Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

Delta Force
Delta Force	1998
Delta Force 2	1999
Delta Force: Land Warrior	2000
Delta Force: Task Force Dagger	2002
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down	2004
Delta Force: Xtreme	2005
Delta Force: Xtreme 2	2009

Key points

Master servers were shut down. Playing multiplayer is now only possible using GOG.com version, GameRanger or Novaworld.cc.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 4 DRM.
GamersGate
GOG.com		Platinum Pack (No included soundtrack CD files)
Green Man Gaming
Steam

Version differences

The Gold Pack includes the base game and the Team Sabre expansion pack.
The Platinum Pack includes the base game, the Team Sabre expansion pack, their respective strategy guides by Prima, and the soundtrack CD.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Team Sabre

Essential improvements

Patches

Delta Force - Black Hawk Down - General Update updates the game to the latest version. Team Sabre already includes this patch.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\dfv.cfg^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32670/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\dfvplr.sav^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32670/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Set the resolution with dgVoodoo2
Field of view (FOV)	Use this CheatEngine table.
Windowed	Launch the game with `/w` parameter. Resolution of 640x480 and Windowed mode can make the game unplayable.^[1]
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Setting might be disabled (force in the graphics card control panel).
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	Main menu capped at 65 FPS.

Widescreen resolution

The game natively supports only 4:3 resolutions. It's possible to get the game running in widescreen mode by editing bytes directly in exe file.

Modify and use UniWS^[2]

Launch the game and let it test the display.
Quit the game.
Download and extract UniWS.
Edit patches.ini.
Replace its content with:

THE INI IS BELOW 
[Apps] 
version=1.03 

a0=Delta Force Black Hawk Down / Delta Force Black Hawk Down - Team Sabre

[Delta Force Black Hawk Down / Delta Force Black Hawk Down - Team Sabre] 
details=Requires 1.5.0.5 version.
checkfile=dfbhd.exe
modfile=dfbhd.exe
undofile=dfbhd.backup
sig=EB42BF00040000BE00030000EB36BF
sigwild=0000000000000 
xoffset=3 
yoffset=8 
occur=1

Save changes and run uniws.exe.
Go to the installation folder or use the Find it for me... button.
Type in your desired resolution and click Patch.
Launch the game and choose 1024x768 resolution.

Notes

This hack works with both base game as well as expansion pack.

Image is Vert-.

Menus, FMVs and most of HUD elements are stretched.

Only 2 out of 3 messages fit the chat space after applying the hack.

Does not work with the Steam version of the game (replacing dfbhd.exe with the GOG version solves this problem).

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Does not pause on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian				Released by FX Interactive
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish				Released by Cenega
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish				Barely a few voice lines are not translated
Swedish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		50	Versus, Co-op For co-op, use Anaconda's Server Manager.
Online play		64	Versus, Co-op The official multiplayer service was shut down; use the NovaHQ lobby (already applied to the GOG.com version).

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting		Run the game with the `/serveonly` parameter.^[3]
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Can not recover password/account details (bug: emails not being sent)

In 2008, Novalogic updated their website. This caused few minor glitches on DFBHD websites that in-game browser is using.

Use Novaworld Community Beta website^{[citation needed]}
Go to the lost password form. Enter the email address of the Novaworld account.

Issues unresolved

Anti-aliasing option is disabled

On some configurations, option for full screen anti-aliasing is disabled. There is no known fix for it. Only alternative is forcing different AA settings from graphics card control panel.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1
Shader Model support	1.1, 1.3

Executable	PPC	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink
Multiplayer	NovaWorld

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 733 MHz	Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	860 MB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia TNT2 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	Nvidia GeForce 5 series 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible

The Team Sabre expansion pack increases the HDD requirements to 1.4 GB

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.2.6
Processor (CPU)	PowerPC 74xx PowerPC G4
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	800 MB
Video card (GPU)	3D accelerator 32 MB of VRAM
Other	2x DVD-ROM drive

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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).
↑ ^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>/32670/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (32670) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Verified by User:Stealthradon on 8 June 2014
The world spins around the player at very high speeds
↑ Delta Force: Black Hawk Down | WSGF - last accessed on 2017-04-10
↑ Novahq.net Forum - View Single Post - bhd dedicated server

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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).

[Proton_path_note-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>/32670/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (32670) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[3] Verified by User:Stealthradon on 8 June 2014
The world spins around the player at very high speeds

[4] Delta Force: Black Hawk Down | WSGF - last accessed on 2017-04-10

[5] Novahq.net Forum - View Single Post - bhd dedicated server

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[Note 2]

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Developers

	NovaLogic
Expansion	Ritual Entertainment
Publishers
2003-2016	NovaLogic
2016-present	THQ Nordic
Engines
	Black Hawk Engine
Release dates
Windows	March 24, 2003
macOS (OS X)	July 2004
Reception
Metacritic	77
IGDB	68
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter, Tactical shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Africa, Contemporary
Series	Delta Force