Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas


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Rainbow Six: Vegas	2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2	2008
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Key points

The official multiplayer service is no longer available on PC.^[1]

General information

Ubisoft game page

Official Forum

Rainbow Six Wiki

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 7 DRM. Russian copies use StarForce 4 DRM^{[Note 1]}.
Gamesplanet
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam
Uplay		Included with Uplay+.

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on some versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Map Pack	Available for free. See Map Pack.

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

All the patches for the game can be found here.

Map Pack[edit]

The only official map pack for the game, it includes all the content from the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 DLCs ("Player's Pack Red Edition" and "Player's Pack Black Edition", 10 maps total).

It can be downloaded from PCGamingWiki.

Game data[edit]

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Engine\Config^{[Note 2]} %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ubisoft\R6Vegas\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13540/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ubisoft\R6Vegas\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13540/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
Uplay

Video settings[edit]

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		16:10 resolutions not supported natively. Use the resolution patcher. HUD is for 4:3 resolution regardless of setting. See HUD is in the 4:3 middle of the screen on wide resolutions.
Multi-monitor		Not natively supported. See instructions on Widescreen Gaming Forum.
Ultra-widescreen		Not natively supported. See instructions on Widescreen Gaming Forum.
4K Ultra HD
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 Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	Some animations are tied to frame rate; characters may twitch unnaturally when idle at high frame rates..to fix it active vsync and set your monitor hz in 60hz^{[citation needed]}

Anisotropic filtering (AF)[edit]

Anisotropic filtering^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open BaseEngine.ini.
Search and change LevelOfAnisotropy=4 to desired value.
Save your changes and close the file.

Remove the bloom/haze effects[edit]

This removes the bloom/haze but retains the thermal/night vision and other blur effects.

Remove effects^[4]

Go to <path-to-game>\Engine\Shaders\HLSL\MegaPostProcess\.
Open Blur.hlsl with a text editor.

Find this line.

return lerp(PreviousColor, BlurColor, Factor) + BloomColor;

Change it to this.

return lerp(PreviousColor, BlurColor, Factor);

Find the following lines.

float3 BloomColor = BlurColor * BlurScreenThresold.g + BlurScreenThresold.r;

BloomColor = max(BloomColor, 0.0f) * BlurScreenAmount;

Change them to this.

//float3 BloomColor = BlurColor * BlurScreenThresold.g + BlurScreenThresold.r;

//BloomColor = max(BloomColor, 0.0f) * BlurScreenAmount;

Input settings[edit]

In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		`↵ Enter` cannot be bound to commands. Mouse wheel scrolling does nothing and cannot be bound to commands.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		The game always uses the modified bullet collision data adopted for the mouse aim accuracy, see "Issues fixed" section to revert the game to the Xbox 360 version behaviour.
Full controller support		One time prompt to enable controller support, which cannot be answered with a controller.
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Uses the same toggle.

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings[edit]

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
Polish				Only available in Polish retail release.
Russian				Official localization by «Руссобит-М» – local retail only.
Russian				Fan translation by «SyS-team / Spirit Team»

Network[edit]

In-game multiplayer settings.

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Only on consoles.
LAN play	16	Versus, Co-op Co-op: 4 players.
Online play	16	Versus, Co-op Co-op: 4 players.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	80, 3074
UDP	3074-3174

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed[edit]

Game doesn't start[edit]

The game will not start through the launcher on some systems.

Startup Fix^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>\Binaries\ folder.
Open "runme.dat" in a text editor.
Change "R6Vegas_Launcher.exe" to "R6Vegas_Game.exe".

HUD is in the 4:3 middle of the screen on wide resolutions[edit]

The widescreen HUD in the fix is a leftover file from the Xbox 360 version and it causes the bugged cover sniper aim along with the UI shift to the left when used.

16:9 fullscreen HUD fix^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>\KellerGame\Content\MenusPC\
Delete or rename r6hud.mgb
Go to <path-to-game>\KellerGame\Content\MenusPC\Widescreen\
Copy r6hudWide.mgb to the .\MenusPC\ folder and rename it to r6hud.mgb

Restore the original bullet collision configuration[edit]

The game uses the modified bullet collision config adopted for the pinpoint mouse aim accuracy even when the controller is active.

No actual gameplay benefits with restoring it when you don't play the game with the gamepad.

Replace the "KellerWeaponsConfig.ini" file with the original Xbox 360 one^{[citation needed]}

Download the file and make sure to retain its original name and extension.
Go to <path-to-game>\Rainbow Six Vegas\KellerGame\Config\PC\ folder.
Backup your original "KellerWeaponsConfig.ini" file and place the new one instead of it.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
Shader Model support	3

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX
Cutscenes	Bink Video
Multiplayer	DemonWare, Rendez-Vous, Ubi.com
Anti-cheat	PunkBuster

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon 3000+	Intel Pentium 4 3.5 GHz AMD Athlon 3500+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	7 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support	256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support

Notes

↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.^[2]^[3] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
↑ 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).
↑ ^3.0 ^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>/13540/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (13540) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[4] This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.^[2]^[3] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.

[gamedir-5] 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-6] 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>/13540/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (13540) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Ubisoft: Discontinued Online Multiplayer Server List

[StarForce_Windows_8.1-2] Windows 8.1 support - StarForce Support

[StarForce_Windows_10-3] Windows 10 support - StarForce Support

[7] Rainbow Six Vegas (PC) - 3D Realms Forums

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Developers

	Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	November 28, 2006