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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]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Space flight
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars: X-Wing on HowLongToBeat
Star Wars: X-Wing on IGDB
Star Wars: X-Wing guide on StrategyWiki
Star Wars: X-Wing on MobyGames
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

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

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
GamersGate
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Special Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Special Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Special Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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Special Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Special Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
Special Edition. Included with EA Play Pro. Currently only visible in the EA App's Browse menu.
Windows
A demo is available.

Version differences

The original 1993 release came on 5 floppy disks and ran at 320x200 resolution. This is also the only release for which the expansions are available separately.
The 1995 Collectors CD-ROM release came on a single CD and featured an upgraded game engine based on Star Wars: TIE Fighter, with support for gouraud-shading. This version also includes voiceovers for several characters in the game.
The 1998 version from the Collector Series release (bundle of X-Wing and TIE Fighter) is an official port to the Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter engine and is therefore Windows-native. The game now includes 3D acceleration support (Direct3D), the use of proper textures instead of primitive gouraud-shading and completely redone concourse graphics. The iMUSE dynamic music system was removed in favor of conventional Redbook CD audio tracks. Furthermore, this version requires a joystick/gamepad and cannot be played with the mouse unless a joystick emulation program such as vJoy is used. The problems and fixes in this article mostly relate to this version of the game.
The digital releases of the game include all three aforementioned versions.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Imperial Pursuit
DOS
Windows
B-Wing
DOS
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

v1.0a patch for Imperial Pursuit
Windows XP compatibility fix for Collector Series version

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

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
DOSBox allows Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
70fps lock in DOS version.
Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS in Windows version.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Only controller can be remapped.
Mouse acceleration
DOS doesn't support acceleration, and Collector's Edition doesn't support mouse control.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Right stick is treated as a throttle.
The collector's edition requires a joystick.
Full controller support
DOS requires keyboard in-flight. Windows requires mouse for menu.
Controller remapping
Windows version only.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Can't use Alt+Tab .[citation needed]
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
Collector's Series (Windows version) only.
General MIDI audio
Floppy and DOS CD versions only
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

These mostly refer to the Windows-native 1998 Collector Series release.

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

The installer is 16-bit and does not work by default on 64-bit systems.

Use Markus Egger's installer as per his instructions.
Run the installer through WineVDM

Game doesn't run on modern versions of Windows

Apply the Windows XP compatibility patch

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 or distorted in Windows Vista, 7

Configure ALchemy

If running a Creative sound card and 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 disappear when moving the ship around in hardware accelerated mode

Use XWAHacker
  1. Download Reimars XWAHacker and extract it to <path-to-game>.
  2. Run xwing95fixedclear.bat as administrator.

Colors are wrong

See DirectDraw troubleshooting for solutions.

Capital ships and turrets rarely fire their lasers (Collector's CD-ROM Edition)

This happens if running the 1995 DOS version in DOSBox. The firing rate seems to work opposite to the game speed (more cycles means less laser fire).
Change DOSBox cycles to approx. 30000[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
1998 Windows-native version only.
macOS (OS X)
[2]
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 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 MB (typical 79 MB)
Video card (GPU) PCI Graphics card
DirectX 5.2 compatible
Other Joystick and mouse required.


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