All our games prior to Universal Combat Collectors' Edition, do not support widescreen resolutions (e.g. 1280x720, 1920x1080, 1680x1050 etc) natively.

If you have a monitor with a resolution (e.g. 1680x1050) that the game does not display in CONFIG, you can force this resolution by doing the following UNSUPPORTED steps.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. 3000AD, INC IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ADVERSE EFFECTS OR MISHAPS WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THIS MODIFICATION

1. If the game is running, quit and return to the desktop
2. Using Notepad or similar text editor, and depending on the title, load the BCCONFIG.INI, GAME_CONFIG.INI or UCCONFIG.INI file located in the game install folder.
3. Search for the line that looks something like "Resolution=800x600" and change the resolution to the one you want e.g. Resolution=1280x720
4. Save the file and exit.
5. Restart the game. If your video card has sufficient memory to run at that resolution, the game will work fine. If not, the display will be incorrect. In which case, quit and go back and set the resolution to one that works.

NOTE:

1) The higher the resolution you set, the slower the game will run

2) If you want to reset the resolution back to the default, delete the .INI file you modified and restart the game. A new one with defaults will be created at startup.

All of our games work with Vista and Windows 7, though our legacy (pre-Vista) are not officially supported.

You will need an Administrator account to install and run our games. If your account is not an Administrator, you will need to locate the game EXE, right-click to go to the Properties and choose "Run as administrator".

This also applies to download version as well or it won't install. In which case, locate the file you downloaded and run it is Administrator as well.

By default the number of HARDWARE AUDIO CHANNELS is set to 0. This disables hardware audio. e.g. the Soundblaster Audigy2 has 64 channels, while the X-FI has 128. Some cards report the number of channels incorrectly and this can cause problems.

The default setting is adequate for sound cards which support hardware 2D/3D sound acceleration. Hardware audio acceleration helps with game processing. However, in some cases the audio card can run out of hardware channels. When this happens during periods of intense battles (e.g. in an intense first person battle), some sounds (e.g. your weapon) will tend to cut off (e.g. you can only hear the weapon fire every other shot).

You can alleviate the issue by disabling hardware audio processing entirely. This will not result in a noticeable performance degredation because the game's audio mixer is very fast.

To disable hardware audio processing, go to the game's configuration screen and set the number of HARDWARE AUDIO CHANNELS to 0. Quit and restart the game for the changes to take effect.

Most game crashes are a result of the following

1. Trying to play the game on a system that does not meet with the game's system requirements.
2. Trying to install or run the game without Administrator priviledges. You need an Administrator account to install and play our games.
3. Applying  a patch incorrectly. e.g. if you bought the game from Direct2Drive, do not use a patch described as being for any other version (e.g. Digital River version).
4. Tinkering with the game's data files. Just don't do it. The game will detect this. Then it will break.
5. Tinkering with the game's copy protection. Don't do that either - or very bad things will happen. They won't be obvious to you.

Game crashes are also usually a result of outdated or missing drivers. These include motherboard, audio and video card drivers. Here is a checklist of things to check.

1. Check and update your motherboard BIOS and drivers to make sure that you have the most recent and updated versions.
2. Check and update your audio card drivers
3. Check and update your video card drivers
4. Install Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c End-User Runtime
5. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86 or x64 depending on your Operating System)
6. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86 or x64 depending on your Operating System)

Also, don't mess with the game's graphics options unless you know what you are doing!!

If you have All Aspect Warfare or Angle Of Attack, the following applies to you.

The game was optimized to run at 720p (1280x720) or 1280x768 with the default graphics settings.

We the developers know what is justified for our game and which isn't. You, the gamer, aren't expected to know that but rather to make assumptions as to what you think is acceptable.

Its like your car. You see the speedometer can go to 200 km/h - at which it (due to dynamics) becomes highly unstable - so they dont' expect you to be going any higher than the speed requirements set by common sense, the law etc. Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should.

So, if we were to lock the graphics options and screen resolutions to what we believe to be acceptable standards - and not allow you to change them - you'd be very upset because now you have a computer which - you believe - can handle anything. Which of course it can't, but its OK to think otherwise. Which is why most games don't let you do that. They lock it. On the consoles, you have no choice. So no matter if your HDTV is 1080p compliant, your games will run - and in some cases upscale - to 720p.

The game sets the minimum requirements for the game to run. If you don't mess with it, then everything is fine.

If you want to increase those settings, you can - and in which case, you're on your own.

If are going to be mess with settings that are not developer recommended, you should do it carefully and in stages until you hit the sweet spot. I would do it in this order. You do one, test, then do the next and so on.

1. DISPLAY RESOLUTION
2. TEXTURE FILTERING
3. TEXTURE QUALITY
4. SHADOWS
5. LIGHT SHAFTS
6. FSAA

When doing the above, be sure to read the manual which describes the impact of each.

Light Shafts are the most expensive options.

FSAA will completely fail depending on your driver version, amount of memory you have on the video card and the other graphics options you have set.

