Vietnam: Black Ops
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| Developers | |
|---|---|
| Fused Software | |
| Publishers | |
| ValuSoft | |
| Engines | |
| LithTech | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | September 27, 2000 |
| Vietnam | |
|---|---|
| Vietnam: Black Ops | 2000 |
| Vietnam 2: Special Assignment | 2001 |
| Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Trail | 2003 |
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail |
Essential improvements
Patches
- Latest patch is version 1.0a available here.
dgVoodoo 2
- This game is rendered in 16 bit color depth, dgVoodoo 2 forces 32 bit color depth which significantly improves the rendering quality.
| Instructions[1] |
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| Increasing HUD and text size[1] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg[Note 1] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 1] |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | Only some widescreen resolutions are available in the options menu, but the game is stretched. Menus and mission briefing screens remain 640x480. | ||
| 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) | Highest quality AF is enabled by default, no option to disable. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | Force in the GPU control panel or dgVoodoo 2. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | Enabled by default, no option to disable. | ||
| 60 FPS | |||
| 120+ FPS | |||
| Color blind mode | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Setting the screen resolution manually
- Resolution selection in the options menu is glitched and some resolutions are displayed incorrectly.
| Instructions[1] |
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Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Keyboard and mouse prompts | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Additional information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Button prompts | ||
| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Input prompt override | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | Music and sound effects. | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | All speech is text based. | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English |
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 7 | |
| Software renderer |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows[2] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Recommended | |||
| Operating system (OS) | 95, 98 | |||
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II (266 MHz) | Intel Pentium III | ||
| System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB | ||
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) | 100 MB | |||
| Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7 compatible | 16 MB of VRAM | ||
Notes
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Verified by User:Antrad on December 22, 2017
- ↑ Information taken from game Readme file.