KINDA-SORTA-NEARLY-FIXED! Windows 10: X-Wing and TIE Fighter Special Edition not starting

[Dave]

Hi all,


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Update March 2020 - I wrote this in 2015 and it worked for me at the time. Since then the publisher has released updates to the game which improve compatibility. If you can't get the game to work normally, you can some of the steps below.


Update May 2020
I retested the vanilla game and it doesn't work.
But I tried method 1 from this post, and it works perfectly - including 3D hardware.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/354430/discussions/0/620712999979167350/


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Thought I'd share this tip. If you are having problems getting X-Wing and TIE Fighter to start on Windows 10, follow these steps.

1. Make sure the game is not running (use Task Manager to kill any processes).

2. Find the folder where the games are installed. On my PC, those are
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\STAR WARS X-Wing\remastered
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\STAR WARS Tie Fighter\remastered

3. In each of these folders, rename ddraw.dll to draw.dll.bak and rename winmm.dll to winmm.dll.bak.

4. Copy ddraw.dll and winmm.dll from C:\Windows\System32\ into each of the game folders.
If you are using 64-bit Windows, copy them from C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ instead.
Thanks to teleguy for the hint about 64-bit OS

5. Right-click the main game .exe file (either XWING95.exe or TIE95.exe) and click Properties.

6. On the Compatability tab, tick Run this program in compatability mode for: and then choose Windows XP (Service Pack 3) from the drop-down.

7. Click OK and then run the game from Steam.

8. Call all your friends and tell them you won't be seeing them for a while. "Just one more mission..."

.Dave

[Steph]

Totally works, thank you!

[Queen HawlSera]

Did not work at all

[okieordie78]

Doesn't work. I'm using Windows 10. All this step does for me is allows the game to start, but once I'm supposed to be flying, I get kicked back to windows and I hear the game running. But there are no graphics. I'm using the special edition.

I will say before using this step the game wouldn't start at all for me. But this lets me get into the game, but I still can't play it. Why does this say "FIXED" when it actually doesn't fix the whole problem yet?

[Queen HawlSera]

Mine let's the game start, only to bring up the error message "Game couldn't start" after a few seconds into the intro.

It let's me play on Classic. but I want to play Special

[Dave]

Hey folks, sorry it's not worked for you. It seems different people get different behaviour.

Another option that also works for me is to follow the steps I wrote but skip step 4.

However if you do this you won't get 3D hardware graphics - for this you will need to follow this post from teleguy: http://steamcommunity.com/app/354430/discussions/0/620712999979167350/

[comPLete]

Good job on the solution!

[David Bowman]

Almost worked for me, I could get into the game, but with the Steam window flashing into the game every few seconds, and once I launched a mission it was just a black screen, so I couldn't actually play anything. This game works for me from GoG. What's wrong with the Steam version?

[TwoSteps_N_Front]

Worked Here, now just need to get my old flight stick working. LOL!!!

[Axcalibur]

vizualartist の投稿を引用：

Almost worked for me, I could get into the game, but with the Steam window flashing into the game every few seconds, and once I launched a mission it was just a black screen, so I couldn't actually play anything. This game works for me from GoG. What's wrong with the Steam version?

I'm having the exact same experience after following all of OP's directions. This post really shouldn't be labelled "fixed" until an actual fix is provided for all Windows 10 users. Anyone have an alternative solution?

[OneMikeZee]

I'm having a different error...following the OPs steps actually does load it, however the music an display stutters or something when it tries to display the lucasarts logo. I also tried the dos version and that does not work for me. I did actually update Win10 to the latest public build today (10586.122) so not sure if that has something to do with it.

[Sunie]

This fixed the issue for me on Windows 10 10586.36 . I can fly as well, only there's no music at all. I'm going to check around to fix that. Thanks for the solution, OP!

Apart from applying this fix, I also made sure that the Steam overlay was turned off.

vizualartist の投稿を引用：

but with the Steam window flashing into the game every few seconds

This can be avoided by minimizing all windows before starting the game.

[teleguy]

Axcalibur の投稿を引用：

Anyone have an alternative solution?

http://steamcommunity.com/app/354430/discussions/0/412447524178229107/

[nicobu]

Hi guys, I just found this post by David Moisan for windows 7: https://davidcmoisan.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/the-force-is-with-me-tie-fighter-95-on-windows-7-x64/. There seem to be more compatibility mode settings that are not available on the compatibility mode interface. I installed his sdb file (still using Win 8) and it worked for me!

The other thing that sucked were two mouse cursors in menus. I just renamed the ddraw.dll within the X-Wing remastered folder and the game (or the OS) seems to fallback to the default OS one without actually causing the game to crash.

YAY!

[Mr.StuffSucker]

Win10 guys with flashing windows and no graphics on flight. Dave's link here and Solution 3: WineD3D there is the answer. Works.

Dave の投稿を引用：

Hey folks, sorry it's not worked for you. It seems different people get different behaviour.

Another option that also works for me is to follow the steps I wrote but skip step 4.

However if you do this you won't get 3D hardware graphics - for this you will need to follow this post from teleguy: http://steamcommunity.com/app/354430/discussions/0/620712999979167350/

[MarioFanaticXV]

Got in-flight, and I just saw the Steam window... Minimizing windows before starting did not help, it just caused me to see my desktop background instead- disabling the overlay changed nothing. No flashing, it was just like the game minimized itself and wouldn't reopen, but was still receiving inputs- I had to hit escape to get to the menu because focus remained on the game even though I couldn't see it- couldn't even access Task Manager.