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Armed Forces Corp.

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Armed Forces Corp.
Armed Forces Corp. cover
Developers
City Interactive
Engines
Lithtech Jupiter EX
Release dates
Windows February 27, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 7.3
IGDB N/A
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter
Art styles Realistic
Armed Forces Corp. on HowLongToBeat
Armed Forces Corp. on IGDB

As a member of a highly trained and heavily armed mercenary group called The Armed Forces Corp, you are to recover precious information located in a skyscraper overrun by well organized terrorists. Just remember, when money is involved... no one can be trusted.

-Use advanced warfare equipment, including night vision goggles, M84 flash bangs or S10 gas mask.

-Experience astonishing graphics, dynamic lighting, breathtaking effects and outstanding AI.

-Use modern firearms and special Ops techniques to quickly and efficiently locate and eliminate the enemy.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None


Essential improvements

4 GB patch

4 GB Aware Patch
Fixes several issues and improves game performance.
  1. Download and run either of these tools: 4GB Patch or Large Address Aware Tool

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos via the native config tool
  1. Navigate to the game's folder, open the Config.exe
  2. Move to the Options tab and tick the Disable Movies box.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %PUBLIC%\Documents\City Interactive\Armed Forces Corp

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %PUBLIC%\Documents\City Interactive\Armed Forces Corp

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Use dgVoodoo 2.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Start the game with +windowed 1 parameter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 16x
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Up to 4x FSAA. Soft shadows are not rendered when enabled.
See Anti-aliasing (AA) for an alternative. Users with an Nvidia graphics card can force high quality SGSSAA with the 0x004010C1 AA flag in the Nvidia Profile Inspector, or use dgVoodoo 2 for MSAA 4x.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Use SpecialK for more settings
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

4K Ultra HD

In-game FSAA setting must be set to Off before enabling 4K resolution, otherwise you will be stuck in a black screen. If this happens, reset resolution via settings.cfg. If you need AA at 4K, see Anti-aliasing (AA).

Field of view (FOV)

This game uses vertical FOV. See FOV Calculator for help.
Set custom FOV
  1. Go to the game's directory
  2. Create a file named autoexec.cfg with a text editor.
  3. If using a widescreen resolution add this line: "FovYWidescreen" "XX.00" where XX is the vertical FOV value. If using a non-widescreen resolution use "FovY" "XX.00"

Black screen on startup

The problem is related to incorrect codecs for intro videos.
Download and install K-Lite Codec Pack

Anti-aliasing (AA)

The Soft Shadows option will have no effect if the FSAA option is enabled.
MSAA solution (Nvidia only)
  1. Open the game and disable the FSAA option.
  2. Download and run Nvidia Profile Inspector.
  3. Search and open the game profile.
  4. Set Antialiasing Compatibility to 0x004000C1.
  5. Set Antialiasing Mode to Override any application setting.
  6. Set Antialiasing Setting to 8x Multisampling or your desired level of MSAA/CSAA.
  7. Apply changes. Do the same for the Extraction Point expansion.

Notes

May have a very negative performance impact even on modern systems.
Alternatively, SMAA is available through an injector.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

FSAA is unavailable in windowed mode. See Anti-aliasing (AA) for an alternative.
If this method doesn't work or causes issues, you can try Borderless fullscreen mode.
Set borderless fullscreen windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. Ensure the game's resolution matches your desktop resolution:
    • Launch the game.
    • Go to the game's Options > Display > Resolution and change it accordingly.
    • Close the game.
  2. Go to the game's directory.
  3. Create a file named autoexec.cfg with a text editor.
  4. Add "Windowed" "2" on a new line.

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish

Issues fixed

Slow loading level and aero disabling

Occurs only on Windows Vista and Windows 7, because of the special graphic stack WDDM.

{{Fixbox|description=Fix slow load level and spontaneous shutdown aero interface|fix=

  • Install game only on Windows XP, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.

Control key settings are not assigned

Keyboard settings reset to unassigned when you restart the game
Control key settings are not assigned fix
  • Need run game as Administrator

Soft Shadows not working

Soft Shadows not working but setting enabled
Soft Shadows fix
  • Need disable anti-aliasing in game options
This is due to the features of the engine and the artificial limitation of the simultaneous use of anti-aliasing with soft shadows, since they can cause graphic artifacts on the shadows.

Black screen on ATI/AMD graphics cards

Disable Soft Shadows and Pixel Doubling in the game's settings[citation needed]
Run the game in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3[citation needed]
Install RuntimePack.[citation needed]

Flickering textures on modern systems

Use dgVoodoo2 wrapper
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Unpack to <path-to-game> the following files: dgVoodooCpl.exe, MS\x86\d3d9.dll.
(nVidia only) Enhancing the in-game AA to SGSSAA may solve this issue as well. (further testing is required)

No dialogue playing

Enable/install Windows Media Player[citation needed]
  • Windows N/KN versions: install Windows Media Player.
  • Windows Vista and later: open the Start screen/Start menu, type OptionalFeatures.exe and press Enter. Then, ensure Windows Media Player is ticked.
  • Windows XP: press Win+R, type appwiz.cpl and press Enter, choose Add/Remove Windows Components. Then, ensure Windows Media Player is enabled in the list.

No gunshot sound

Install Creative Alchemy[citation needed]
  1. Install Alchemy.
  2. If using a non-Creative sound card, use GenericALchemyDerestrictor as well.

Key mappings are not assigned

Run the game as administrator

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9 For 11-12 use dgVoodoo 2.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio EAX Unified, Windows Media Player

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP/2000 or WindowsVISTA
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 1024 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4.0 GB of free hard drive space for installation
Video card (GPU) GeForce 6600
Radeon 9800PRO
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX DirectX 9.0c or higher (included on the DVD) compatible
Quad speed DVD-ROM, 16-bit sound card with EAX 2.0 compatible with DirectX 9.0


References