And if you have on-board audio, the HARDWARE AUDIO CHANNELS should be set to 0. Though you can do 3D audio processing in hardware, most sound cards have crappy support for this - so you may want to still have this set to 0 even if you have a discreet (i.e. PCI, PCIe etc) sound card.

Doing the above, you can check the fps using either our own display CTRL+F12 or something like Fraps.

Stop when you get to the point where it becomes acceptable and stable.

If you mess things up, reset everything either within the game's options screen or by deleting the configuration files. A new one with defaults will be created next time the game is started.

If you own the standard version, go to the game install folder and delete the GAME_CONFIG.INI file.

If you own the Steam version go to the steamapps\common\all aspect warfare or steamapps\common\angle of attackfolder and delete the GAME_CONFIG.INI file.

This aplication has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem

If you get this or a similar error when you try to run the game or you bought the game from Steam and it says that the product is not available, try these steps:

Game crashes are also usually a result of outdated or missing drivers. These include motherboard, audio and video card drivers.

From an Administrator account, install the following Microsoft Updates

1. Check and update your motherboard BIOS and drivers to make sure that you have the most recent and updated versions.
2. Check and update your audio card drivers
3. Check and update your video card drivers
4. Install Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c June 2010 End-User Runtime
5. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86 or x64 depending on your Operating System)
6. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86 or x64 depending on your Operating System)

And if running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, install this as well

Microsoft KB972036 August 2009 Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Update

Then run Windows Update and reboot if prompted.

If you are running a 64-Bit Operating System, you need to be aware of the following:

1. You must be running from an Administrator account. If you are not - and are running Vista - then you need to right-click on the AAW.EXE or AOA.EXE file and select "Run as Adminstrator"
2. Make sure that your drivers are all up to date. This includes motherboard, video and audio drivers
3. Make sure that you run Windows Update to ensure that you are running the lastest Service Pack and all updates for your OS
4. Read KB article #28 and install the updates mentioned their.

The game automatically sets the default game config settings. The minimum system requirements are

# Intel Pentium 4 3.4Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3.0GHz

 * Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 or better recommended
 * AMD X2 6000+ or better recommended

# 1GB RAM (XP). 2GB (Vista)
# 256MB graphics card w/ Shader Model 3.0 support. 512MB or higher recommended

 * nVidia GeForce 7900. GeForce 8600 GTS or better recommended
 * ATI Radeon X1300. Radeon HD2900 XT or better recommended

While you can change the graphics options, you must know what you are doing or you can mess things up badly.

When trying to reach the sweet spot, change each of the options separately, run the game, check the frame rate (CTRL+F12), quit, change the next one.

1. DISPLAY RESOLUTION
2. TEXTURE FILTERING
3. TEXTURE QUALITY
4. SHADOWS
5. LIGHT SHAFTS
6. FSAA

Some options require you to quit the game completely and restart from the Windows desktop.

A word of warning about FSAA. It requires A LOT of memory. So if you are running at a high res and with the other options all maxed out, you won't be able to run any FSAA option with less than 512MB of video card memory. If you do this, the game will eventually crash at some point. e.g. running at 1920x1080, everything maxed out in the graphics option and setting 4X FSAA on a card with 256MB video card memory can and will crash the game.

If you do mess things up, you can use the RESET option in the graphics screen to reset everything. If that fails, you can manually delete the file that stores this information by doing one of the following:

Standard Version

Go to the folder where the game is installed (e.g. C:\Program Files\3000AD\All Aspect Warfare)  and delete the GAME_CONFIG.INI file. When  you restart the game, a new one wil be created with the defaults.

Steam Version

Go to the Steam folder where the game is installed (e.g. C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\All Aspect Warfare)  and delete the GAME_CONFIG.INI file. When  you restart the game, a new one wil be created with the defaults.

If you are playing on a stats server (will have STATS in the server description) and your tracks are not being tracked, please check the following.

• That you are joining the server using the GameLobby app. Your stats will only be tracked if you joined the server from this app.
• Go to the game install folder and from a CMD console window, type GameLobby.exe /regserver to register the app.

If you don't see the characters when inputting your name in the New Game screen, then you may have a problem with your video driver graphics settings.

See KB9

We no longer support legacy games which were released via Direct2Drive and GamersGate. Only Digital River and Steam releases are now supported.

If you have the Steam version, the installer should do a silent install of these, though for some reason it doesn't always do it.

If this fails for whatever reason (e.g. OS permissions, anti-virus settings etc), please follow this procedure to install them.

Look in the Steam's game install folder e.g.

C:\Program Files (x86)\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\All Aspect Warfare\

C:\Program Files\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\All Aspect Warfare\

C:\Program Files (x86)\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Angle Of Attack\

C:\Program Files\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Angle Of Attack\

There you will see aaw_steam_shortcuts.exe or aoa_steam_shortcuts.exe

Please run that file to do a silent install of the docs and other resources (e.g. cheat codes!)

