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Star Wars™: X-Wing and TIE Fighter seriesX-Wing Alliance Won't Run(8 posts)(8 posts)
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Posted May 02, 2015
I can't seem to get X-wing Alliance to run. I can mess around in the concourse just fine, but when I start a mission (campaign or skirmish) it immediately crashes. In hardware mode, regardless or resolution or graphics settings it crashes with the attached error message. In software mode regardless of settings it crashes with the generic windows application crashed message Microsoft puts out. Using compatibility settings had no effect. Does anyone know what the issue might be?

My specs:
Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 2 cores @ 3GHz
4GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 4500
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Posted May 15, 2015
Same....

Crash crash crash. as soon as I am in the 3D world it hangs. Delightful that I can play my old favorites XW, TF and XvT... but Alliance just wont work.

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W7 Pro
i5 2500
8GB
Nvidia 970
Posted May 15, 2015
AFAIK Alliance comes with a Direct3D wrapper. You could try replacing it with dgVoodoo.
http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2.html
Posted May 16, 2015
You could try downloading a later version of the wrapper that comes with the GOG version of Xwing Alliance. I believe it fixes a few crashes and it could solve your problem. If you're running Windows XP, don't download this version or else you wouldn't be able to run 3D hardware at all.


http://www.xwaupgrade.com/download/files/xwa_ddraw_d3d11.1.3.zip

Extract all files to the Xwing Alliance folder.
Posted May 18, 2015
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, neither method worked. With the updated wrapper I still got the same crashes, and I couldn't get dgVoodoo to recognize the game for some reason.
Posted May 18, 2015
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Splinter00S: In software mode regardless of settings it crashes with the generic windows application crashed message Microsoft puts out.
If I recall correctly that wrapper is Direct 3D only, so if you want to use software mode you have to remove it completely.
Posted May 18, 2015
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Splinter00S: In software mode regardless of settings it crashes with the generic windows application crashed message Microsoft puts out.
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teleguy: If I recall correctly that wrapper is Direct 3D only, so if you want to use software mode you have to remove it completely.
Well that someone worked, I renamed the extensions of the wrapper and tried again, and it was "functional" in software mode, in that I could start missions, see things, shoot at them, etc. But the graphics were extremely distorted, with the cockpit being squished to the left half of the screen, weird stuff on the right, and with the colors extremely distorted (x-wing shooting green lazers, pink ties, etc.). I guess it would seem based off this experiment the problem is somewhere in GOGs wrapper. I'm half tempted just to pull out my pirated copy again because that I could at least get working and looking good.
Posted May 19, 2015
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teleguy: If I recall correctly that wrapper is Direct 3D only, so if you want to use software mode you have to remove it completely.
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Splinter00S: Well that someone worked, I renamed the extensions of the wrapper and tried again, and it was "functional" in software mode, in that I could start missions, see things, shoot at them, etc. But the graphics were extremely distorted, with the cockpit being squished to the left half of the screen, weird stuff on the right, and with the colors extremely distorted (x-wing shooting green lazers, pink ties, etc.). I guess it would seem based off this experiment the problem is somewhere in GOGs wrapper. I'm half tempted just to pull out my pirated copy again because that I could at least get working and looking good.
Sounds familiar....
http://www.gog.com/forum/star_wars_xwing_and_tie_fighter_series/xwing_alliance_unplayable_in_windows_xp_due_graphics_issues

Try wined3d. On Windows 7 3D mode works without that Opengl file.
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