Pacific Strike

Pacific Strike

Developers
	Origin Systems
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	RealSpace
Release dates
DOS	1994
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Vehicle simulator, Vehicle combat
Vehicles	Flight
Themes	World War II, Oceania

Pacific Strike is a singleplayer first-person and third-person vehicle simulator and vehicle combat game.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Floppy disks. Use DOSBox.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch F1.19 updates the game to the latest version. See changelog

Speech Pack

Pacific Strike Speech Pack

The Pacific Strike Speech Pack is an official, retail addon which adds in-flight radio chatter to the game.

Instructions for installing[citation needed]

This is a workaround to avoid having to emulate a floppy drive and disks in order to use the install program. Rename Disk 1's SPEECH.ZIP to SPEECH.Z01, Disk 2's to SPEECH.Z02 and Disk 3's to SPEECH.Z03. Keep Disk 4's as SPEECH.ZIP. Move all four files to one folder. Unzip SPEECH.ZIP. It should result in a SPEECH.DAT that's ~5.5 MB in size. Copy SPEECH.DAT to the installation folder. Edit PS.CFG and add =SPEECH.DAT to the end of the file. In flight, press Alt+O and ensure that Speech is On.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\PS.CFG

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\*.SAV

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		For DOSBox toggle with Alt+↵ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Designed for joysticks
Full controller support
Controller remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, sound effects and speech can be individually muted.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German

Issues fixed

No music, sound effects or speech

The correct music and sound card settings have been configured in INSTALL.EXE, but there is no music or sound in the game.

Enable music/sound/speech in options menu[citation needed]
In flight, press Alt+O to access the options screen and ensure that Music, Sound Effects and Speech are On. If Music is Off there, it will be off throughout the game, as well. Notes The speech pack adds only in-flight radio chatter. It does not add speech to cutscenes.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	VGA	320x200 256-color

Tips

Press Alt+X to exit the game.

Press Alt+O when in a mission to access the options menu (for all game settings).

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	5.0	6.2
Processor (CPU)	Intel 486/33	Intel 486/66
System memory (RAM)	4 MB	8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 MB	25 MB