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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire cover
Developers
LucasArts
Publishers
LucasArts
Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows September 17, 1997
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Key points

Modern systems need workarounds for some compatibility problems; see installing on modern versions of Windows.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
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
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Uses external launcher compatible with modern systems.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

1.1 Update is the latest patch. It provides support for more graphics cards.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/560170/pfx/[Note 1]
Some settings are stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LucasArts Entertainment Company\Shadows of the Empire

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/560170/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

External Launcher settings
External Launcher settings
GOG Launcher settings
GOG Launcher settings
Ingame settings
Ingame settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Audio Settings.

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Issues unresolved

Background music

The background music will not play on Windows Vista and later. The game reads the audio from the CD in audio-CD format in some fashion that is incompatible with more recent versions of Windows.
Instructions

Issues fixed

Installing on modern versions of Windows

Instructions

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/560170/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (560170) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References