Alpine Faction Help

This page lists frequently asked questions and other associated resources for the Alpine Faction patch for Red Faction.

Frequently Asked Questions

A community-made, actively developed, free, modernizing, open source patch for the 2001 FPS game Red Faction (1) that seeks to fix bugs, resolve security vulnerabilities, improve compatibility with modern hardware and operating systems, restore cut content, and improve the user experience by adding long-desired modern features. Alpine Faction empowers players, designers/modders, and server operators to control and customize and enhance their gameplay experience as they wish.
Alpine Faction is a fork of Rafalh's Dash Faction project. As such, it includes all open source functionality from that project, plus many additional features and enhancements.

Alpine Faction requires an installed copy of Red Faction (PC). Any retail (disc) or digital (Steam, GoG, etc.) distribution will work, in any localization/language.

The path to your RF.exe file - it will most likely be correct without you needing to change it. If it's blank though, or incorrect, you must click "Browse", and locate your RF.exe file inside your Red Faction folder. For Steam installations, this is usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Red Faction\RF.exe and for retail installations, it's usually C:\games\RedFaction\RF.exe
If a prompt appears stating "Detected Red Faction version is not directly supported by Alpine Faction", click OK. The necessary patches will automatically be installed for you.

If you're still running into trouble or have any remaining questions (or if you just want to chat with other Red Faction players and fans), you should join the Red Faction Community Discord. You can either click the Discord link in the Alpine Faction launcher or click here to join.
Once you join, visit the #alpinefaction-support channel.