You can then locate this folder in Start/Programs/3000AD/

ONLINE LINKS

ALL ASPECT WARFARE

http://3000ad.com/downloads/aaw/GAME_CHEATS.PDF
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aaw/GAME_KEYS.PDF
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aaw/GAME_KEYS_01.JPG
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aaw/GAME_KEYS_02.JPG
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aaw/GAME_KEYS_03.JPG
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aaw/GAME_KEYS_04.JPG
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aaw/GAME_MANUAL.PDF
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aaw/GAME_TUTORIAL.PDF
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aaw/LV-115MAP.PNG

ANGLE OF ATTACK

http://3000ad.com/downloads/aoa/GAME_CHEATS.PDF
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aoa/GAME_KEYS.PDF
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aoa/GAME_KEYS_01.JPG
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aoa/GAME_KEYS_02.JPG
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aoa/GAME_KEYS_03.JPG
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aoa/GAME_MANUAL.PDF
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aoa/GAME_TUTORIAL.PDF
http://3000ad.com/downloads/aoa/LV-115MAP.PNG

If you have an monitor with a native res that is higher than the res at which you want to run the game (e.g. 1680x1050) and you run the game at lower resolutions e.g. 720p, it will look poor due to the monitor doing all kinds of crazy scaling.

You should try running the game in a window. If you want full screen, then you should set the game's resolution in config/option to be the same resolution as your display.

To force a resolution not shown in the config/option screen see the KB10 article.

• ALL ASPECT WARFARE / ANGLE OF ATTACK

Edit the game shortcut and add -w to the end of the command line

• UNIVERSAL COMBAT SERIES

Edit the game shortcut and add -w to the end of the command line

• GALACTIC COMMAND ECHO SQUAD

Edit the game shortcut and add -w to the end of the command line

• BATTLECRUISER MILLENNIUM

Edit the game shortcut and add -w1 or -w2to the end of the command line

• BATTLECRUISER 3000AD

This is an MS-DOS title. Window mode not supported.

The game does not support voice chat built-in, but GSC which we included with the game works great. It even supports both of our newer games so you can launch a game from within the LAUNCH menu.

So we figured, why re-invent the wheel?

The GSC installer is included with the game. Just run the GSCsetup.exe program located in the Steam game install folder or use the shortcut located in START/PROGRAMS/3000AD/ALL ASPECT WARFARE if one exists. Or you can download it from http://www.getgsc.com

We recommend GSC because it is very simple to setup and use. Plus you can create private voice servers for your group if you want to. All of it much simpler than Ventrilo and Teamspeak.

Since it also has built-in IM chat (which works inside the game as well, just like the Steam overlay), you can also use that instead of the game's built-in chat if you so choose.

Anyway, the procedure is as follows

1. Install GSC. Then go to Help and "Check For Updates"
2. Run GSC and setup it up to use your microphone.
3. If you are using PTT (Push To Talk) - which is recommended - make sure to bind the key to one not already used by the game. I use the ` (tilde) key.
4. Go to the VOICE tab and press +ADD, select BY SEARCHING. Then type in 3000AD and press SEARCH to show the 200 person public voice servers we have setup.
5. Pick one or both of the detected servers and choose ADD SELECTED TO in order to add to your quick list
6. Join the designed voice chat server
7. Launch the game

With the servers added to your quick list, you can now join the voice server prior to joining a game server.

If after you install a new version the Steam version of the game no longer runs, your Anti-Virus (AV) program (e.g. NOD32) may be at fault. In which case, you will need to add the Steam.exe client as well as the steamapps/common folder to your Anti-Virus program exclusion list.

Then use Steam's "Verify game file integrity" option in order to ensure that all the game files are correct and not quarantined by your AV program.

If you still can't get it to work, either get a new AV program or try running the program by running either AAW.EXE or AOA.EXE directly from the steamapps/common folder using Explorer.

Also read this related KB topic

The game's GAME_CONFIG.INI file is used to store many game options such as resolution, controllers etc. If this file is missing, the game will create a new one with default values.

If you feel that you have config related issues (e.g. unexplained crashes, glitches after changing game options), then you can try deleting this file so a new one can be created by the game.

1. Quit to Windows
2. Locate (see valid locations below) and delete the GAME_CONFIG.INI file
3. Restart the game

Depending on your game version and installation (x86, x64) the game's config file can be located in one of the following locations.

e.g.

Standard Version:

C:\Program Files (x86)\3000AD\Galactic Command - Echo Squad SE\

C:\Program Files (x86)\3000AD\Angle Of Attack\

C:\Program Files (x86)\3000AD\All Aspect Warfare\

Steam Version:

C:\Program Files (x86)\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Galactic Command Echo Squad SE\

C:\Program Files (x86)\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Angle Of Attack\

C:\Program Files (x86)\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\All Aspect Warfare\

NO SERVERS LISTED IN BROWSER

The master servers went offline in 2011. So multiplayer was disabled in the game's main menu and can no longer run. There are currently no plans to update it any further.

In order to play multiplayer, all clients have to revert to the previous version listed below. Then use the commandline option to connect to a player that's hosting a game. You can also use the console server to run your own server. Because the server is a small app, you can run it on the same machine as the client. See the multiplayer docs for more info.

GALCOM ECHO SQUAD SE

2.11.07

ALL ASPECT WARFARE

1.00.39

ANGLE OF ATTACK

1.00.39