Jane's Fighters Anthology

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Jane's Fighters Anthology

Developers
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows	May 1, 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Simulation, Vehicle combat
Vehicles	Flight
Themes	Contemporary
Series	Jane's Combat Simulations

Jane's Fighters Anthology is an amalgamation of Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters with its NATO Fighters expansion as well as Jane's US Navy Fighters '97. It is considered the most stable Windows port of both. Additionally, it includes LHX Attack Chopper on disc one.

The game suffers compatibility issues on modern systems; see Essential improvements section to resolve them.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Disc 1 is needed for installation and playing the campaign. Disc 2 is used for the Reference menus to view information about the aircraft in the game.

Essential improvements

Official patch

The official 1.02F patch provides improvements for multiplayer and enables the weapon view window to function properly. It also fixes game speed problem on modern systems. It can be found on JKPeterson.net and GameFront

Tackleberry's patch

Tackleberry's Patch removes the disc check, fixes all images including bitmaps (.BMPs), ranks, and scroll menus, and fixes support for Windows Vista and 7 (though 8.1 and 10 were observed to work as well).

Fixing rainbow colors

The game uses DirectDraw and suffers from rainbow colors on modern systems, a common issue with older games. See DirectDraw troubleshooting for a fix.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\PltXXX.p

Pilot profiles (XXX.p) from Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters Gold can be used.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 are the only supported resolutions.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		FOV increases with resolution but cannot be toggled.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Use DXGL and force anisotropic through the Configurator for DXGL.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Use DXGL and force antialiasing through the Configurator for DXGL.
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)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration		Mouse is only used in menus and cockpit buttons and thus no acceleration is needed.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Mouse is only used in menus and cockpit buttons and thus no y-axis inversion is needed.
Controller
Controller support		Supports a select few common 1990s joysticks and any joystick reported by Windows.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Stall Warning, RWR, Engine, Weapon Lock, and Radio all have volume sliders, along with a Master slider.
Surround sound
Subtitles		All radio messages are subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play		8	Eight players are supported only in dial-up connections. Direct IP is limited to four.
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	1971

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues unresolved

Crash to desktop

The game will rarely randomly freeze, invert colours and then crash to the desktop. There is no fix for this.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	5

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Fighters Anthology Tool Kit

The Fighters Anthology Tool Kit enables users to edit all variables in the entire game, change airbase locations on maps, extract LIBs and create custom LIBs.

Realism Patch

The Realism Patch adds additional jets, adds a custom anti-cheat system for multiplayer and more.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 90 MHz	Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB	145 MB
Video card (GPU)	640x480 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible	1 MB of VRAM