 to 2.5 is recommended for 16:9 displays, with 2.3 being ideal with minimal clipping of weapon models.[3] For example, <variable name="aspect_ratio" value="0"/> becomes <variable name="aspect_ratio" value="2.3"/>.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

With Nvidia graphics cards, true Antialiasing can be forcibly enabled via Nvidia Profile Inspector with the Antialiasing compatibility bit 0x00001241.[4]

Input

Input menu.
Input menu.
Game settings with mouse sensitivity sliders.
Game settings with mouse sensitivity sliders.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output through OpenAL.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 4.0.
OpenAL Soft 1.19.0 and 1.19.1 cause distorted audio in Diesel engine games. OpenAL Soft 1.20.1 fixes the audio.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation: download (GameVicio)
Spanish
Russian
Traditional Chinese

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[5] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Patch 1.30 adds dedicated server software in the installation folder.
Direct IP

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

Visual glitches when looking through scopes

When looking through scopes with patch 1.35 installed, many objects may appear black.
Use a custom version of dxwrapper
  1. Download custom version of dxwrapper.
  2. Unzip it into the installation folder.

Falling through terrain

In the Steam version you will start falling through the terrain; this becomes an issue in mission 5 "Mayday! Mayday!" if you go too far north, and in Mission 6, "Ready for bear", which happens before you exit the APC.
Rename patch.bundle[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\bundles\
  2. Rename patch.bundle to Xpatch.bundle.
This change may break multiplayer but can be reverted if necessary.[6]

Crash at launch

Install Nvidia PhysX Legacy System Software[citation needed]

Install the Nvidia PhysX Legacy System Software.

Cross-com doesn't work (middle mouse button)

In the Steam version, the middle mouse button does not seem to function as it should, i.e. make your soldiers execute a command. To fix the problem, you need to edit a file called ctrl_set_def.xml. However, while this fix will allow you to open the menu, you will only be able to issue move commands. You cannot order your squad to attack, follow or stop. There is no known fix at this time.

Editing ctrl_set_def.xml[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Settings.
  2. Open ctrl_set_def.xml with Notepad or Notepad++.
  3. Change the line

<button id="hud_select" binding="2" device="mouse" group="misc"/> to
<button id="hud_select" binding="2" device="mouse" group="tactics"/>.

Temporary freeze at startup

The retail version of GRAW is still looking for the GameSpy servers on startup but naturally won't get any response. This lookup causes a temporary freeze, about 20 seconds long. You can prevent this by editing the Windows hosts file.

Editing Windows Hosts File[citation needed]
  1. Go to the %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\.
  2. Open hosts with Notepad. (You may need to run Notepad as an administrator)
  3. Add the following lines at the bottom:

127.0.0.1 greconawf.available.gamespy.com
127.0.0.1 key.gamespy.com
127.0.0.1 greconawf.ms0.gamespy.com

This change breaks (the not functioning) multiplayer but can be reverted if necessary. It may also interfere with any software wanting to connect to those GameSpy servers.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX May require the Nvidia PhysX Legacy System Software.
Audio OpenAL
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows[7]
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6/7 series
ATI Radeon 9600-9800/X series
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Shader model 2.0 support
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9 compatible (PC audio solution containing Dolby Digital Live required for Dolby Digital audio)
Other 64 Kbps upstream or faster broadband connection


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/13640/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (13640) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References