Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.


Warning for game developers: PCGamingWiki staff members will only ever reach out to you using the official press@pcgamingwiki.com mail address.
Be aware of scammers claiming to be representatives or affiliates of PCGamingWiki who promise a PCGW page for a game key.

Wing Commander: Armada

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Revision as of 23:55, 14 April 2019 by Garrbot (talk | contribs) (→‎Audio settings: updated template usage)
Wing Commander: Armada
Wing Commander: Armada cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS September 22, 1994
Windows November 21, 2013[1]
Wing Commander: Armada on Wikipedia
Wing Commander 1990
Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi 1991
Wing Commander: Academy 1993
Wing Commander: Privateer 1993
Super Wing Commander 1994
Wing Commander: Armada 1994
Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger 1994
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom 1996
Privateer 2: The Darkening 1996
Wing Commander: Prophecy 1997
Wing Commander: Secret Ops 1998

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Use DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes the Proving Grounds expansion. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Proving Grounds
DOS
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.0 updates the original DOS version to fix various issues. The GOG.com version is already patched.

Proving Grounds Mode

Proving Grounds Mode adds new multiplayer options. The GOG.com version already includes it.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\GAME.OPT
Windows <path-to-game>\GAME.OPT[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVE_*.ARM
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVE_*.ARM[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op, Versus
Two-player split-screen.
LAN play
Co-op, Versus
Online play
Co-op, Versus
Using IPX tunneling (GOG.com version is pre-configured for this).

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 27 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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