Space Rangers

Space Rangers
Space Rangers	2002
Space Rangers 2: Dominators	2004
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart	2013
Space Rangers: Quest	2016

Space Rangers is a singleplayer top-down view RPG and 4X game in the Space Rangers series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 5 DRM.
GOG.com (unavailable)
Steam (unavailable)

Essential improvements

Patches for retail version

v1.00 to v1.60 patches

1.7.2 patch for English, Czech and Russian languages

Smooth font replacement^[1]

smooth font

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\cfg.txt^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46320/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46320/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

video settings

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use https://github.com/CnCNet/cnc-ddraw
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen patch^[2]
Download the patch from PCGamingWiki. Unrar and start `SR1ResolutionPatch.exe` Select the game folder, preferred resolution and additional settings and click "Install". The patch will create a `RangersNewRes.exe` file, always start the game via this exe file to achieve widescreen. If game is crashes after patching add skip1c to launch parameters.^[3]

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio settings

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
Czech				Retail only.

Issues fixed

Running on newer systems

Set complitiablity mode^{[citation needed]}
Go to the your Space Rangers folder. Set the compatibility with Windows 98 for Rangers.exe file.

Black screen

Supply correct ddraw.dll^{[citation needed]}
Download ddraw.zip from the releases page here and unzip it into the installation folder.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 233 MHz	Intel Pentium III 733 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	256 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	300 MB	700 MB
Video card (GPU)	800x600 DirectX 7.0 compatible	1024x768

Intel graphics are not supported though they have been known to work on some systems.

Notes

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/46320/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (46320) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ [1] - last accessed on 2021-09-02
↑ [2] - last accessed on 2021-09-02
↑ [3] - last accessed on 2021-09-02

[gamedir-2] 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).

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/46320/.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (46320) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/46320/.

[5] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[6] The app ID (46320) may differ in some cases.

[7] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[8] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[1] [1] - last accessed on 2021-09-02

[4] [2] - last accessed on 2021-09-02

[5] [3] - last accessed on 2021-09-02

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[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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Developers

	Elemental Games
Publishers
	Micro Application
Russia	1C Company
Release dates
Windows	December 20, 2002
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Top-down view
Genres	RPG, 4X
Themes	Space, Sci-fi
Series	Space Rangers