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Worms 4: Mayhem

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This page is for the original game. For the 2011 enhanced remake, see Worms Ultimate Mayhem.

Worms 4: Mayhem
Worms 4: Mayhem cover
Developers
Team17
Publishers
Codemasters
Re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows August 5, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 71
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Artillery, Strategy
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Comedy
Series Worms
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Worms 4: Mayhem on Wikipedia
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Worms Rumble 2020

Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Worms 4: Mayhem is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person artillery and strategy game in the Worms series.

General information

Dream17 Softography

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
US: SecuROM 7 DRM
Europe: StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Free demo versions are available from GameFront: singleplayer, multiplayer.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch v1.01 (#2) are the latest patch available

Anniversary Patch

This patch contains:
  • Proper aspect ratio (Hor+ or Vert+)
  • FPS unlock
  • Windowed borderless mode
  • Enabling all available languages
  • Changing GameSpy server address (openspy.net preconfigured)
  • Changing GameSpy MOTD URL
Supports only the Euro v.3013 version of the game.

Skip intro videos

Use the /NOLOGOMOVIE command line argument[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\SaveGame.xom[Note 2]

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Voiceovers in the storyline are gibberish so subtitles are always on; in gameplay, only worm responses are heard.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Disable music

Use the /NOMUSIC command line argument[citation needed]

Disable worm voices

Use the /SHUTUP command line argument[citation needed]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4
LAN play
4
Online play
4 GameSpy was shut down. Hex-edit Worms 4 Mayhem.exe to redirect all traffic to GameSpy alternative or use Anniversary Patch.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 5911, 6667, 28900, 29900, 29901
UDP 5911, 6500, 13139, 27900
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
OpenGL 1.4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 400 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0 compatible
Supported ATI chipsets: Radeon 9xxx.
Supported Nvidia chipsets: GeForce FX 5xxx.


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. 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