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Flight Unlimited III

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Flight Unlimited III
Flight Unlimited III cover
Developers
Looking Glass Studios
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Re-release Sold Out Software
Engines
ZOAR
Release dates
Windows September 17, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time, Relaxed
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Simulation, Open world, Vehicle simulator
Vehicles Flight
Art styles Realistic
Series Flight Unlimited
Flight Unlimited III on MobyGames
Flight Unlimited III on Wikipedia
Flight Unlimited
Flight Unlimited 1995
Flight Unlimited II 1997
Flight Unlimited III 1999

Warnings

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

Flight Unlimited III is a singleplayer first-person and third-person simulation, open world and vehicle simulator game in the Flight Unlimited series.

Installation on modern systems requires a workaround).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1] disc check.
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Sold Out Software budget release.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

  • The most recent official patch version is 2.0, available here.

Use Flight Unlimited II's San Francisco with Flight Unlimited III

Flight Unlimited II's San Francisco region can be played in Flight Unlimited III if both games are installed.

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename intro video[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\GENPILE.
  2. Delete or rename the file EA_LG.avi

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\flt3.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\logs\*.log[Note 2]
Flight plans (fplan***.pln) are saved in <path-to-game>\plans.

Video

Graphics options.
Graphics options.

Input

Input options.
Input options.

Audio

Audio options.
Audio options.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Sound Effects, Engine and Radio.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Separate US and UK releases.
German

Issues fixed

Installing on modern versions of Windows

Flight Unlimited III refuses to install on modern versions of Windows; -lgntforce skips this check.
Override NT check with -lgntforce[citation needed]
  1. With the disc in the drive, identify its drive letter. Replace X with the appropriate drive letter in the command below:
    • Vista and later: open the Start screen/Start menu and enter X:\setup.exe -lgntforce
    • Windows XP: press Win+R to open a Run window and enter X:\setup.exe -lgntforce
  2. Setup will now launch without the NT error. Continue installing normally.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
DirectDraw 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio DirectSound Version 6.1

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
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. 2.0 2.1 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