AH-64 Apache Air Assault

Operation Air Assault
AH-64 Apache Air Assault	2003
Apache Longbow Assault	2004

Warnings

RenderWare games may not work on Windows 11 24H2 or later without using a DirectSound wrapper (see the engine page for details).

AH-64 Apache Air Assault is a singleplayer first-person and third-person action, FPS, simulation and TPS game in the Operation Air Assault series.

It was released as Operation: Air Assault in Europe.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Simple disc check.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Config.dat^{[Note 1]}

Game's settings are stored in binary file format. See Config structure for more information.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Pilots.dat^{[Note 1]}

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix to set a custom FOV value.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix^[1]

Hex-edit Vr.exe^[2]

Open Apache.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
Press Ctrl+F and set datatype to Text-string.
Set Search direction to All.
Press Search all.
Search for 640.
Left double click the result 640 x 480 x 32.
Under the Decoded text column, change either of the resolutions, depending on the preferred resolution (xxx x yyy, xxx x yyyy or xxxx x yyyy), the file size has to be same in the end or the game will crash at startup.
Save the file.
Go in-game and in the video options, choose the new resolution, it will be in effect only when gameplay starts, since the main menu is resolution locked.

Notes

Lower vertical FOV at wider aspect ratios (Vert-). Increase the FOV to compensate, use the Widescreen & FOV Fix.

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
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

↑ ^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).