General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- The Brothers in Arms Collection (released in Europe) is DRM-free and all 3 games have the latest patches integrated.[3]
- A free demo version is available from GameFront.
Monetization
Essential improvements
Patches
Patch 1.11 is the latest version.
Skip intro videos
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Instructions[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\Media.
- Delete or rename
LEGAL_EN.lte and Logos.bik.
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Fix for texture flickering, physics issues, EAX, mouse
Running this game without having made any modifications leads to flickering textures and major physics problems.
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Instructions[citation needed]
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- Edit
User.ini file in %APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>.
- Set
MouseSmoothingMode to 0.
- Set
bEnableEAX to true.
- Edit
bia.ini in the same folder.
- Set
DesiredRefreshRate to the refresh rate of your monitor.
- Set
UseDefaultDriver to false (this tells the Unreal Audio Engine to load OpenAL32.dll from the Windows\system32 folder which will result in a native OpenAL being used-[4]
- Set the game executable
bia.exe (in <path-to-game>\System) to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3 and as administrator. Then, set its core affinity to one CPU core.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
In-Game performance settings.
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Edit User.ini[6]
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- Go to
%APPDATA%\Gearbox Software\Brothers In Arms\<user-id>.
- Open
user.ini.
- Define FoV in following lines:
DesiredFOV=63.000000
DefaultFOV=63.000000
Notes
- Game could start to randomly reset those values. If so, edit those values in
<path-to-game>\system\DefUser.ini as well.
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Input
Audio
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DefOpenAL32.dll works as a DirectSound3D driver which can be used with DSOAL to restore EAX.
Localizations
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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| Czech |
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| Dutch |
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| French |
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| German |
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| Hungarian |
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Official translation for Steam and Uplay version here, also a fan translation is available |
| Italian |
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| Russian |
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Only in retail version. Patch for digital release here |
| Polish |
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Retail release only. For digital releases use this |
| Spanish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Ports
| Protocol |
Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
| TCP |
40000-43000 |
| UDP |
44000, 45000, 45001 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues fixed
Crash with garbled screen when changing resolution
Windows 10 (and possibly other versions) may also give the error "Application bia.exe blocked access to graphics hardware". This crash seems to be related to the intro videos.
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Instructions[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
bia.ini.
- Edit the following to desired resolution (they should all have the same resolution, eg. X=1920, Y=1080)
WindowedViewportX=WindowedViewportY=FullscreenViewportX=FullscreenViewportY=MenuViewportX=MenuViewportY=
- Follow the Skip intro videos steps.
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Other information
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| Direct3D |
9.0c |
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| Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
| Windows |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
| Audio |
OpenAL |
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| Cutscenes |
Bink |
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Modifications
- Rendroc's WarZone - a list of improvements ranging from a command mode similar to Hell's Highway and more effective AI to massive single player bot matches.
System requirements
| Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
2000 |
XP |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz |
Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz
AMD Athlon 2.5 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) |
512 MB |
1 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
3.5 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
| 64 MB of VRAM |
| macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
10.5.8 |
10.6.2 |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel 1.4 GHz
| Intel 2.4 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) |
1 GB |
3 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
3.6 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
128 MB of VRAM
| 512 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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 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>/15190/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15190) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
