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Star Wars: X-Wing

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Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars: X-Wing cover
Developers
Totally Games
Publishers
LucasArts
Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
DOS February 1993
Mac OS (Classic) February 1993
Windows 1998
Windows (DOSBox) April 28, 2015[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) April 28, 2015[1]
Linux (DOSBox) April 28, 2015[1]
Star Wars: X-Wing guide on StrategyWiki
Star Wars: X-Wing on Wikipedia
Star Wars: X-Wing
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars: X-Wing 1993
Star Wars: TIE Fighter 1994
Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter 1997
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance 1999

Key points

Collector Series requires workaround on 64-bit systems; see Game installer won't run under 64-bit versions of Windows
Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Official forums
Lucasarts Downloads Still host patches and fixes for their older games

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
DRM: Manual lookup or CD check
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Star Wars: X-Wing Special Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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Star Wars: X-Wing Special Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
Star Wars: X-Wing Special Edition
Included with EA Play.
Windows
Steam
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Star Wars: X-Wing Special Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
A demo is available.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Star Wars: X-Wing - Imperial Pursuit
DOS
Windows
Star Wars: X-Wing - B-Wing
DOS
Windows

Version differences

Playing the DOS version in DOSBox is probably the easiest and most straightforward way to experience the game.

Collector's CD-ROM Edition

The original release came on five floppies and ran at 320x200 resolution while the collectors CD-ROM came on a single CD and featured an upgraded game engine based on TIE Fighter with support for gouraud-shading. This version also includes voice-overs for several characters in the game. Both versions run great in DOSBox without major issues and don't require a joystick to play.

Collector Series Edition

In 1998 a bundle of X-Wing and TIE Fighter ported to Windows 95/98 was released. This version features further enhanced graphics due to an upgrade to the X-Wing vs TIE Fighter engine. The game now included 3D-acceleration support (Direct3D), the use of proper textures instead of primitive gouraud-shading and completely redone concourse graphics. The iMUSE dynamic music system, however, was removed in favor of conventional CD-audio tracks. Furthermore, this version requires a joystick/gamepad and cannot be played with the mouse unless a joystick-emulation program such as PPJoy is used. The problems and fixes in this article mostly relate to this version of the game.

Star Wars: X-Wing Special Edition

The GOG.com release of the game, it includes the DOS and the Collector's CD-ROM Edition (Windows) releases of the game along with all expansions. It also has compatibility for modern systems.

Essential improvements

Patches

Windows XP compatibility-fix

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/354430/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\*.PLT[Note 3]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/354430/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

This game supports the MT-32 and General MIDI for music (Floppy and DOS CD versions only).

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Fan translation by «Бюро переводов Old-Games.RU»

Issues fixed

Game installer won't run under 64-bit versions of Windows

Since the X-wing and Tie-Fighter installers are 16-bit programs they won't work in 64-bit operating systems. To remedy this use the appropriate fixed installer found here: [1] to create an updated install disk with which you can install and run the game. Detailed instructions are found here: [2]. The autostart menu seems to be bugged so you might need to run the setup.exe file directly from the disk you created.

Game doesn't run on modern versions of Windows

Apply the Windows XP compatibility fix above.

When trying to run the game you get a popup to install DirectX

Run the game directly from XWING95.EXE instead of the menu.

Sound is crackling/distorted/weird in Windows Vista, 7

If you're using a Creative sound card and have the Alchemy software installed try adding the following to it:

**RegPath=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\TIE95\1.0\Install Path
**Buffers=5
**Duration=10

Cockpit flashes rapidly while flying

Disable Crossfire/SLI.

Objects/textures seem to disappear when moving the ship around in hardware accelerated mode

Download Reimars XWAHacker. Extract it into your X-Wing folder and run xwing95fixedclear.bat. This should fix the graphical corruption.

Colors are messed up

See Rainbow color problems in older games for solutions.

Capital Ships and Turrets rarely fire their Lasers (Collector's CD-ROM Edition)

Change DOSBox Cycles[citation needed]
This happens if you use the DOS version in DOSBox. The firing rate seems to work opposite to the game speed.
More Cycles = Less Laser Fire - Fewer Cycles = More Laser Fire.
About 30000 Cycles should be a good compromise.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio WinMM For music only. GOG.com version uses a wrapper.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) 386DX
System memory (RAM) 1 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 MB (typical 79 MB)
Video card (GPU) PCI Graphics card
DirectX 5.2 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
  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>/354430/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (354430) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  3. 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