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Prisoner of War: World War II

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Prisoner of War: World War II
Prisoner of War: World War II cover
Developers
Wide Games
Publishers
Codemasters
Russia 1C Company
Release dates
Windows September 27, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 64
IGDB 70
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Stealth
Art styles Realistic
Themes World War II
Prisoner of War: World War II on IGDB
Prisoner of War: World War II on MobyGames
Prisoner of War: World War II on Wikipedia

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Prisoner of War: World War II is a singleplayer third-person stealth game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\options.wiv[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 2]

Video

Video Settings
Video Settings
Settings in-game.
Settings in-game.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only supports 4:3 resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Only supports 4:3 resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
Only supports 4:3 resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 32 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Use -res:x,y (Replace x and y for the desired width and height, respectively).[3]

Notes

Lower vertical FOV in widescreen. For Hor+ widescreen, check this page.
Minimap goes slightly out of the radar zone.

Input

Control Settings
Control Settings
Settings in-game.
Settings in-game.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Can't be disabled.
Mouse sensitivity
Resets after game restart.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Sound Settings
Sound Settings
Settings in-game.
Settings in-game.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Missing/corrupted geometry

Untick SWVP ( Software Vertex Processing ) in the startup launcher[4]

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III or IV 500 MHz
AMD Athlon 500 MHz		 Intel Pentium III or IV 800 MHz
AMD Athlon 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.1 GB 1.26 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible 		32 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) 16-bit DirectX 8.1 compatible
Other 8X CD-ROM 24X CD-ROM
Supported 3D Chipsets: 3Dfx Voodoo 3/4/5; ATI Rage 128 Pro, Radeon; Matrox G400/G500/G550, Parhelia; Nvidia GeForce, GeForce 2/3/4


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 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).

References