Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate

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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate
Subseries of Warhammer 40,000
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate	1998
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters	2022

General information

Lexicanum - A huge wiki for the Warhammer 40,000 series

Warhammer 40,000 Chaosgate Cinematic Trailer - BoLS

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Uses GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper and IPX configuration tool as of 27 April 2022.

Essential improvements

Patches

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate Updates contains all the currently released patches for the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save_G^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy		Enabled on 27 April 2022.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		4:3 resolutions only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		GOG's custom wrapper unable to switch to windowed mode.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Full rebinding in the options menu.
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
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues unresolved

Tooltip performance issues

Hovering tooltips can slow down the game immensely.

Issues fixed

Game runs very slow on Windows 10 (retail)

Use Elisha's Windows 10 Patch^{[citation needed]}
Download the Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Gate Windows 10 Patch. Unzip the files to the installation folder.

Music volume and animation stuttering fix for Windows 10 (retail)

Follow the procedure^{[citation needed]}

In the main menu, press "O" to get into the options menu
Press "S" to disable music
Press Enter to save and exit
Quit the game
Open the Registry Editor in Windows and go to the following address: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\Machine\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\RandomGames\WH40K\1.0
Set the value for Music to Yes, value data for Music Volume to 50 (or whatever you like), and Unit Animation Speed to 88 (or whatever you like)
Go to <path-to-game> and change the WH40k.exe file to WH40.exe
Start the game and close it again.
Re-open the Registry Editor, go to the following address: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
Change the Value data for the Wh40.exe entry to: $ DWM8And16BitMitigation 8And16BitTimedPriSync 8And16BitAggregateBlts Layer_ForceDirectDrawEmulation
Start the game.

Game crashes on startup

Comptability mode^{[citation needed]}

Enable the following compatibility settings for WH40K.exe located in <path-to-game>.

Compatibility mode Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
Run in 256 colors (XP/Vista/7)
Disable visual themes (XP/Vista/7)
Disable desktop composition (XP/Vista/7)
Disable display scaling on high DPI settings
Run this program as an administrator

Crash to desktop on Chaos turn

Editing WeapDef.dat^{[citation needed]}

Make a backup of the WeapDef.dat file before editing.

Go to <path-to-game>\Data\
Open WeapDef.dat with a text editor.
Go to line 201 and change PlazPistHit.wav to PlazpistHit.wav.
Save changes.

If the crashing persists change the following lines as well

Go to line 165 and change 4 #Animation to 5 #Animation.
Go to line 200 and change 2 #Number of Sound Effects for Firing to 1 #Number of Sound Effects for Firing.
Go to line 202 and add # to the beginning of the line.

Game crashes on mission start

Instructions^{[citation needed]}
The installation path can only have 2 subfolders and 35 characters total. If the game crashes, place the installation folder closer to the root drive. (e.g. Instead of installing to C:\GOG Games\WH40K Chaos Gate, try creating/installing to a location such as C:\Chaos Gate or C:\WH40K)

Graphical corruption

See Rainbow color problems in older games for solutions.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Smacker Video Technology
Multiplayer	Winsock

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 133 MHz or Equivalent
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	80 MB
Video card (GPU)	2 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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

[gamedir-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).

[Note 1]

Developers

	Random Games Inc.
Publishers
	Strategic Simulations Inc.
	GOG.com
Release dates
Windows	October 31, 1998
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Strategy
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate