Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
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Developers | |
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LucasArts | |
Mac OS (Classic) | Westlake Interactive |
Publishers | |
LucasArts | |
Japan | Electronic Arts |
Mac OS | Aspyr Media |
Digital | Disney Interactive Studios |
Engines | |
Genie | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 9, 2001 |
Mac OS (Classic) | June 5, 2002 |
macOS (OS X) | June 5, 2002 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 75 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Multiple select, Point and select |
Genres | RTS |
Themes | Sci-fi |
Series | Star Wars |
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Galactic Battlegrounds at LucasForums Network
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1] | |||
Retail | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga | ||||
GOG.com | Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga | |||
Humble Store | ||||
Origin | Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga DRM-free when launched directly from executable[Note 2] Included with EA Play Pro. |
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Steam | Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- A preconfigured Wine wrapper for Linux is available for the GOG.com release.
Version differences
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga includes the base game along with the Clone Campaigns expansion.
- The digital releases use the background music from the original release, rather than the Galactic Battlegrounds Saga re-release. The background music used in Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, formatted for use in-game, can be downloaded from the PCGamingWiki community site.
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns | ||
Bonus Mission: Serapin's Bounty | Included on second disc of some releases of Clone Campaigns. Requires Clone Campaigns. |
Essential improvements
Patches
Official
Unofficial
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds All-In-One Patch
A massive community patch that adds a variety of enhancements and stability improvements to the game. They include:
- Modern Windows support
- A DirectDraw rainbow color patch and wrapper
- Widescreen support for Clone Campaigns
- New in-game music
- Support for Italian & Russian
- New launcher for the games
- Further patch details, download links, and support can be found on the official Steam Community page.
Skip intro videos
Create new shortcut[citation needed] |
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Create a new shortcut directly to |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Game\player.nfx[Note 3] <path-to-game>\Game\player.nf1[Note 3] HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns\1.0 |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/356500/pfx/[Note 4] |
-
player.nfx
is for the base game whileplayer.nf1
is for the Clone Campaigns expansion.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Game\SaveGame[Note 3] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/356500/pfx/[Note 4] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Origin | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. Pixel-based scaling; Lossless Scaling in conjunction with Expanding Fronts set to 1920x1080 and windowed mode can help. |
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Field of view (FOV) | Uses 2D sprites. Real estate is increased with higher resolutions. | ||
Windowed | Use Expanding Fronts. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | In Expanding Fronts, enable windowed mode and set window resolution to the desktop resolution. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | Animations play at 20 FPS. The Expanding Fronts mod can speed up animations to 60 FPS. | ||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Color blind mode | Enable Friend or Enemy Colors .Expanding Fronts also adds larger text support. |
Widescreen resolution
- A No-CD executable is required for this.[3] Note that the GOG.com version already ships a decrypted binary and does not require such.
- This fix is already included with the Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds All-In-One Patch and Expanding Fronts.
Use a widescreen patcher[citation needed] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | Scroll speed can be adjusted. | |
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 | The game has subtitles for all the dialogue in-game; the campaign intros also have subtitles. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Red Book CD audio | Replaced with Ogg Vorbis wrapper in digital rereleases. The digital releases use the background music from the original release, rather than the Galactic Battlegrounds Saga re-release. The background music used in Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, formatted for use in-game, can be downloaded from the PCGamingWiki community site. On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | Retail only. Digital copies require the Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds All-In-One Patch. | |||
Japanese | Retail only. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail only.[4] | |||
Russian | Requires the Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds All-In-One Patch. | |||
Spanish | ||||
Ukrainian | Fan translation for the Saga release by TSF, download. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 8 | |||
Online play | 8 |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | Zone.com support has been discontinued. | |
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 2300-2400, 6073, 47624 |
UDP | 2300-2400, 6073 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw | 7 | |
OpenGL | Mac OS and OS X only. |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
macOS (OS X) | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Modifications
Expanding Fronts
- A fan-made expansion that brings new civilizations, units, maps, gameplay features, and quality of life improvements to Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds:
- Adds 4 new factions (Zann Consortium, Geonosians, First Order, and Resistance) with expanded vanilla factions and new units and techs.
- Handful of custom map randomizers, and an expanded map editor.
- Native widescreen support, and a windowed mode option through an external configuration tool.
- The aforementioned configuration tool can also speed up animations to 60fps, as well as other experimental features such as large map support and larger fonts for some text.
- Windows only.
- Uses a separate executable from vanilla (
battlegrounds_x2.exe
). This means it doesn't interfere with a vanilla installation, however, it needs to be renamed to launch with Steam/Galaxy or use online multiplayer restoration tools. - Configuration data for Expanding fronts is stored in
<path-to-game>\Game\player.nf1
andHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Expanding Fronts\1.0
. Changes made in the external configurator are stored inHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Expanding Fronts\Configurator
. - A higher resolution icon for this mod can be found here (choose
battlegrounds_x2.ico
).
- Bodies Stay - A simple mod that just makes the bodies stay on the ground
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 233 MHz AMD Athlon 233 MHz |
Intel Pentium II 300 MHz AMD Athlon 300 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB (95, 98) 64 MB (2000, XP) |
64 MB (95, 98) 96 MB (2000, XP) |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 350 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible | 4 MB of VRAM |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 8.6 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC G3 | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 350 MB |
Notes
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ Launching from
<path-to-game>\Game\battlegrounds_x1.exe
. - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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). - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/356500/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (356500) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Patcher
- ↑ Novo Milênio, 30-11-2001.