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Sudden Strike

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Sudden Strike
Sudden Strike cover
Developers
Fireglow Games
Total War expansion INtex Publishing
Publishers
Cdv Software Entertainment
Kalypso Media Digital
Release dates
Windows January 24, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes World War II, Historical
Series Sudden Strike
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Sudden Strike is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric strategy game in the Sudden Strike series.

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)
SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1] in American release.
CopyLok DRM in European releases.
Windows
GamersGate
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Gold Edition.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Gold Edition.
Windows
Steam
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Gold Edition.
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Gold Edition.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
All of the versions aside from original CD release are missing in-game soundtrack.

Version differences

The Gold Edition includes the base game, the Forever expansion and the unofficial Total War: Sieg oder Niederlage expansion.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Sudden Strike: Forever
Windows
Total War: Sieg oder Niederlage Unofficial expansion, later included in compilations.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\sudtest.ini[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/612300/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SaveGames\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/612300/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only resolutions are 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768.
Sudden Strike HD Mod introduces 16:9 resolutions (as well as additional 4:3 and 5:4 resolutions).
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
[3]
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
[4]

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Local retail only.
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Celeron - 333 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 350 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible


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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/612300/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (612300) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References