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Worms Forts: Under Siege

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Worms Forts: Under Siege
Worms Forts: Under Siege cover
Developers
Team17
Publishers
Sega
Release dates
Windows November 19, 2004
Reception
Metacritic 60
IGDB 40
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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General information

Unofficial Worms Wiki
Dream17 Softography
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Uses SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Can be toggled in the GOG.com release.
Use the /NOMOVIES command line argument[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\GOG\WormsForts\config.ini
%PROGRAMDATA%\GOG.com\Galaxy\support\1207659170\1207659170\userappdata[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\SaveGame.xom[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

External options menu (GOG.com release only).
External options menu (GOG.com release only).

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Windowed

Use the /WIN command line argument[citation needed]

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.
In-game key/button map settings.
In-game key/button map settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game language settings.
In-game language settings.

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Disable music

Use the /NOMUSIC command line argument[citation needed]

Disable speech

Use the /SHUTUP command line argument[citation needed]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Local retail version only. Also fan translation available.
Italian
Spanish
Polish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
16 Hot seat, Versus
LAN play
4 Versus
Online play
Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

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

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 1.4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz		 Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 1.4 compatible
DirectX 9.0c compatible 		128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible
Supported ATI chipsets: 8500, 9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X800
Supported Nvidia chipsets: GeForce2 Series, GeForce3/Ti Series, GeForce4 MX Series, GeForce4/Ti Series, GeForce FX Series, GeForce 6 Series
Supported Martrox chipsets: Parhelia

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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