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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X

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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X cover
Developers
Ubisoft Romania
Windows Ubisoft Ukraine
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows March 17, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 70
IGDB 74
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Vehicle combat
Vehicles Flight
Series Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X on HowLongToBeat
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X on IGDB
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X guide on StrategyWiki
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X on MobyGames
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X on Wikipedia
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Subseries of Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2009
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 2010

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person vehicle combat game in the Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X series.

Access to DirectX 10 features requires running a separate executable.[1]

General information

Official series forums
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
No third-party DRM, CD-key for online play.[2]
Windows
Ubisoft Store (unavailable)
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Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
None of the multiple DLC packs released on console are available for PC.
A faithful, higher quality icon can be found on SteamGridDB.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.02 for retail and digital versions can be found on Patches-Scrolls.[3]

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Movies
  2. Delete or rename Clancyman_720p.bik, d_geoeye.bik, disclaimers.bik, logo_wide.bik, rating.bik, teaser_logo.bik and UBIPresents.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X\Profiles
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/21900/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X\Profiles
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/21900/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

In-game graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Centered HUD.
Ultra-widescreen
[5]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Off/2x/4x/8x options available.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Volume settings.
Volume settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects, music and voiceovers are fully adjustable and mutable.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Cutscene dialogue is automatically subtitled, but in-game voiceovers cannot be subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Audio muted when player uses Alt+Tab .
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Retail only.
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4 Versus, Co-op
Online play
4 Versus, Co-op
Online functionalities have been discontinued on October 6, 2015.[6]

Connection types

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
2D
Game is currently 2D only with vorpx. Playing 2D does not require any game profile.
Devices
TrackIR
Supports: Yaw, Pitch, X, Y, Z

Issues fixed

Crash on launch (Steam)

Some Steam users have reported issues with the game (especially the DirectX 10 executable)[7] such as black screening on launch, forcing them to end the process using Task Manager.[8]
Disable Steam Community in-game[8]
  1. Right-click on the H.A.W.X icon in the Steam library.
  2. Select "Properties" and uncheck "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game".
  3. Close the window and launch the game.
Force Windowed mode[citation needed]
A secondary cause is the game launching at an incorrect/unusable resolution.
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X\Profiles
  2. Open _settings_0.1.525.ini in a text editor.
  3. In the [Video] section, set windowd = true.
  4. Save the file.

Consistent freezing

Game freezes every minute or so for upwards of 20 seconds.
Disconnect from the Internet[9]
Disconnecting the computer from the Internet whilst in singleplayer appears to resolve this issue.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c, 10
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP1
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP)
2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce FX 5900
ATI Radeon 9800
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/21900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (21900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References