Armed and Dangerous

Key points

Game speed and physics may speed up on newer systems.

Missing multiplayer

General information

Availability

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GameData\SavedGames\options.opt^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6090/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Notes

This file cannot be opened with a standard text editor.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GameData\SaveGames^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6090/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video Settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use the WSGF community mods.
Multi-monitor		Use the WSGF community mods.
Ultra-widescreen		Use the WSGF community mods.
4K Ultra HD		Use the WSGF community mods.
Field of view (FOV)	Use the WSGF community mods.
Windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS	Runs too fast to play on 120 fps
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input Settings.

Audio Settings.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Cutscenes	DivX

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98se	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz	Intel Pentium IV 1.5 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1500+
System memory (RAM)	256 RAM	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Hardware Transform and Lighting (T&L) Compatibility 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible	Hardware Vertex and Pixel Shader (VS/PS) Compatibility 64 MB of VRAM
Other	4X CD-ROM	16X CD-ROM

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
↑ ^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>/6090/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (6090) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.