Tribes: Vengeance

Tribes: Vengeance

Developers
	Irrational Games
Publishers
	Sierra Entertainment
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows	October 5, 2004

Warnings

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

Tribes
Subseries of Metaltech
Starsiege: Tribes	1998
Tribes 2	2001
Tribes: Vengeance	2004
Tribes: Ascend	2012
Tribes 3: Rivals	2024

Key points

Re-released for free by Hi-Rez Studios in 2015

General information

Tribalwar

Subreddit

Fan site with download

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 5 DRM.
Official website

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Program\Bin <path-to-game>\Content\System

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Content\Saves

Video

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		85°, Vert-. See Field of view (FOV) or WSGF entry.
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		See Run the game at screen refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Edit INI files

Base game Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open DefTribesGUIState.ini. Add or Adjust the following lines accordingly to your resolution ScreenResolutionChoices=800x600 ScreenResolutionChoices=1024x576 ScreenResolutionChoices=1024x768 ScreenResolutionChoices=1280x720 ScreenResolutionChoices=1280x1024 ScreenResolutionChoices=1366x768 ScreenResolutionChoices=1600x1200 ScreenResolutionChoices=1920x1080 ScreenResolutionChoices=2560x1440 ScreenResolutionChoices=3840x2160

Field of view (FOV)

Edit ini file[citation needed]
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open User.ini (make sure you have run the game at least once). Go to class [Engine.PlayerController]. In this section adjust both DesiredFOV=85.000000 and DefaultFOV=85.000000.

Windowed

Edit ini file[citation needed]
Open TV_CD_DVD.ini within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Find Suppress=WindowedMode and comment it (put a ; at beginning of the line) Notes You can toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode with Alt+↵ Enter now

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit ini file[citation needed]
Open TV_CD_DVD.ini within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Go to class [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]. In this section adjust line LevelOfAnisotropy=1 (maximum is 16).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit ini file[citation needed]
Open TV_CD_DVD.ini within configuration file(s) location with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Go to class [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]. In this section find UseVSync=False which can be set to true to enable v-sync

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse acceleration and smoothing enabled by default
Mouse sensitivity		See Mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Mouse acceleration

Edit User.ini[citation needed]

Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open User.ini (make sure you have run the game at least once) Add the following lines at the bottom: [Engine.PlayerInput] bInvertMouse=False MouseSmoothingMode=0 MouseSmoothingStrength=0.000000 MouseSensitivity=1.00000 MouseSamplingTime=0.001 MouseAccelThreshold=0.000000 DoubleClickTime=0.200000 [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis

Mouse sensitivity

Edit User.ini[citation needed]
Set in-game sensitivity slider to 1.00 Calculate your sensitivity for UT2004 on mouse-sensitivity.com Edit your User.ini with a text editor: [Engine.Input] MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0 MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0 [Engine.PlayerInput] MouseSensitivity=1.00000 [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound, Music, Speech.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 with Creative ALchemy
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		UseEAX=True in TV_CD_DVD.ini only adds reverb to cutscenes.

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Issues fixed

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Maximum selectable refresh rate is 60 Hz. This does not limit FPS, but may set your monitor's refresh rate to 100 Hz, which may result in screen tearing on a 120 Hz or 144 Hz monitor.

Set fullscreen refresh rate[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\system. Open Unreal2.ini. Find this line: DesiredRefreshRate=60. Change the value to set your monitors refresh rate. For example 120 or 144. Notes Modifying any video options will undo the custom refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	OpenAL
Multiplayer	GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98SE	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 7200 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB of VRAM