Return to Castle Wolfenstein

I bought this game on sale recently (August 2018). One odd thing was the screen resolutions didn't include 1920x1080, so a quick search found the unofficial patch to 1.42d. It's a bit risky to patch unofficially, so I made a backup of the entire game first. After installing the patch, more Wide Screen resolutions were available, including 1920x1080. That is a pretty common resolution to use these days. The game shows these as "WS" resolutions in the options menu, and they pop up after normal resolutions. The game worked just fine with the 1.42d patch for me under Windows 10. For its age, the game looks great and runs very well, especially compared to my experience with it 15+ years ago. As I recall, it was struggling on my computer at the time at a much lower resolution. Now it's all nostalgia, plus a much improved gaming experience at a reasonable price and no DRM. Heck of a deal.

The original Wolfenstein 3D is a very nostalgic game for me. After all, it introduced me to World War 2 at the tender age of 6. If I had to be honest, though, I'd say RtCW holds up better by modern standards. When you think about it, it really did improve upon Wolfenstein 3D in every way that matters. This was one of the last great, fast-paced "run n' gun" shooters" before Halo came out and slowed the FPS genre down to a sluggish crawl. The game's graphics still look decent today, thanks to Id Software's legendary Quake 3 Engine. There are minor stealth elements in the game like kinda like The New Order has (though not quite as polished), and the mission variety is diverse enough to keep things fresh. If you like Quake 1+2's singleplayer campaigns or Unreal Gold, this is a must-have in your library.

RTCW is an awesome game,that still holds up quite well kicking classic N@z1 butt! It WILL play on modern PC's and if you are experiencing the Black Screen and Crashes at start-up. Follow this. - Search for "Markshan Return to Castle Wolfenstein v1.42d" and download his patch. Its in a 1.57Mb zip file. This will address some known crashes and some bug fixes. Open the Zip and drop those in the base folder of where you installed the game. - go to the install director [Return to Castle Wolfenstein\Main\] and open wolfconfig.cfg in a text editor. - Change the following Lines for Widescreen support (change XXXX and YYYY to your prefered resolution i.e. 2560 and 1440) seta r_customaspect "1" seta r_customwidth "XXXX" seta r_customheight "YYYY" seta r_mode "-2" seta cg_fixedAspect "2" - Change your Frame Rate [Warning - playing at anything above 60fps on modern PC's will impact the Enemy A.I.'s ability to fight against you, blame the engine for actually utilizing the CPU. They will be more accurate and aimbot-like. It would be advised to keep the frame rate between 30 and 50 fps] IF you dont mind the challenge you can go up to 91 fps without needing support from a mod. seta com_maxfps "XX" Change this to prevent a Video glitch with the left corner of the screen taking over the entire screen. Set it to "1" seta r_glIgnoreWicked3D "1" Add this line to prevent Frame Drops in modern PC's seta r_primitives "2"

If you only own one Wolfenstein game, make it this one. No other game in the series had the right mix of gameplay, music or pacing like this had. It's simply ID's finest hour. The best, and it can even be improved more via the Venom or RealRTCW mods. Look for them, and others, on ModDB.

Greate game, however it doesn't work on the latest Windows version, to be able to run the game the patch must be applied: https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw