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Army Men: Sarge's War

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Army Men: Sarge's War
Army Men: Sarge's War cover
Developers
3DO
Windows Tactical Development
Publishers
Global Star Software
Russia 1C Company
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows July 20, 2004
Reception
Metacritic 37
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres TPS
Series Army Men
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Army Men: Sarge's War 2004

Army Men: Sarge's War is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person TPS game in the Army Men series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 5 DRM
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\sage.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Locked at 800x600.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Can be forced using dgVoodoo or graphics card's driver.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Can be forced using dgVoodoo or graphics card's driver.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Issues may occur if exceeding 60 frames per seconds.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

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
Full controller support
Controller remapping
The game recognises all axis available on the controller but can only use first four of it, due to settings resets after leaving the settings menu. Analogue triggers also can't be mapped to actions.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
DualShock 4 controllers
Generic/other controllers
Button prompts
Tutorial and in-game prompts only refers to series of action corresponding based on mapped buttons
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Flickering game window/won't enter fullscreen properly

Use dgVoodoo2[1]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and the contents of the MS\x86 folder into <path-to-game>.
  3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe, select the DirectX, tab, uncheck dgVoodoo Watermark. and Application controlled fullscreen/windowed state.
  4. Apply settings.

Problem installing the CD/DVD version

The installation process fails with the message "The wizard was interrupted before Area 51(R) could be completely installed".
Start the installation manually using the command console
  1. Open the first CD or DVD in a new window to view its contents.
  2. Inside the window while holding Shift press the right mouse button and select "Open command window here" or "Open PowerShell Here".
  3. In the command console type msiexec /i "Army Men Sarge's War.msi" /qb and press Enter.

Notes

Default installation folder is C:\Program Files\Global Star Games\Army Men Sarge's War for 32 bit systems and C:\Program Files (x86)\Global Star Games\Army Men Sarge's War for 64 bit systems.

High Fps Issues

Limit framerate to 60 FPS
Set the monitor refresh rate to 60 Hz.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III
AMD Athlon 450 MHz or Intel Celeron / AMD Duron 733 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible
Other 8x CD drive or 1x DVD drive


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).

References

  1. Verified by User:Fudgesiclesxd on 2022-01-17
    Brought to attention by Cefernia on Discord. I've also test the game both on older Windows hardware and my current Debian system