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America's Army: Proving Grounds

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America's Army: Proving Grounds
America's Army: Proving Grounds cover
Developers
Army Game Studio
Publishers
U.S. Army
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows October 1, 2015
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives First-person
Genres FPS
Series America's Army
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America's Army: Proving Grounds is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person FPS game in the America's Army series.

Key points

The official servers will be shut down on May 5, 2022[1]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

Essential improvements

Skip intro and loading videos

Delete or rename video files[2]

Delete or rename all files in <path-to-game>\AAPG\AAGame\Movies

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.
In-game crosshair settings.
In-game crosshair settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\America's Army Proving Grounds\AAGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/203290/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/203290/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Input

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Audio

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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
24 Versus
Online play
24 Versus

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio FMOD, Fonix TTS, OpenAL
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer Steamworks
Anti-cheat PunkBuster [3]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Quad Core
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) 512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/203290/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (203290) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. AA:PG Shutdown - America's Army Forum - last accessed on 2022-02-09
  2. Verified by User:Zach Fett on 2022-03-23
  3. Even Balance, Inc. - PunkBuster Online Countermeasures - last accessed on May 2023