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Jane's USAF

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Jane's USAF
Jane's USAF cover
Developers
Pixel Multimedia
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows September 30, 1999
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Comes on two CD-ROMs. Disk 1 is required for playing without Tackleberry's Patch due to SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

Version 1.02 Patch

The Version 1.02 patch provides graphical optimization, improvements and fixes to gameplay. It can be found on most copies of Disk 1 or here.

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). Multiplayer does not work.

Thunderbird's Missions

Thunderbird's Missions adds three new missions and special F-16c model.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Pilots[Note 2]

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Hebrew
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 6.1 compatible

Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 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).

References