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Star Wars: Battlefront

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For the 2015 game, see Star Wars Battlefront (2015).

Star Wars: Battlefront
Star Wars: Battlefront cover
Developers
Pandemic Studios
macOS (OS X) Beenox Shift
Publishers
LucasArts
Engines
Zero
Release dates
Windows September 21, 2004
macOS (OS X) July 25, 2005
Star Wars: Battlefront guide on StrategyWiki
Star Wars: Battlefront on MobyGames
Star Wars: Battlefront on Wikipedia

Warnings

The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Star Wars: Battlefront
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars: Battlefront 2004
Star Wars: Battlefront II 2005
Star Wars Battlefront (2015) 2015
Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) 2017
Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection 2024

Key points

Use SWBFSpy to replace the GameSpy server browser.

General information

SWBFGamers - Active multiplayer community.
Wookieepedia - A huge wiki dedicated to the Star Wars universe
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
CD-ROM edition with 3 discs and a rare DVD-ROM version.
SecuROM 5 DRM until Patch 1.11.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Origin
Origin
Included with EA Play.
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest version is Patch 1.2. This patch adds the Tatooine: Jabba's Palace map.
Included in digital rereleases.

Skip intro videos

Use the /nointro command line argument[1]

Game data

General settings.
General settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GameData\SaveGames\*.profile[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1058020/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GameData\SaveGames[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1058020/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.
In-game map, demonstrating reduced accessibility to users with deuteranopia.
In-game map, demonstrating reduced accessibility to users with deuteranopia.

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Field of view (FOV)

Star Wars Battlefront 1 Field of View Enhancer (Mod DB, Nexus Mods) provides several preset files/folders that can be used to set the field of view to 90°, 100°, 110° and 120°, based on horizontal FOV in 4:3 mode. These FOV presets can be easily dragged and dropped into the root directory of the game for quick installation.
The default 4:3 first person value of 70° corresponds to 86° at 16:9, 102° at 21:9 and 124° at 32:9. 48:9 requires at least 141°, unsupported by the mod.
Cuts off the player viewmodel unless Widescreen aspect ratio fix is used.

Input settings

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Audio settings

Audio settings, with hardware acceleration and EAX support.
Audio settings, with hardware acceleration and EAX support.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Italian
German
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
64
Online play
64 GameSpy matchmaking has been shut down.[2]

Connection types

Issues fixed

An Official FAQ is available for the Windows version.
TweakGuides has created a comprehensive guide for fixing issues in this game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Received a universal binary at patch 1.2. Still 32-bit only.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Hardware Transform & Lighting (T&L) capable
64 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1058020/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1058020) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References