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Revision as of 01:23, 29 May 2020

Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Mac OS (Classic) Lion Entertainment, Inc.
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS February 12, 1996
Windows February 12, 1996
Mac OS (Classic) February 12, 1996
Windows (DOSBox) April 3, 2012
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom guide on StrategyWiki
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom on MobyGames
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom on Wikipedia
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
CDs or DVD.
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
DVD version with compatibility fixes plus DOS version.
Windows
Origin
Origin
Included with EA Play.
Windows

Version differences

The GOG.com version includes both the DVD version and the original DOS version (available under bonus content).[1]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\WC4.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\WC4.CFG[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.WSG
Windows <path-to-game>\*.WSG[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
WSG_NDX.WSG is a save index and must be present to load saves.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video

Control Parameters (via Main Terminal).
Control Parameters (via Main Terminal).
In-flight settings (Alt+O).
In-flight settings (Alt+O).

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only; set in in-flight settings (Alt+O).
Surround sound
Subtitles
Disabled by default. DVD version has no subtitles for movies.[2]
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Only on retail CD version
German
Spanish

Issues fixed

Unable to encode MPEG-2 video on DVD version

This problem is due to the game being coded specifically for MPEG-2 decoder cards of the era, which are no longer necessary for most post-1999 hardware.
Not needed on GOG.com release.
Install DXMCI
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Extract the zip and put dxmci.dll in the folder, as well as replacing mpeg2.dll with the patched version.
  3. Set the game's compatibility mode to Windows 98.

Movies too quiet (GOG.com)

The GOG.com version's movies are much quieter than gameplay due to the AC3Filter configuration used.
Delete/rename AC3Filter folder[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename the AC3Filter folder. The default system decoder will now be used.
  3. If movies are still too quiet install AC3Filter and increase the Gain slider.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA, SVGA (VESA)
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) IBM 486DX4 75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) VESA-compliant SVGA (640x480)
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) IBM 486DX4 75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) VESA-compliant SVGA (640x480)
For DVD releases of the game, a Pentium MMX 166 MHz processor is recommended.
The higher quality DVD-Video release of the game only works with specific Creative MPEG-2 cards outside of the GOG.com release.
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) System 7.1
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 601
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 46 MB
Video card (GPU) 256-color compatible


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