War Wind
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Developers | |
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DreamForge Intertainment | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Strategic Simulations Inc. |
Digital, original | GOG.com |
Digital, current | SNEG |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 23, 1996 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | Freeware |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Top-down view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | RTS |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | War Wind |
War Wind | |
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War Wind | 1996 |
War Wind II: Human Onslaught | 1997 |
War Wind is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view RTS game in the War Wind series.
General information
Availability
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete or rename movie files[1] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1741140/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1741140/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | Applicable only to map scrolling. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, sound effects | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German |
Network
- Multiplayer requires DirectPlay to be enabled.
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | ||||
LAN play | 8 | |||
Online play | 8 | The official MPlayer.com service has been shut down. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Multiplayer | MPlayer.com | Servers were taken offline. |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 60 MHz | Intel Pentium 120 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 5 MB | 85 MB |
Video card (GPU) | 640x480 resolution 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 3 compatible | |
Other | 2x CD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1741140) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2020-06-04