Troubleshooting: Games
Overview
This article is to give specific troubleshooting tips for the TC's games. Currently it's focused on the older flight sim games, specifically TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, and X-Wing Alliance. It may be expanded to other TC games in the future. NOTE: This article assumes that you have read the TIE Corps New Member Guide's section on Custom Missions and that you're looking for specific troubleshooting tips for the games.
Applicable to TIE, XvT, and XWA - Replace DDraw file
The flight sims were created a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away and struggle to use newer versions of Direct3D. By replacing these files, you tend to fix a lot of weird issues that the games have. You can download the files using one of the following links (see the notes):
- https://github.com/rdoeffinger/xwa_ddraw_d3d11 (this one is typically recommended, but it's not been updated since Jan 2, 2022)
- https://github.com/JeremyAnsel/xwa_ddraw_d3d11 (this one appears to be newer, having been updated as recently as April 2023)
Once you open the links:
- Click the Releases button on the right side of the page. Download the .zip file of the newest version released.
- Extract the ddraw.cfg and the ddraw.dll to your game directory and allow them to overwrite any existing files.
- You need to repeat this process for every game that you are using, including any different versions you're playing. TIE has three different directories: TIE95, Collector's CD, and Remastered (1998). XvT has two different directions: one for XvT and one for BoP. You would need to repeat these instructions in each, individual game directory for this to take effect.
NOTE: The ddraw.cfg can be opened in a text editor and has multiple options/enhancements that you may find useful. Please read the documentation on the Github page(s) for more information.
TIE Fighter
Disable in-game music
Once you have the game open, hit Esc and turn the Music volume to 0. Having music enabled can cause the game to crash.
X-Wing vs TIE Fighter
Disable in-game music
Navigate to the game's directory and open the Config.cfg in a text editor like Notepad. Change the value for "music" to 0 and then save your changes. If you don't do this, missions will often crash immediately after you complete a mission and the voice over says "Primary Mission Objectives Complete".
X-Wing Alliance
Nothing to report currently.
