Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
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Developers | |
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Ubisoft Montreal | |
macOS (OS X) | i5works[1][2] |
Publishers | |
Ubisoft | |
OS X | Aspyr Media |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 2 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | February 19, 2003 |
macOS (OS X) | September 29, 2004 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 91 |
IGDB | 85 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Stealth |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Contemporary, Asia, North America |
Series | Splinter Cell |
Splinter Cell | |
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Subseries of Tom Clancy | |
Splinter Cell | 2003 |
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow | 2004 |
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory | 2005 |
Splinter Cell: Double Agent | 2006 |
Splinter Cell: Conviction | 2010 |
Splinter Cell: Blacklist | 2013 |
General information
- Official Forums
- Splinter Cell Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability[edit]
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]. | |||
GamersGate | ||||
Gamesplanet | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | ||||
Ubisoft Store | Included with Ubisoft+. |
- SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- GOG.com and Uplay releases have broken support for EAX Advanced HD, falling back to EAX 2.0.
Demo[edit]
- A demo is available here. It includes parts from Police Station and Kalinatek missions.
Essential improvements[edit]
Patches[edit]
- The latest patch is 1.3. Digital distribution versions are already patched.
HD Textures from the PS3 version[edit]
Instructions[5] |
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Notes
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DLC missions[edit]
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Cutscenes from PS2 version[edit]
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Skip intro videos[edit]
Instructions[6] |
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Game data[edit]
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\system\[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13560/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\<user-id>[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13560/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing[edit]
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Ubisoft Connect |
Video[edit]
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Use ThirteenAG's fix. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | See Field of view (FOV). | ||
Windowed | Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See Anti-aliasing (AA). | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See Vertical sync (Vsync). | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Capped at 200 FPS. |
Widescreen resolution[edit]
Use ThirteenAG's Widescreen Fix[5] |
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Notes
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Field of view (FOV)[edit]
- Use either this or ThirteenAG's Widescreen Fix or the FOV will be too wide.
Edit SplinterCellUser.ini[7] |
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Notes
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Anti-aliasing (AA)[edit]
Override AA settings[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Force MSAA using dgVoodoo 2[5] |
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Notes
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Force SMAA using ReShade[5] |
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Notes
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Vertical sync (Vsync)[edit]
Edit SplinterCell.ini[5] |
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Input[edit]
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
Audio[edit]
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Ambient, voice, music and SFX. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Only in-game subtitles, not available in cutscenes. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 3.0[9]
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Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Russian | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. | |||
Spanish | Retail version, download. | |||
Polish | Local retail only, download. | |||
Hungarian | Fan translation. |
Issues unresolved[edit]
Sounds stop playing[edit]
- Sometimes when quicksaving or entering the menu (OPSAT) some looped sounds, like clock ticking or water running, can stop playing.
Instructions[5] |
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Vselka Infiltration - Stuck in control room[edit]
- In Vselka Infiltration mission after using the laptop in the control room the player can't get out, because the closed doors never open, since enemies that should open them can get stuck in the stairway.
Instructions[11] |
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Issues fixed[edit]
Broken shadows[edit]
- Due to relying on now-obsolete functionality in Nvidia GPUs, the default "buffer" shadows are broken on modern hardware.
Force projector shadows[edit]
- The game, when tweaked, supports projection shadows, which work on modern hardware.
Launch the game with -shadowmode=projector parameter[5] |
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Edit SplinterCell.ini[12] |
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Use dgVoodoo2 with default buffer shadows[edit]
Use dgVoodoo2[12] |
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Notes
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Stuttering during gameplay[edit]
Set splintercell.exe affinity to 1 CPU core[citation needed] |
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Game not detecting EAX support[edit]
Edit SplinterCellUser.ini |
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Notes
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VR support[edit]
3D modes | Native | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum. |
Other information[edit]
API[edit]
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 | |
Shader Model support | 1.4 |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | ||||
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Middleware[edit]
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Dolby Digital, DirectSound | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements[edit]
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98SE | ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 800 MHz AMD Athlon 800 MHz |
Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.5 GB | 2.1 GB |
Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 64 MB of VRAM |
- Supported ATI chipsets: Radeon 7500, 8500, 9000, 9500, 9700
- Supported Nvidia chipsets: GeForce 256, GeForce2 Ti/Ultra/Pro/GTS/MX400/MX, GeForce3 series, GeForce4 series
- The Matrox Parhelia is also supported
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.2.8 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC 74xx PowerPC G4 |
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System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Other | 2x DVD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[3] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[4]
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 3.0 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>/13560/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (13560) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Aspyr Media, Inc. Ships Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell For Macintosh - Business Wire - last accessed on 2016-7-23
- ↑ Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Ships for Mac - The Mac Observer - last accessed on 2016-7-23
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Verified by User:Antrad on September 21, 2017
- ↑ Verified by User:aaronth07 on 2017-9-05
- ↑ Splinter Cell | WSGF
- ↑ Dege's stuffs - dgVoodoo test results
- ↑ EAX Featured Game: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - EAX.CREATIVE.COM (retrieved)
- ↑ A Guide to Testing Positional Audio and EAX - EAX_QA.pdf (retrieved)
- ↑ Ubisoft Forums - Splinter Cell Vselka Infiltration bug
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Verified by User:Expack3 on 2016-09-14