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Tom Clancy's ruthless.com

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Tom Clancy's ruthless.com
Tom Clancy's ruthless.com cover
Developers
Red Storm Entertainment
Publishers
Red Storm Entertainment
Re-release Global Software Publishing
Release dates
Windows November 20, 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres TBS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Cyberpunk
Series Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy's ruthless.com on IGDB
Tom Clancy's ruthless.com on MobyGames
Tom Clancy's ruthless.com on Wikipedia
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Tom Clancy's ruthless.com is a singleplayer and multiplayer isometric TBS game in the Tom Clancy series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check.
Windows

Essential improvements

Official patches

Skip intro video

Move, delete or rename the intro video
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Move, delete or rename the file LOGOS.AVI.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\prefs.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Only a master volume slider is present. Sound effects can be turned on/off.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
The official MPlayer.com service has been shut down.

Connection types

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer MPlayer.com

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Pentium MMX 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) SVGA


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).

References