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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
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Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance on Wikipedia
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Star Wars: X-Wing
Subseries of Star Wars
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

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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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

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

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/361670/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/361670/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

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

Anti-aliasing (AA)

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

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Audio settings

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Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
4

Issues fixed

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows

Instructions

Graphical corruption when running in 3D-accelerated mode

Instructions

Interface flashes rapidly

Instructions

Fonts in-game are messed up

Instructions
Instructions

Can't activate 3D-audio

Instructions

Can't enable 3d acceleration

Steam Controller doesn't work

Instructions

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 or 98 95 or 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz Intel 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

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References