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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn cover
Developers
Red Storm Entertainment
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows December 15, 2001
Reception
Metacritic 67
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn on IGDB
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn on MobyGames
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Subseries of Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six 1998
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear 1999
Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials 2000
Rainbow Six: Take-Down 2001
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn 2001
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield 2003
Rainbow Six: Lockdown 2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 2008
Rainbow Six Siege 2015
Rainbow Six Extraction 2022

Key points

Online services are no longer available.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

External configuration.
External configuration.

Skip intro videos

Uncheck Show Movies in RSConfig.exe.

Patches

v2.61 Patch

Playing the game under Windows 7 64bit

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe, D3DImm.dll, and DDraw.dll to the installation folder.
  3. Launch dgVoodooCpl.exe and click the .\ button.
  4. Under the DirectX tab check Fast video memory access.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Red Storm Entertainment\Rogue Spear[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\Save\[Note 3]

Video settings

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.
Advanced Graphics settings.
Advanced Graphics settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Spanish
Fan translation, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
16
Online play
16

Connection types

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 550 MB (Additional 100 MB required for proper Windows swap file allocation)
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0a compatible

Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] 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.[2]
  2. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  3. 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).

References