Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance

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Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance cover
Developers
Totally Games
Publishers
LucasArts
Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows February 28, 1999
 
 
 
Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars: X-Wing 1993
Star Wars: TIE Fighter 1994
Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter 1997
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance 1999

Key points

A controller is required for playing the game - without it, the game won't even start.
Installing on 64-bit systems requires a workaround. See Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows.
Locked at 24fps.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
X-Wing Wiki With lots of useful information
X-Wing Alliance Upgrade project Community dedicated to replacing every ship in the game with updated models/textures.

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
 
 
GOG.com
 
 
Steam
 
 

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Latest official patch

Official font set. Fixes garbled fonts on certain resolutions.

Includes a bunch of .bat-files that make useful tweaks to the game. Requires game to be patched to 2.02 to work.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config.cfg

Save game data location[edit]

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\<user-id>.plt

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Video settings.
Video settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
Game is locked at 30 FPS.
120+ FPS
Main-menu is always rendered at 640x480.

Widescreen resolution[edit]

Install XWAHacker[citation needed]
  1. Download XWAHacker and extract it to the installation folder.
  2. Run changeres.bat. The program will ask you to pick a resolution to modify.
  3. Pick 800x600.
  4. Next input the horizontal resolution you want when prompted and then the vertical.
  5. Now go the game and pick 800x600. The game will then run at the resolution you specified.
  6. To further improve graphics and performance also run 32bitmode.bat. Keep in mind that this messes up the colors of in-game menus though.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)[edit]

Patch the graphics to 32-bit before forcing AF from the level of graphical drivers. See Widescreen resolution.

Anti-aliasing (AA)[edit]

Patch the graphics to 32-bit before forcing AA from the level of graphical drivers. See Widescreen resolution.

Forcing antialiasing might make in-game fonts distorted, to prevent that, enable "Alternate Pixel Centers" if you have an ATI card. Alternatively, force Supersampling anti-aliasing (SSAA) to resolve font distortion.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Required to run the game.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
For XInput controllers see XInput force feedback vibration in DirectInput games.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
A3D 1.0 (2.01 update mandatory)

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
4

Issues fixed[edit]

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows[edit]

Installing a game using alternative installer

The game installer is a 16-bit program meaning it will not run natively on a 64-bit machine.

  1. Go to Markus Egger website and grab the appropriate installer (note that there is one for the German version of the game and one for the English/Italian).
  2. Follow the instructions here to create a fixed disc.

Notes

If the autostart-menu doesn't pop up run SETUP.EXE directly from the disc.
Run the game from XWINGALLIANCE.EXE not ALLIANCE.EXE

Graphical corruption when running in 3D-accelerated mode[edit]

Install XWAHacker[citation needed]
  1. Download XWAHacker (requires game to be patched to 2.02 to work)
  2. Extract it to your game-folder.
  3. Run fixedclear.bat.
  4. Your .exe should now be patched to fix this issue. You can also try downloading this ddraw.ddl and put it in the installation folder.

Interface flashes rapidly[edit]

Turn off Crossfire/SLI[citation needed]
  • If you're using Crossfire/SLI - turn it off.

Fonts in-game are messed up[edit]

Replace fonts[citation needed]
Change anti-aliasing[citation needed]
  • Text corruption might also be caused by forcing anti-aliasing (to prevent that, enable "Alternate Pixel Centers" if you have an ATI card).

Can't activate 3D-audio[edit]

Edit settings of Creative Alchemy

If you're a using creative sound card and have Alchemy installed try adding the following to it:
[Star Wars X-Wing Alliance]
RegPath: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\X-Wing Alliance\v1.0\Install

Path
Buffers=5
Duration=10

Can't enable 3d acceleration[edit]

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 or 98 95 or 98
Processor (CPU) Pentium 200 MHz Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 131 MB (minimal installation) 275 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM 4 MB of VRAM

References