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How to: Fix Submarine Explosion Bug + Autosave

By Goober

This guide walks you through fully & properly resolving the submarine explosion bug in Red Faction by installing the Alpine Faction patch.

This patch also makes the game run properly on modern computers, fixes countless bugs, adds autosaving, widescreen support, anti-aliasing, window modes, and much more.

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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Installing Alpine Faction

The below video explains the simple process of installing the Alpine Faction patch, which fully resolves this submarine explosion bug WITHOUT limiting your FPS/framerate, reducing your system performance, or having to deal with wonky workarounds.

Alpine Faction also add autosaving, widescreen compatibility, and windowed/borderless modes, among many other useful features.

NOTE: If you don't feel the need to watch the video, the steps in the installer are very straightforward. You can download the installer at https://alpinefaction.com

If you run into trouble, check out:
- Alpine Faction Help Resources: https://www.redfactionwiki.com/wiki/Alpine_Faction_Help
- FactionFiles Community Discord: https://discord.gg/factionfiles

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SleepBird 🌱 14 Mar @ 3:50pm

I ended up using Dash Faction just to get past the submarine, but then launched the game normally right after I got the sub cause I don't like the updated HD text in the menus or differently scaled HUD elements or other little changes like that. The nice thing is Dash Faction (and probably Alpine Faction too) is a secondary launcher for the same .exe file, so I don't need to copy paste save files over to a Dash Faction directory or anything like that in order to "fix" them. The only issue I had so far running it vanilla on Steam in the year of our Lord 2025 was the submarine thing, and I already killed Capek so I don't see any more issues arising.

AranwenL 24 Jun, 2024 @ 9:18pm

ty for this, was super confused on why it blew up.

Goober [author] 17 Dec, 2022 @ 7:11am

ozoomaroo: You're almost correct on the cause - the game's timers speed up based on frame time. The script for the sequence causes the submarine to drop after a specific delay (2.75 seconds), but when the framerate is higher, the delay is reduced slightly, causing the submarine to drop before the crane has finished moving. The crane then moves through the submarine's collision mesh and destroys it.

It's definitely a bug :p

ozoomaroo 17 Dec, 2022 @ 5:56am

Well its not really a bug Whats actually happening is the game was only designed for 30 FPS and every pc is out puting at 60. due to the FPS balance it explodes.