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Eurofighter Typhoon

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Eurofighter Typhoon
Eurofighter Typhoon cover
Developers
Rage Software
Digital Image Design
Publishers
Retail Ubisoft
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Digital (2014-2018) KISS ltd
Digital (2018-present) Funbox Media
Release dates
Windows May 4, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Vehicle simulator, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Flight
Themes Contemporary, Europe
Eurofighter Typhoon on HowLongToBeat
Eurofighter Typhoon on MobyGames
Eurofighter Typhoon on Wikipedia

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Game can be played without Steam.[1]
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Gold Edition.
Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Operation Icebreaker Standalone expansion. Included in retail and the Gold Edition on Zoom Platform as of March 18, 2023, but not in the Steam version.[2]
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

  • The latest official patch v2.1 is available here and at soggi.org.

Skip intro videos

Use -nointro parameter[3]

Use the -nointro command line argument.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\digital image design\Typhoon
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/283350/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\players\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/283350/pfx/[Note 1]
Player profiles are in subfolders; player.lst is an index of profile names.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.
Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched from 4:3; see Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
"Alternative Field of View" option lowers the FOV.
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter or set in registry.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate cap.

Widescreen resolution

Higher resolutions can be set in the registry. Only 4:3 resolutions will have the correct aspect ratio.
Set resolution in registry[citation needed]
  1. For the Steam version, apply the launcher fix.
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\digital image design\Typhoon.
  3. Set Preferred Width and Preferred Height in Decimal format.

Notes

Some higher resolutions do not work (the game will instead run at 1024x768). Highest found is 1280x1024

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effects, Speech, Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Radio chatter during missions appears as text in the top left corner but may be obstructed by the cockpit, depending on resolution and font size.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Mutes and pauses.
EAX support
Use dsoal.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Launcher does not open (Steam)

Run typhoon_2000.reg[4]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Run typhoon_2000.reg
  3. The launcher should now open correctly.

Most Speech files do not play

System is missing the DSP Group TrueSpeech codec[5]
  1. Download and install the TrueSpeech codec.

Issues unresolved

Forced Windows 98/ME compatibility mode (Steam)

Upon launching the game, the included installscript.vdf will always create a registry entry that forces the game to run in the aforementioned compatibility mode, even when it isn't necessary, possibly making Steam Overlay unusable.
Deleting the registry entry, editing or deleting installscript.vdf, or setting any of the aforementioned files to read-only all have no effect.
Running the game via Typhoon.exe bypasses the forced compatibility mode, and the game can be added as Non-Steam Game in order to play it with the Steam Overlay. Play Time will not be logged.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 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>/283350/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (283350) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  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