Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D

Developers
	Factor 5
	LucasArts
Publishers
	LucasArts
	Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows	December 3, 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Vehicle combat
Vehicles	Space flight
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Sci-fi, Space
Series	Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D	1998
Star Wars: Episode I - Battle for Naboo	2001

Key points

Installing on 64-bit systems requires a workaround. See Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows.

General information

Official website (archived)

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GamersGate
GOG.com
Humble Store
Steam
Origin		Included with EA Play Pro. Currently only visible in the EA App's Browse menu.

Essential improvements

Patches

• The latest official patch 1.2.0 adds the Naboo Starfighter and fixes issues with 3dfx Voodoo3 and 3dfx Voodoo Banshee chipsets. It is available here and at soggi.org.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Rogue Squadron\v1.0
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/455910/pfx/

Some elements like game settings, sound settings or controls are stored in player profile.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\PlayerProfiles
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/455910/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD			Force with dgVoodoo or nGlide.
Field of view (FOV)		65° horizontal.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use dgVoodoo 2 wrapper (DirectX; Glide crashes the video driver) combined with GeDoSaTo.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Can be forced using Nvidia Control Panel or AMD Catalyst Control Center if using Glide.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Some animation weirdness at framerates above 60, but nothing that affects gameplay.

Widescreen resolution

Use Sui's Rogue Squadron DLL wrapper

Download the DLL wrapper and extract it. Copy winmm.dll and scripts folder to <path-to-game>\ROGUE. Edit scripts\Rogue-Squadron-Hack.ini with a text editor to specify the rendering resolution. Start the game. Go to Video settings and select your own resolution. Notes The wrapper requires the rendering to be set to Direct3D - Glide is not supported. The main menu, hangar, etc. are still rendered at 640x480. To bypass the issue see steps below.

Upscale main menu, hangar etc. with DgVoodoo 2
Make sure to install Sui's Rogue Squadron DLL wrapper first. Download the latest dgVoodoo 2 wrapper and extract it. Copy the DLL files from dgVoodo's MS folder to <path-to-game>\ROGUE. Start dgVoodooSetup.exe, go to DirectX tab and adjust the rendering resolution there.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See Joystick inhibits controls for a potential issue.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound Effects, and Voice
Surround sound		4 channel surround sound
Subtitles		Under general options.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Can not be disabled. Prone to crashing on loss of focus.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian				Not on Steam version.
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D [DX11].

Issues fixed

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows

Alternative installer
An alternative MSI installer can be downloaded from his website. A guide on how to create a CD image with a new installer can be found here.

Manual installation

Copy the ROGUE folder from Rogue Squadron CD to your hard disk. Then copy ROGUE.EXE from the root of the CD into ROGUE folder on your hard disk. Finally grab DSETUP.dll, DSETUP16.dll and DSETUP32.dll files from INSTALL (along with any .txt and .doc files you want) and put them in ROGUE. If you had placed the ROGUE folder in C:\Games then your folder structure would look like this: C:\Games\ROGUE\BUNDLE.000 C:\Games\ROGUE\BUNDLE.001 C:\Games\ROGUE\BUNDLE.002 C:\Games\ROGUE\BUNDLE.003 C:\Games\ROGUE\dsetup.dll C:\Games\ROGUE\dsetup16.dll C:\Games\ROGUE\dsetup32.dll C:\Games\ROGUE\IFORCE2.DLL C:\Games\ROGUE\License.txt C:\Games\ROGUE\README.TXT C:\Games\ROGUE\Rogue Squadron.EXE C:\Games\ROGUE\ROGUE.EXE C:\Games\ROGUE\DATA\BUNDLE.000 C:\Games\ROGUE\DATA\BUNDLE.001 C:\Games\ROGUE\DATA\OUT\DATA.DAT C:\Games\ROGUE\DATA\OUT\DATA.HDR The retail release of version 1.0 does not contain the bundle.002 file. Now you need the registry entries. Copy the following into Notepad and save it as “rogue.reg”, after you edit the file paths as appropriate: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Rogue Squadron\v1.0] "Executable"="C:\\Games\\ROGUE\\Rogue Squadron.EXE" "Install Path"="C:\\Games\\ROGUE" "Source Path"="C:\\Games\\" "CD Path"="D:" "Analyze Path"="D:\\INSTALL\\SysCheck.exe" "Source Dir"="C:\\Games\\" "JoystickID"="1" "Magic"=dword:0009283c "InstallType"=dword:00000009 "SoundCard"="TRUE" "DefVidID"="0" "Driver"="D3D" "VDEVICE"="Primary Display Driver" "3DSetup"="TRUE" "JoystickGUID"="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}" "CurrentPlayer"=dword:00000000 Now, you should be able to start a game. Notes If a launcher still shows only install option, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Rogue Squadron\v1.0 and see if it's not empty. Keep in mind, that these entries must be located under Wow6432Node or they will not work. If an error pops up asking to reinstall a game, it's probably, because entries in registry point to incorrect locations. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Rogue Squadron\v1.0. There edit entries Analyze Path, and CD Path to refer to locations on your CD/DVD drive. After that edit entries Executable, Install Path, Source Dir and Source Path to make them refer to a folders and files on your hard drive.

Game freezes in menu / can't create a user profile

Fixing menu freeze when creating a profile
Go to the installation folder. Set the compatibility mode for ROGUE SQUADRON.EXE to Windows 98 / Windows ME. Launch a game and create user profile. If there are problems afterwards (lagging menus), turn compatibility mode back off AFTER having created the profile.

Joystick inhibits controls

Turning off Joystick
The joystick input (even if no joystick is activated) can be switched off by pressing Ctrl+J.

Joystick not detected

Change the compatibility mode to Windows 98/Me
If your joystick isn't detected change the compatibility mode in the Properties tab to Windows 98/Me. Then try pressing "Default" to reset your joystick assignments. After this, you can shut compatibility mode off (if there are problems with the menus being slow etc) and you should be set.

Game crashes on startup (GOG.com)

Reinstall to C:\GOG Games\Star Wars - Rogue Squadron 3D

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6
Glide

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz	Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	80 MB
Video card (GPU)	Direct3D or Glide compatible graphics card 4 MB of VRAM