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Revision as of 13:40, 26 November 2022
This page is for the original 2001 version. For the 2015 re-release, see Worms World Party Remastered.
Developers | |
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Team17 | |
Publishers | |
North America | Titus Interactive |
Europe | Virgin Interactive |
Russia | Russobit-M |
Re-release | Sold Out Software |
Release dates | |
Windows | April 6, 2001 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 75 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Turn-based |
Perspectives | Side view |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Artillery, Strategy |
Series | Worms |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Worms | 1995 |
Worms 2 | 1997 |
Worms Pinball | 1998 |
Worms Armageddon | 1999 |
Worms World Party | 2001 |
Worms Blast | 2002 |
Worms 3D | 2003 |
Worms Forts: Under Siege | 2004 |
Worms 4: Mayhem | 2005 |
Worms Reloaded | 2010 |
Worms Crazy Golf | 2011 |
Worms Ultimate Mayhem | 2011 |
Worms Revolution | 2012 |
Worms Clan Wars | 2013 |
Worms 3 | 2014 |
Worms World Party Remastered | 2015 |
Worms W.M.D | 2016 |
Worms Rumble | 2020 |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
General information
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- A demo is available.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Service Pack 1 (version 1.01) is the first and only official patch for the game.
WWP Compatibility Fix
- DirectDraw emulation is broken in Windows 7 and later, breaking graphics and lowering performance.
- Fixes bug where unable to type name in multiplayer and all graphical issues.
Install the WWP Compatibility Fix[3] |
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Alternatively use a DirectDraw wrapper[4] |
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- There are other alternative workarounds for the palette problems; see Rainbow color problems in older games for details.
Game data
Configuration file location
System | Location |
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Windows | %WINDIR%\WWP.ini[Note 2] HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Team17SoftwareLTD\WormsWorldParty |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\User\Teams\WG.WWP[Note 2] <path-to-game>\User\SavedLevels[Note 2] <path-to-game>\User\Schemes\[Note 2] |
- Teams and singleplayer progress are stored in
<path-to-game>\User\Teams\WG.WWP
- Saved landscapes are stored in
<path-to-game>\User\SavedLevels
- Saved schemes are stored in
<path-to-game>\User\Schemes
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | Use the Widescreen resolution and Windowed fixes. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | No letterboxing for open islands, letterboxed to 1916x854 in caverns. |
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4K Ultra HD | No letterboxing for open islands, letterboxed to 1916x854 in caverns. |
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Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Use the Windowed hack and set Border to 0 in the .ini file. |
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Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Use the Windowed hack, use VerticalSync in the .ini file. |
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60 FPS | Capped at 60 FPS. | ||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Widescreen resolution
- ReSolution plugin
- Supports resolutions up to 32767x32767
- Letterboxing starts at sizes greater than 6012x2902 for open-island maps, and 1916x854 for closed-cavern maps
- Supports multi-monitor setups and zooming with the alternative windowed hack (see below) and manually adjusting the total screen resolution in the settings file
- Alt+↵ Enter will optionally switch between borderless fullscreen window fill and a nonfullscreen window.
Windowed
- Install the unofficial WWP Compatibility Fix.
- To enable windowed mode, set
WindowedInGame
(for the gameplay process) and/orWindowedFrontend
(for the pre-game menu screens to1
in the settings file). - Windowed mode resolves the color issues and improves performance on modern systems.
- Can be combined with the ReSolution plugin to change the window dimensions, zoom and resize the game
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Short of worm responses, there is no speech. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Uses DirectSound defaults. Can be force-disabled using the Windowed hack with UseFGCGetForegroundWindow" set to 1 in the .ini file. |
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Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Danish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Fan translation. | |||
Hebrew | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Local retail version only. | |||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Swedish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 6 | Hot seat |
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LAN play | 6 | |||
Online play | 6 |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
- No port information; you can edit this page to add it.
- This game supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, ME, 2000 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 100 MHz | Intel Pentium 200 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 300 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ http://www.tus-wa.com/?topic=21030
- ↑ https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat