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Wargasm

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Wargasm
Wargasm cover
Developers
Digital Image Design
Publishers
Infogrames
Engines
3Dream
Release dates
Windows December 1998
Reception
IGDB 73
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person, Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control, Multiple select
Genres RTS, Action, Shooter
Vehicles Tank, Helicopter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Wargasm on IGDB
Wargasm on MobyGames
Wargasm on Wikipedia

Key points

To install the game on 64-bit systems copy Setup.exe from this archive to the installation folder.

Availability

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

Essential improvements

Patches

Game data

Launcher settings.
Launcher settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Digital Image Design\Wargasm\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Detail settings.
Detail settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Control settings.
Control settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Added in Patch #2
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Speech, SFX and Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
The official multiplayer service was shut down.

Issues fixed

Game doesn't launch

Batch file[citation needed]
  1. Create file called WAR.bat in <path-to-game> and open it in text editor
  2. Add this line tank.exe hovappdata=.\WARGASM -ENGLISH
  3. Save it
  4. Launch the game through WAR.bat

Fullscreen mode doesn't work

Set Windows 98 compatibility mode on tank.exe and didcfg.exe

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.0 compatible 		8 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. ↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

References