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Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

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Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 cover
Developers
Gearbox Software
Publishers
Windows Ubisoft
OS X Feral Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows March 15, 2005
macOS (OS X) 2011
Reception
Metacritic 87
IGDB 92
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
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: Road to Hill 30 on HowLongToBeat
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 on IGDB
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 on MobyGames
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 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

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)
CD key
SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Only in Hungary.
Windows
Retail
DRM details are not known
Double Time. Bundled with Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood.
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Double Time. Bundled with Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood.
macOS (OS X)
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
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
The Brothers in Arms Collection (released in Europe) is DRM-free and all 3 games have the latest patches integrated.[3]
A free demo version is available from GameFront.

Monetization

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

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.11 is the latest version.

Skip intro videos

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Media.
  2. Delete or rename LEGAL_EN.lte and Logos.bik.

Fix for texture flickering, physics issues, EAX, mouse

Running this game without having made any modifications leads to flickering textures and major physics problems.

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Edit User.ini file in %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>.
  2. Set MouseSmoothingMode to 0.
  3. Set bEnableEAX to true.
  4. Edit bia.ini in the same folder.
  5. Set DesiredRefreshRate to the refresh rate of your monitor.
  6. Set UseDefaultDriver to false (this tells the Unreal Audio Engine to load OpenAL32.dll from the Windows\system32 folder which will result in a native OpenAL being used-[4]
  7. Set the game executable bia.exe (in <path-to-game>\System) to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3 and as administrator. Then, set its core affinity to one CPU core.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15190/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15190/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

In-Game video settings.
In-Game video settings.
In-Game performance settings.
In-Game performance settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
See Field of view (FOV).
Ultra-widescreen
See Field of view (FOV).
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Alt+ Enter
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
SGSSAA is available with 0x00401045 flag in Nvidia inspector
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Field of view (FOV)

Edit User.ini[6]
  1. Go to %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>.
  2. Open user.ini.
  3. Define FoV in following lines:
DesiredFOV=63.000000
DefaultFOV=63.000000

Notes

Game could start to randomly reset those values. If so, edit those values in <path-to-game>\system\DefUser.ini as well.

Input

In-Game input remapping.
In-Game input remapping.
In-Game key remapping.
In-Game key remapping.

Audio

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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software or OpenAL.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 3.0, EAX 4.0.
Royalty free audio
DefOpenAL32.dll works as a DirectSound3D driver which can be used with DSOAL to restore EAX.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Hungarian
Official translation for Steam and Uplay version here, also a fan translation is available
Italian
Russian
Only in retail version. Patch for digital release here
Polish
Retail release only. For digital releases use this
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
4
Online play

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 40000-43000
UDP 44000, 45000, 45001
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Crash with garbled screen when changing resolution

Windows 10 (and possibly other versions) may also give the error "Application bia.exe blocked access to graphics hardware". This crash seems to be related to the intro videos.

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open bia.ini.
  3. Edit the following to desired resolution (they should all have the same resolution, eg. X=1920, Y=1080)
  • WindowedViewportX=
  • WindowedViewportY=
  • FullscreenViewportX=
  • FullscreenViewportY=
  • MenuViewportX=
  • MenuViewportY=
  1. Follow the Skip intro videos steps.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL
Cutscenes Bink

Modifications

  • Rendroc's WarZone - a list of improvements ranging from a command mode similar to Hell's Highway and more effective AI to massive single player bot matches.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8
Processor (CPU) Intel 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.6 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM


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 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>/15190/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15190) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References