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Warpath

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Warpath
Warpath cover
Developers
Digital Extremes
Publishers
Groove Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 2.5
Release dates
Windows July 18, 2006
Warpath on Wikipedia

Key points

The master server has been shut down. Single player with bots, LAN and practice mode still works.
Warpath is based on Pariah's engine and some tweaks for Pariah will work on Warpath too.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
Retail
DRM details are not known
DVD-ROM
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\System\Warpath.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 1]

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

DefOpenAL32.dll works as DirectSound3D driver which can be used with DSOAL to restore EAX. Warpath EAX 4.0 support is buggy as of DSOAL v1.31a.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Flashing screen glitch when running on modern hardware

This is caused by setting Visual Effects to maximum value and whenever something explodes in-game.
Instructions[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\System\
  2. Open Pariah.ini
  3. Add HasNVidiaTexM32Tex=1 line to the secton [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice] or if it's already present set it to 1

Low FOV

Instructions[2]
  1. Press the "~" key
  2. Type in FOV XX. Where "XX" is, type your desired value
  3. Change should take effect immediately unless user is in a menu

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
16
LAN play
16
Online play
Master server is not available anymore

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III or an AMD Athlon equivalent
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 100% DirectX 9.0 compatible 64MB hardware accelerated video card and the latest drivers (note that the game uses Direct3D 8 API though)

Notes

  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).

References