Tie Fighter - collectors edition - how to play under windows 7?

[c0ldb33r]

I'm in the mood to play Tie Fighter (collectors edition).

2 problems:

1. I'm using windows 7

2. I want to use my USB control stick - I've had problems using USB control sticks with older games (Descent was a real bastard)

Any suggestions on how to get Tie Fighter running properly? I'd like to avoid Dosbox if possible because it always confuses the hell out of me.

Thanks :)

[Jorpho]

I'd like to avoid Dosbox if possible because it always confuses the hell out of me.There are frontends that make using it easier if you find it that confusing.

If you have Windows 7 64-bit you won't be able to get it running, period - at least not without a virtual machine, and you really ought to have a thorough go at figuring out DOSBox before you go that route.

[Kitsune Sniper]

DOSBox is going to be the only way to get this to work.

I could NEVER understand how to add joysticks to it, though. The input mapper never worked for me. I just went back to XPadder and created profiles through it. :\

[Trebuken]

DOSBox. I'd suggest D-Fend Reloaded for your front-end. You can use the wizard in D-Fend to add the game. It may work with default settings. You might also check the DosBox compatibilty page for the game to see if users have any suggestions.

[NayusDante]

I use the frontend "D-Fend Reloaded." It has a full GUI for configuring game directories, system parameters, and joysticks. There's a few variants of D-Fend, last I checked, so read into it and see how it works for you.

[eppst1]

Hello - sorry for the necro-post, but I recently picked up the Tie-Fighter collector's edition on CD. I have Windows7 Pro and I am trying to get the game to run through DosBox, but when I try to install I get the error "This program cannot be run in DOS mode."

Any thoughts on how to get this to work in Windows7?

Thanks for any help.

[Jorpho]

I get the error "This program cannot be run in DOS mode."You are attempting to run a 32-bit Windows program in DOSBox, for some reason.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Well I thought this game included DOS binaries.

Guess not.

[eppst1]

You are attempting to run a 32-bit Windows program in DOSBox, for some reason.

Yeah, I think that was my fault. The CE is not a DOS based program, thus it is not working in Dosbox.

But... I did install XP mode onto my machine, got it to install but can't get XP mode to recognize my gamepad (Saitek P2500). Any thoughts on that?

[A Black Falcon]

Well I thought this game included DOS binaries.

Guess not.

The Win95 CD remake version (TIE Fighter for Windows 95) is Win95 and above only, if you want to play it in DOS you need the floppy version or the original CD release, TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM (the DOS version of it). The Win95 remakes of TIE Fighter and X-Wing both use the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter engine, so they have improved graphics versus the original releases, but will not work in DOS, just like XvT itself. (Though, even in the DOS versions the graphics pretty much improve a little in each version -- TIE Fighter CD looks better than TIE Fighter floppy which looks better than X-Wing floppy, etc.)

Also, XvT, TIE Fighter 95, and X-Wing 95 do require a joystick to run, yes. The DOS versions don't -- you can also play with the mouse if you really, really want -- but you don't want to, controls are atrocious that way, which is probably why they just removed it from the next one and went to requiring a joystick (though I do imagine an analog gamepad would work, of course control-wise it'd be nowhere near as good as using an actual joystick. I'm sure the games would be much harder that way.).

They also replace the original music with CD audio, if I remember right (redbook; the DOS CD version doesn't use it)... some fans don't like that and prefer the DOS CD version.