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Renegade X

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Renegade X
Renegade X cover
Developers
Totem Arts
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows February 26, 2014
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Shooter, TPS
Vehicles Flight, Helicopter, Tank
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
Series Command & Conquer
Renegade X on IGDB
Renegade X on Wikipedia
Command & Conquer 1995
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1996
Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor 1997
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun 1999
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 2000
Command & Conquer: Renegade 2002
Command & Conquer: Generals 2003
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 2007
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 2008
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising 2009
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight 2010
OpenRA (unofficial) 2010
Command & Conquer (2013) Cancelled
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection 2020
Renegade X (unofficial) EA

This page is for the fan-made multiplayer remake of Command & Conquer: Renegade. For the original, see Command & Conquer: Renegade.

Key points

Misleadingly low frame rate on the main menus.
The singleplayer-only build, known as Renegade X: Black Dawn, is no longer updated.

General information

Official forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
Multiplayer only
Windows
Official website
DRM-free
Singleplayer only build Renegade X: Black Dawn, is no longer updated.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Check Skip intro movies in Renegade Launcher Settings[citation needed]
Launch game with -nostartupmovies parameter[citation needed]
Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Renegade X\UDKGame\Movies.
  2. Delete or rename UDKFrontEnd.udk_loading.bik and UE3_logo.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Engine\Config\*.ini[Note 1]

Video

Basic video settings
Basic video settings
Advanced video settings
Advanced video settings

Widescreen resolution

The custom resolution will be reset once any graphical settings are changed.
Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Open the console with (~).
  2. Set the desired values through the setres command as such setres 2048x1152.

Field of view (FOV)

This will bring the fov up to a maximum of 120.
Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Open the console with (~).
  2. Set the desired values through the fov field command as such fov 115.

Input

Input settings
Input settings

Mouse acceleration

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\RenagedeX\UDKgame\Config\UDKinput.ini.
  2. Set the following line to false.
bViewAccelerationEnabled=FALSE

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
56

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Join IP in the game's launcher OR
In-game open the console (~) and use open followed by the IP and port.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit added in the 5.29 update.[1]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Shader model 3.0 support
These requirements are for the singleplayer version only, system requirements of the multiplayer version are also available.


Notes

  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