Jane's USAF

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Jane's USAF

Developers
	Pixel Multimedia
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows	October 19, 1999
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control, Voice control
Genres	Action, Vehicle combat
Vehicles	Flight
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Europe, Middle East, Cold War, Contemporary, Historical
Series	Jane's Combat Simulations

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Comes on two CD-ROMs. Disk 1 is required for playing without Tackleberry's Patch due to SafeDisc DRM.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

Version 1.02 Patch

The Version 1.02 patch provides graphical optimization, improvements and fixes to gameplay. It can be found on most copies of Disk 1 or here.

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). Multiplayer does not work.

Thunderbird's Missions

Thunderbird's Missions adds three new missions and special F-16C model.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Pilots

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Menus are 640x480, but the simulation is widescreen. Supports all resolutions listed in Windows. Cockpit is stretched.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		FOV increases with resolution. No custom FOV.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Supports bilinear and trilinear filtering.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		No acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Mouse works in menus and is used to toggle cockpit buttons in simulation. No turning with mouse.
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Mouse does not control any looking in game.
Controller
Controller support		Joysticks are supported. Unknown if gamepads are.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Joystick is fully remappable.
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		Speech, engine, background, and effects volume can be toggled separately. A master controller is also available.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Enabled by default for all dialog.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Hebrew
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	600 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 6.1 compatible