General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Wookieepedia - A huge wiki dedicated to the Star Wars universe
- Galactic Battlegrounds at LucasForums Network
Availability
Source |
DRM |
Notes |
Keys |
OS |
Retail |
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SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1] |
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GamersGate |
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga |
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GOG.com |
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga |
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Humble Store |
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga |
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Origin |
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga |
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Steam |
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga |
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- 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 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 |
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Bonus Mission: Serapin's Bounty |
Included on second disc of some releases of Clone Campaigns. Requires Clone Campaigns. |
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Essential improvements
Patches
Official
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds - Clone Campaigns
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 battlegrounds.exe , or battlegrounds_x1.exe for Clone Campaigns.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
-
player.nfx
is for the base game while player.nf1
is for the Clone Campaigns expansion.
Save game data location
Video settings
Template:Video settings
- 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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- Download the fix from here.
- Go to
<path-to-game>\Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds\Game .
- If you're using the GOG.com version, extract the contents from the
GOG folder in the archive to that folder - for all other versions use the CD folder.
- Run the SWGBWide_x1.exe executable and the patch will apply.
- Run the game from wide_battlegrounds_x1.exe and set the game to use the 1280x1024 resolution in the options
- Should you not be able to select a resolution of 1280x1024 in the options, run the game from wide_battlegrounds_x1.bat instead.
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Input settings
In-game key map settings.
Template:Input settings
Audio settings
Template:Audio settings
Localizations
Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Ports
Protocol |
Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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 |
DirectDraw |
7 |
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OpenGL |
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Mac OS and OS X only. |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows | | |
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macOS (OS X) | | |
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Mac OS (Classic) | | | |
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Mods
- Adds 2 new factions (Geonosisians and Zann Consortium), expanded vanilla factions, a handful of custom map randomizers, and an expanded map editor.
- 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.
- Includes 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.
- Configuration data for Expanding fronts is stored in
<path-to-game>\Game\player.nf1
and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Expanding Fronts\1.0
. Changes made in the external configurator are stored in HKEY_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
.
System requirements
Windows | Mac OS (Classic) | macOS (OS X) |
Windows |
|
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 |
|
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]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References