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Castle Wolfenstein

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Castle Wolfenstein
Castle Wolfenstein cover
Developers
Muse Software
Release dates
DOS 1981
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control
Genres Stealth
Themes World War II
Series Wolfenstein
Castle Wolfenstein on HowLongToBeat
Castle Wolfenstein on IGDB
Castle Wolfenstein guide on StrategyWiki
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Castle Wolfenstein on Wikipedia
Castle Wolfenstein 1981
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein 1984
Wolfenstein 3D 1992
Spear of Destiny 1992
Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2001
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 2003
Wolfenstein 2009
Wolfram (unofficial game) 2012
Wolfenstein: The New Order 2014
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood 2015
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 2017
Wolfenstein: Youngblood 2019
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot 2019
RealRTCW (unofficial mod) 2020

Castle Wolfenstein is a singleplayer bird's-eye view stealth game in the Wolfenstein series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Improve performances in DOSBox

Edit DOSBox configuration file
  1. Set machine=svga_s3 to machine=tandy or pcjr.
  2. Set memsize=16 to memsize=00.
  3. Set xms, ems and umb to false.
  4. Set cycles=auto to cycles=100.
Exact cycle amount may vary from computer to computer. For more info see 4.77 MHz, DOSBox wiki.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\ctrls

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\CASTLE
<path-to-game>\CW.EXE
CASTLE contains rank & castle progress.
CW.EXE contains inventory and map location.
Pressing Esc returns you to the main menu and saves your inventory and location. Terminating the game process while playing will reset both data (similar to being caught or dying). Rank and castle are not affected by this.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Only able to switch between two control types.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard only menus.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Joysticks only.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
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
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, Tandy

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 1.1
Processor (CPU) 8088 or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 64 kB
Hard disk drive (HDD) N/A: game is booter and runs off disk
Video card (GPU) CGA


References