X3: Terran Conflict

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X3: Terran Conflict
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Developers
Publishers
Engines
Release dates
Windows
October 16, 2008
OS X
October 21, 2009
Linux
July 1, 2013
X3: Terran Conflict at Steam Charts
X3: Terran Conflict at SteamDB
 X3: Terran Conflict at Wikipedia
X
X: Beyond the Frontier 1999
X-Tension 2000
X²: The Threat 2003
X³: Reunion 2005
X³: Terran Conflict 2008
X³: Albion Prelude
X Rebirth 2013

General information

More information Official Forum
More information Official Website
More information Steam Community Discussions
More information X³ Wiki

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
GamersGate Requires online activation DRM: Tages
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Fix Skip Intro

  1. Add /skipintro to launch options to disable the intro video.
  2. The option /noabout skips the launcher and starts the game directly.

Remove menu background[edit]

Fix Remove menu background

  1. To improve loading times, this mod replaces the default menu background with a simple star field.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows
OS X
Linux /home/username/.config/EgoSoft/X3TC/config.yaml
Information On Linux, the Albion Prelude configuration file is at /home/username/.config/EgoSoft/X3AP/config.yaml

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\EgoSoft\X3TC\save
OS X
Linux /home/username/.config/Egosoft/X3TC/save/
Information On Windows, Albion Prelude saves are in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\EgoSoft\X3AP\save
Information On Linux, Albion Preludes saves are in /home/username/.config/EgoSoft/X3AP/saves/

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible

Video settings[edit]

Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Native WSGF WS Silver.svg
Multi-monitor Native WSGF MM Silver.svg
Field of view (FOV) Native configurable from 70° to 90°.
Windowed Native Only certain resolutions configurable (same as for fullscreen). AA is disabled in window mode.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Unknown
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Native
Anti-aliasing (AA) Native Only available in fullscreen mode.
Vertical sync (Vsync) Unknown
High frame rate Unknown

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Unknown
Mouse input in menus Unknown
Mouse Y-axis inversion Unknown
Controller
Controller support Native
Full controller support Unknown
Controller remapping Unknown
Controller Y-axis inversion Unknown

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native Effects, music, voice.
Surround sound Native 6 channel support requires DirectSound3D [1]
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Native
EAX support Native EAX 2,[2] EAX 4[3]

Issues fixed[edit]

Game crash to desktop[edit]

Fix Add X3:TC to ffdshow blacklist[4]

Information ffdshow, a DirectShow codec which can be installed as a standalone codec or alongside other DirectShow codecs in a codec pack, can cause a CTD (Crash to Desktop). To correct this, you need to add X3:TC's executable to ffdshow's blacklist. To do so:
  1. Open ffdshow's configuration utility.
  2. In the DirectShow control tab, there's a section called "Don't use ffdshow in:". Make sure the adjacent box is checked.
  3. To the right of the checkbox is a button which says "Edit...". Click on it.
  4. Add x3tc.exe to the list of blacklisted executable.

Notes:

Information In certain versions of ffdshow, there is no "Edit..." button to the right of the "Don't use ffdshow in:" checkbox; instead, there is only a text box containing all the blacklisted executables. You'll need to manually type in x3tc.exe into the box, ensuring a semicolon is added immediately after the last executable in the list (before you add x3tc.exe).

Alt-Tab behavior[edit]

Fix Enable "Run game in background" in Gameplay Options

Information It may not be possible to re-enter the game after alt-tabbing out due to the "Run game in background" setting in the Gameplay Options menu being set to "No" by default. To correct this:
  1. While in-game, hover over the Options button.
  2. From the menu which appears, select Gameplay.
  3. From the window which appears, set "Run game in background" to "Yes".
  4. Exit the window and resume gameplay as normal.

Linux Issues[edit]

Information For documentation and discussion of issues with the Linux ports of Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude, refer to this thread on the official EgoSoft forums.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
XP SP2, Vista SP1, 7
Processor (CPU) Pentium IV 2 GHz Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
10 GB
Video card (GPU)
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
OS X
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7 10.8
Processor (CPU) Pentium IV or AMD equivalent at 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent at 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
10 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA/AMD card
Intel Core i7-2620M
256 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.0 compatible 		NVIDIA/AMD card
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 3.0 compatible
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) Pentium IV or AMD equivalent at 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent at 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
10 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA/AMD card
Intel Core i7-2620M with mesa 9.0
256 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.0 compatible 		NVIDIA/AMD card
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 3.0 compatible

References

  1. ↑ Realtek spdif out - no surround? - egosoft.com forum
  2. ↑ Some Sound Questions - egosoft.com forum
  3. ↑ EGOSOFT · Support · FAQs · FAQ: Read answer
  4. ↑ X3:TC Forums, "How to disable ffdshow"