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Combat Zone: Special Forces

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Combat Zone: Special Forces
Combat Zone: Special Forces cover
Developers
City Interactive
Publishers
City Interactive
Engines
Lithtech Jupiter EX
Release dates
Windows 2010
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles Realistic
Combat Zone: Special Forces on IGDB
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Combat Zone: Special Forces on MobyGames

Warnings

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

Combat Zone: Special Forces is a multiplayer third-person action, FPS and shooter game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Simple disc check.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %PUBLIC%\Documents\City Interactive\COMBAT ZONES - SPECIAL FORCES\

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %PUBLIC%\Documents\City Interactive\COMBAT ZONES - SPECIAL FORCES\Save\

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Hor+.
Multi-monitor
Hor+
Ultra-widescreen
Hor+
4K Ultra HD
Hor+.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Start the game with +windowed 1 parameter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FSAA up to 4x.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

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

Issues fixed

Slow loading level and aero disabling

Occurs only on Windows Vista and Windows 7, because of the special graphic stack WDDM.
Fix slow load level and spontaneous shutdown aero interface
  • Install game only on Windows XP, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.[2]

Notes

Using Windows 8.1 or 10 significantly reduces the launch time of the level, perhaps this is due to improvements in the WDDM graphics stack.[3]

Control key settings are not assigned

Keyboard settings reset to unassigned when restarting the game.
Run the game as administrator

Soft Shadows not working

Disable anti-aliasing in the game options

Notes

This is due to the features of the engine and the artificial limitation of the simultaneous use of anti-aliasing with soft shadows, since they can cause graphic artifacts on the shadows.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1, 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 500 MHz Intel Pentium III or better
AMD Athlon or better
System memory (RAM) 64 MB 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 400 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible 		64 MB of VRAM


References