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Revision as of 07:37, 24 August 2021

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 cover
Developers
GRIN
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Diesel 2.0
Release dates
Windows June 28, 2007
Reception
Metacritic 76
IGDB 84
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on HowLongToBeat
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on IGDB
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 guide on StrategyWiki
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on MobyGames
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on Wikipedia

Warnings

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

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Retail version is DRM-free.[1]
Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
Ubisoft Store (unavailable)
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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13510/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\GRAW2
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13510/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Use Flawless Widescreen or Widescreen Fixer.
Ultra-widescreen
Image is stretched from 16:9. Use Flawless Widescreen or Widescreen Fixer.
4K Ultra HD
Entire HUD scales very poorly at higher resolutions.
Field of view (FOV)
Use Flawless Widescreen.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Under Texture filtering
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Off, and Edge Smoothing.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Under advanced settings.
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output through OpenAL.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 4.0 (under advanced settings.)
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
Italian
German
Spanish
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Russian
Polish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[2] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Dedicated server software is included in the installation folder.
Self-hosting
Direct IP

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.

Startup crash

Startup crashes pertain to PhysX v2.7.1. Uninstall PhysX, and install the latest Nvidia PhysX System Software.

Other information

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio OpenAL

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce FX 5500
ATI Radeon X850
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 2.0 support
Other 128 Kbps Broadband Internet connection or faster
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but are not supported.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References