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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th

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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: The Mighty 8th
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th cover
Developers
Wayward Design
Publishers
Retail, digital (2021-present) MicroProse
Retail Hasbro Interactive
Retail re-release Infogrames
Retail re-release Atari
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Digital (2014-2021) Retroism
Digital (2014-2021) Nightdive Studios
Release dates
Windows December 13, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Vehicle combat
Vehicles Flight
Themes World War II
Series B-17 Flying Fortress
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th on HowLongToBeat
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th on MobyGames
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th on Wikipedia
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
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)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Infogrames and Atari reissues are DRM-free.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Can be played without Steam running.[3]
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
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Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

External video settings.
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

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

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


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 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>/328900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (328900) 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