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Latest revision as of 17:23, 17 February 2024
Developers | |
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LucasArts | |
Ronin Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
LucasArts | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 21, 2000 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | RTS |
Themes | Sci-fi |
Series | Star Wars |
Star Wars: Force Commander is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Star Wars series.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail |
- The game is not available digitally.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.1 is the latest patch available for the game. It adds stability and bug fixes for multiplayer.
- Saved games from the 1.0 version are not compatible with 1.1, but player files (including campaign progress) are.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Resource\Options\FoCom.opt[Note 1] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Force Commander\v1.0\Settings[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Resource\Players\FoCom<user-id>.sfe[Note 1] <path-to-game>\Resource\GameFiles\save<user-id>.sav[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | 1280x1024 maximum | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
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. | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Capped at 60 fps | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
- The game does not work properly with modern AMD GPUs. If the game runs, there is significant terrain artifacting that, though it does not affect gameplay, can not be fixed.
Setting resolution and quality |
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The resolution and quality settings are managed by the launcher, but not being able to recognize the video card does not allow all changes. These can be edited through the Windows Registry Editor (regedit) in Allow32bpp: 1 (sets resolution at 32 bit per pixel) Size: 3 (sets resolution at 1280x1024) Use32BitTextures: 1 (uses high quality 32-bit texture) UseLowQualityTextures: 0 (disables low quality texture) UseSoftwareCursor: 1 (disables hardware cursor)
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | A complete cutscene script is available on Disk 1 (go to Install\CINEMATICDOC.txt ). |
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Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | Only in the game, not in video | |||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 4 | |||
Online play | 4 | The official multiplayer service was shut down. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Issues fixed
Installing on Windows 10 64-bit
Use alternative installer |
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Installing the game using a 16-bit emulator |
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Creating a Windows compatibility database entry
Use Compatibility Administrator to set compatibility |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 266 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 650 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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). - ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.