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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway cover
Developers
Gearbox Software
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows October 7, 2008
Reception
Metacritic 79
IGDB 78
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter
Themes World War II
Series Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway on HowLongToBeat
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway on IGDB
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway guide on StrategyWiki
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway on MobyGames
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway on Wikipedia
Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 2005
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood 2005
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway 2008

Warnings

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

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM.
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Not available in Germany
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Included with Ubisoft+.
Windows
The Brothers in Arms Collection (released in Europe) is DRM-free and all 3 games have the latest patches integrated.[1]

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via Ubisoft+.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\SumacGame\Movies.
  2. Delete or rename Gearbox_logo.bik and Ubisoft_logo.bik.
  3. Delete or rename <path-to-game>\SumacGame\Splash\PC\Splash.bmp to remove the splash screen.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\BIA Hells Highway\SumacGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15390/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\BIA Hells Highway\SumacGame\SaveData\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15390/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect
[2]

Video

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution manually[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open SumacEngine.ini.
  3. Change ResX and ResY to the desired resolution.
  4. Change Fullscreen=True to Fullscreen=False for windowed mode.

Field of view (FOV)

Set custom FOV[3]
  1. Edit the in-game key bindings to use "zoom hold" instead of "zoom".
  2. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  3. Open SumacInput.ini.
  4. Under [Engine.InputActionDefinition] find the following line.
    Actions=(Id=IA_ZoomHold,Alias=".ZOOMHOLD",Names=("Zoom"),Command="ZoomIn | OnRelease ZoomOut")
  5. Change the line to the following where 100 is the desired FOV.
    Actions=(Id=IA_ZoomHold,Alias=".ZOOMHOLD",Names=("Zoom"),Command="ZoomIn | FOV 0 | OnRelease ZoomOut | OnRelease FOV 100")
  6. Under [SumacGame.SumacPlayerInput] add the following line.
    Bindings=(Name="F2",Command="FOV 0",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
  7. When a cutscene starts playing, press F2 to use the default FOV during cutscenes.

Notes

The FOV will lower when aiming to zoom in, then zoom out to your desired standard FOV on release.
This fix may possibly break sniper scopes.[citation needed]

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Set borderless windowed[citation needed]
  1. Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide.
  2. Start the game in windowed mode and press Ctrl+ Shift+← Backspace to toggle Special K's Control Panel.
  3. Expand "Window Management" and "Style and Position".
  4. Enable "Borderless" and "Fullscreen (Borderless Upscale)".

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Set AF manually[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open SumacEngine.ini.
  3. Change MaxAnisotropy=4 to MaxAnisotropy=16.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Force SGSSAA (Nvidia only)[4]
  1. Download and open Nvidia Profile Inspector.
  2. Open the Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway profile.
  3. Set Antialiasing Compatibility to 0x000010C1.
  4. Set Antialiasing Mode to Override any application setting.
  5. Set Antialiasing Setting to 4x Multisampling or your desired level of MSAA.
  6. Set Antialiasing Transparency Supersampling to 4x Sparse Grid Supersampling or your desired level of SGSSAA.
  7. Apply changes and close the program.

Input

Audio

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

Mute on focus lost

Set mute in background[citation needed]
  1. Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide.
  2. Start the game and press Ctrl+ Shift+← Backspace to toggle Special K's Control Panel.
  3. Expand "Window Management" and "Input/Output Behavior".
  4. Enable "Mute Game" under "Background Behavior".

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Retail only.
French
German
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Hungarian
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Italian
Polish
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Russian
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
14 Versus
Use Nucleus-Coop Unofficial mod.
LAN play
20 Versus
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[5] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile. Requires important pre-settings, see vorpx forum profile introdution. Note: in case of issues, please report to the vorpx forum.
Devices
3RD Space Gaming Vest

Issues fixed

Game doesn't start (General protection fault)

Update PhysX[6]
  1. Uninstall Nvidia PhysX System Software.
  2. Install the latest Nvidia PhysX System Software.

Vsync setting not applied

The Vsync option doesn't take effect until I exit the game and open it again.


Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium D 925 3.0 GHz
2.6 Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3 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>/15390/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15390) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References