Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
Games: Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (Windows, 1997) · Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter - Balance of Power (Windows, 1997)
OpenXvT: an open-source reimplementation of X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter with its Balance of Power expansion, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, which uses the data from your installed game and includes none of its content. It supports online play for up to eight players across all three systems, with dogfights, team battles, and cooperative missions, including Balance of Power’s Rebel and Imperial campaigns, and an in-game server browser, so no external app like GameRanger is needed. It has a classic graphics mode that keeps the original look and a modern one that draws the original models and cockpit at high resolution with shadows, ambient occlusion, bloom, motion blur, anisotropic filtering, 2x to 8x MSAA, FSR 3.1.4, HDR, and optional smoothing of the dithered cockpit art; TAB switches between them. Flight is simulated at a higher rate for smoother motion, and it adds virtual-stick mouse flight, plus gamepads and joysticks with configurable axes, deadzones, and buttons. It uses Direct3D 12 or Vulkan on Windows, Metal on macOS, and Vulkan on Linux. Its author, who also made OpenTIE and OpenXWA, notes that it’s still in development and may have bugs and differences from the original. 0.0.1 came out on September 12 and the latest, 0.0.5, on October 10.
You needA complete installation of your own copy of Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter with the Balance of Power expansion (sold on GOG and Steam); at first launch you pick the folder that contains BalanceOfPower. Plus a 64-bit system with a modern graphics card: x86-64 Windows, macOS 13 or later (the published build is for Apple Silicon), or x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.35 or later and libcurl.
- How it gets to PC
- Fan reimplementation
- Console
- Microsoft Windows
- Original studio
- Totally Games
- Year
- 1997
- Author
- Adrien Moulin
- Stars
- 66
- Last activity
- 2026-10-10 · 1 month ago
- Latest version
- v0.0.5 · 2026-10-10
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Language
- C
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