How to use Force Engine's NEW 1.0 release to have the best Dark Forces experience!

This is a guide on how to install and use Force Engine, a source port for Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995).

THE FORCE ENGINE

After 3 years of development... Finally 1.0!

Do you like mouselook? Do you like high resolution? Do you like quicksaving? With Force Engine 1.0 you will have the best experience with Dark Forces!

"So where do I download this?"

Good question! Right here![theforceengine.github.io]!

Go to Downloads on the left side bar and download V1.0! Or just press here[theforceengine.github.io]again.

Side note:

Make sure to have Dark Forces installed on either GOG[www.gog.com] or just here

https://store.steampowered.com/app/32400/STAR_WARS__Dark_Forces/

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Installation

Alright, that out of the way! Let's get to installing. After downloading you should have a .zip file. Right click that baby and extract it inside your Downloads folder. Tip: Make sure to extract it to TheForceEngine-v1.00.000\, this way it will extract itself as a folder.
dont mind the dutch just follow the picture


Once extracted, I'd recommend moving it somewhere on your drive, and shortcutting it to your desktop, but let's say you're a barbarian; Open the foler in Downloads. You should get something like this:

So what you are looking for is "TheForceEngine.exe". Right here! Press it. Please. Just press the exe man.

OH almost forgot it might give you a Windows Defender Pop up like this but just press "More details" and "Allow Anyways"

Inside The Force Engine!

So, you pressed Start and you got an error. Oh you silly man, that's why I made this guide you dummy. Go into "Settings" and then "Game" as shown below.
P.S: While you're there, make sure to check the Dark Forces settings below too. Things like Auto Run and Boba Fett fix, also a Secrets pop-up when you find one!

Once on the game tab, press "Browse" as shown above. This will open up Explorer. Go to your install folder where Dark Forces is located. If you dont know how to get there, just right-click the game on steam and press "Browse Local Files".




Once you know where the folder is, go back to The Force Engine and select browse again as shown before. Navigate to said path and select the "game" folder and open DARK.EXE




Now, Graphics settings. Every PC gamer ever goes to their Graphics settings first before starting something new. Gamer moment. Go to "Graphics" on the left.

These are all my recommended settings for the Graphics tab.

2. Turning on Fullscreen
3. Turning off V-Sync (who likes that garbage)
4. Press Widescreen
5. Select "1080p" from the dropdown list
6. Enable Crosshair but set it to 1. This makes it a small green dot. Adjust to your liking ofcourse.

PRESS START!

You're here because you played before... right? You know how to start... right? JUST PRESS IT MAKE A NEW AGENT CALL IT POWERHOUSE BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE
Voillá! Good luck and have fun, it's really good!

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That's it, thanks for looking at my guide and I hope Dark Forces is a little less frustrating to play now. Enjoy!

[TheExistentialNerdTTV]

Very pleased to have stumbled upon this. I just installed and played a couple levels. I wanted to LOVE this on PC so much, as much as I loved it on Playstation back in the day. Thank you for giving this wonderful game the "DOOM" treatment.

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[vanQ]

thank you so much for this helpful guide

[Duranu Lithdel]

@Innocence Right click the game in steam, click properties, in launch options use the code:

"FULL PATH TO GAME.EXE" %command%
Punctuation is important, make sure you include the " " and the %'s

as an example my code would be "J:\Darkforces\TheForceEngine.exe" %command%

I use the same command for Elder Scrolls Arena to get steam to load the CD version instead of the floppy disk version

[InnoSF]

hey, is there a way to link the game on steam to the exe for TFE? i've tried dropping a symbolic link and renaming it to dosbox in the folder that steam points to, but it just leads to the game not launching. i've tried double clicking the symbolic link to make sure it works and it does launch manually, just not through steam

[Nolle]

You're welcome! I've been having a blast too!!

[Bill]

My duderino, I cannot thank you enough for this. I've been wanting to replay Dark Forces for so long now but just couldn't stomach through having to literally go back in time and remap my brain for the absolute old school experience.

Now I can play through what is one of my absolute favourite games of my youth without giving myself a mental hernia. Words cannot express my gratitude, truthfully so.

[Breb75]

That was it, I forgot I install my games on a separate hard drive. Works great now thank you!

[Nolle]

Right-click the game on steam and choose "browse local files". You might've installed it on a different drive!

[Breb75]

When I go to select the folder that the game is in it just doesn't appear in the steamapps/common/ Does anyone know whats wrong?