B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th

This page is for the original 2000 version. For the 2024 remaster, see B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th Redux.

B-17 Flying Fortress
B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action	1992
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th	2000
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th Redux	EA
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Bloody 100th	TBA

B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th is a singleplayer first-person and third-person vehicle combat game in the B-17 Flying Fortress series.

General information

Bombs Away game subforums

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM^{[Note 1]}
Retail		Infogrames and Atari reissues are DRM-free.
GOG.com
Steam		Can be played without Steam running.^[3]
GamersGate (unavailable)
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
Humble Store (unavailable)

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

System	Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/328900/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saved Games^{[Note 3]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/328900/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

External video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen 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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

In-game key map settings.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

In-game audio settings.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 300 MHz, Intel Celeron 400 MHz, AMD K6-2 400 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	700 MB
Video card (GPU)	3dfx Voodoo2 (12 MB VRAM), 3dfx Voodoo3, Matrox G200, Nvidia Riva TNT, ATI Rage 128, S3 Savage4, 3D Labs Permedia 2 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible

↑ 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]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (328900) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ 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).