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Star Wars: Pit Droids

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Star Wars: Pit Droids
Star Wars: Pit Droids cover
Developers
Lucas Learning
Release dates
Windows September 13, 1999
Mac OS (Classic) September 13, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Direct control
Genres Puzzle
Vehicles Robot
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
Series Star Wars
Star Wars: Pit Droids on IGDB
Star Wars: Pit Droids on MobyGames
Star Wars: Pit Droids on Wikipedia
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Warnings

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

Star Wars: Pit Droids is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric puzzle game in the Star Wars series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc English version DRM[Note 1]
Disc check German version DRM
Windows
Retail
DRM details are not known
Mac OS
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game can only be purchased as a physical disc. There is no store that distributes this game online.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Pit Droids Options.dat[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saved Games[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Game forces 4:3 resolution
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 and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, effects and voices can be regulated separately.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Issues fixed

SETUP.exe won't run on Windows 10

Use InstallShield 5 32-bit Generic Installer
Error: "D:\PitDroids\Lucas Learning Folder\Pit Droids\SETUP.exe The specified path does not exist. Please check the file location and try again.".
  1. Copy everything from the CD / ISO into an empty folder on your hard drive.
  2. Replace the Lucas Learning Folder\Pit Droids\SETUP.exe with InstallShield 5 32-bit Generic Installer.
  3. Run the setup.exe and install the game

Videos play with distorted sound and visual stutter

Use QuickTime 7.7.6
  1. Uninstall QuickTime 4.0 that comes with the game, if present.
  2. Download QuickTime 7.7.6
  3. Install QuickTime 7.7.6. (Just the base components and the player are sufficient)

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 6.1
2 MB of VRAM
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) System 7.5
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 603e
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).

References