America

America

Developers
	Related Designs
Publishers
	Data Becker
Release dates
Windows	January 15, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Isometric
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RTS
Themes	North America, Western

Key points

Also known as America: No Peace Beyond the Line and A*M*E*R*I*C*A.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		ProtectDISC Software v3 DRM

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
America: Expansion Pack

Essential improvements

Patches

1.02 is the latest version. It fixes random crashes that may occur on 1.00 but also comes with new problems. See Resolution troubles.

Skip intro videos

Instructions
Go to <path-to-game>\America.ini Set intro=1 to intro=0

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\America.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save <path-to-game>\Save2 for the Expansion Pack

Video

Settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Resolution troubles.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Game needs to be launched with DXWnd
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed and Resolution troubles.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Windowed

Instructions
Go to <path-to-game>\America.ini Set FullScreen=1 to FullScreen=0

Resolution troubles

Overview

Widescreen resolutions are supported by default. The game always tries to stretch the display in fullscreen mode, if the resolution does not fill the entire screen. When patch 1.02 is applied to combat the random crashes on modern systems, any resolution above 1152x864 will crash the game when running in fullscreen mode. Resolutions up to Full HD work fine in window mode but the performance is considerably worse. Window mode will require the Windows color depth to be set to 16 bit instead of 32 bit to avoid the rainbow color issues. Performance can be increased by tweaking and launching the game with DXWnd

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

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music & SFX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

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

Issues fixed

Game refuses to launch

Instructions
Running the game in window mode usually solves that issue. See Windowed.

Terrible performance and mouse issues

Instructions
Disable the NVIDIA In-Game Overlay. Tweak and launch the game with DXWnd.

Issues unresolved

Crash upon saving in mission 5 of the Mexican campaign

There is a bug in mission 5 of the Mexican campaign that might prevent the player from saving their game in this mission since the game will suddenly start crashing upon each saving attempt and the created save file will be corrupted. This problem can reliably be reproduced on said mission on patch 1.02. The only known way around it is to win the mission without relying on saves.

Unit pathfinding becoming abysmal

Sometimes the pathfinding of all units on the map can become extremely slow or cause units to ignore orders and remain frozen. This is usually caused by the buggy AI trying to move their army to a spot they cannot reach or a destination very far away. Usually a big group of enemy troops can be found stuck together somewhere. Killing them typically restores the regular pathfinding behaviour.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible