Jane's Fighters Anthology

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Jane's Fighters Anthology

Developers
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows	May 1, 1997
Taxonomy
Series	Jane's Combat Simulations

Key points

Amalgamation of Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters, Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters - NATO Fighters and Jane's US Navy Fighters '97.

The most stable of the Windows ports of Advanced Tactical Fighters and US Navy Fighters.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Includes LHX Attack Chopper on disc one.

Disc 1 is needed for installation and playing the campaign. Disc 2 is used for the Reference menus to view information about the aircraft in the game.

Essential improvements

Official 1.02F patch

The 1.02F Patch provides improvements for multiplayer and enables the weapon view window to function properly. It also fixes game speed problem on modern systems.

Tackleberry's Patch

Tackleberry's Patch removes the disc check, fixes all images including bitmaps (.BMPs), ranks, and scroll menus, and fixes support for Windows Vista and 7 (though 8.1 and 10 were observed to work as well).

Rainbow Colors

Fighters Anthology uses DirectDraw and suffers from a rainbow colors, a common issue with older games. See Rainbow color problems in older games for a fix. Alternatively, you can try DXGL. However, the sound in DXGL only works on some rigs.^{[citation needed]}

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\PltXXX.p

Pilot profiles (XXX.p) from Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters Gold can be used.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 are the only supported resolutions.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		FOV increases with resolution but cannot be toggled.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Use DXGL and force anisotropic through the Configurator for DXGL.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Use DXGL and force antialiasing through the Configurator for DXGL.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration		Mouse is only used in menus and cockpit buttons and thus no acceleration is needed.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Mouse is only used in menus and cockpit buttons and thus no y-axis inversion is needed.
Controller
Controller support		Fighters Anthology supports a select few common 1990s joysticks and any joystick reported by Windows.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential 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, Stall Warning, RWR, Engine, Weapon Lock, and Radio all have volume sliders, along with a Master slider.
Surround sound
Subtitles		All radio messages are subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play		8
Online play		4	Eight players are supported, but only in dial-up connections. Direct IP is limited to four.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	1971

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues unresolved

Crash to desktop

The game will rarely randomly freeze, invert colours and then crash to the desktop. There is no fix for this.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Fighters Anthology Tool Kit

The Fighters Anthology Tool Kit enables users to edit all variables in the entire game, change airbase locations on maps, extract LIBs and create custom LIBs.

Realism Patch

The Realism Patch adds additional jets, adds a custom anti-cheat system (multiplayer) and more.

Game files

All of the game files are stored in .lib files. There is no known software which can bulk extract files from them. The FATK application is not the only way to browse through them The tool LIBLOCK.exe can extract any and all library files from the default game or from any custom libraries created by the FA Toolkit. You can obtain these files, and custom libraries, at The Fighters Anthology Resource Center http://jkpeterson.net/fa/

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 90 MHz	Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB	145 MB
Video card (GPU)	640x480 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible	640x480 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible