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Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter

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Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter cover
Developers
Totally Games
Publishers
LucasArts
Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows May 1, 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Space flight
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Star Wars: X-Wing
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Star Wars: X-Wing
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars: X-Wing 1993
Star Wars: TIE Fighter 1994
Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter 1997
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance 1999

General information

A joystick or controller is required to run the game.
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Includes the Balance of Power expansion.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes the Balance of Power expansion.
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Includes the Balance of Power expansion.
Windows
Origin
Origin
Includes the Balance of Power expansion. Included with EA Play Pro. Currently only visible in the EA App's Browse menu.
Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Balance of Power
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for the base game is 1.1.4, and is available at Patches-Scrolls and soggi.org.
This patch is already included in the Balance of Power expansion pack.

vJoy

Allows to use mouse and keyboard or modern controllers in game.
Bypasses joystick requirement to run the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Config.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\BalanceOfPower\config2.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/361690/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\*.plt[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\BalanceOfPower\*.pl2[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/361690/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

Singleplayer graphics settings (multiplayer settings menu is identical but settings are separate)
Singleplayer graphics settings (multiplayer settings menu is identical but settings are separate)

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Keyboard doesn't allow piloting craft.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse only usable in menus.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Required to run the game; this can be bypassed with a tool such as vJoy.
Full controller support
Controller only usable in-flight.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Sound settings
Sound settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Announcements concerning capital ship status don't appear in mission log.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Alt+Tab is not supported
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Retail only
Spanish
Retail only. Download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Versus, Co-op
Co-op campaigns (Rebel and Imperial).
Online play
8 Versus, Co-op
Co-op campaigns (Rebel and Imperial).
The official multiplayer service was shut down.

Connection types

Issues fixed

Game installer won't run under 64 bit Windows

The installer is 16-bit and does not work by default on 64-bit systems.
Use Markus Egger's installer; note that each disc and expansion has its own downloads and subpages.
Run the installer through WineVDM


Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5
Glide
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
XP, Vista, 7, 8 (Steam)
Processor (CPU) Pentium 90
1.8 GHz (Steam)
Pentium 100 (LAN/modem play)
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
1 GB (Steam)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 MB
487 MB (Steam)
Video card (GPU) PCI graphics card
DirectX 7 compatible
Sound (audio device) 16-bit sound card


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/361690/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (361690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References