STAR WARS™: Rogue Squadron 3D

Absolutely had a blast playing through this again, reliving my time as a kid on the nintendo 64. I was really excited at first, but then the camera... Oh dear, the camera. Any time I tried boosting or accelerating the camera would fall way behind the ship, rendering it unplayable. Even pressing f1 to set camera behind the fighter stopped working. I almost gave up on the game for good, until I found some fixes which I'll share here. 1. Launch the game in compatibility mode to get your controller binds working. You will have to suffer through really slow menus, but only once, as once your controller is bound to joystick controlls, you're good. 2. CAP YOUR FRAMERATE. Vsync is not good enough, for my playthrough I used the NVIDIA app to limit the game to 60 frames, and my issues went away. Pressing f1 would now lock the camera behind your ship properly. Y-wing levels suffer slightly, however, because the camera in this position is too close to use the bomb crosshair, and using a further away camera re-introduced the falling behind issue. I played at 60, ymmv, I did not try 30 but it may help. Y-wing issues aside, it was a great romp, and really nice to play this absolute classic at a smooth framerate and high resolution. Fixing controller support by default and fixing the camera (especially the camera) is something I really hope comes in the future, but that's unlikely. If you played this game as a kid, like old school star wars, or like arcade flight sims in general, get this.

I remember picking this out as a present for myself while Christmas shopping with my grandmother. I spent hours playing this back when CD-ROM on the PC was mindblowing. Playing this again made me really nostolgic for those days in the 90's. I know a lot of other people have reported struggles with this game now. For me, it worked with zero issues on Windows 11. It even used my Playstation 4 controller via USB. Honestly, download via GOG Galaxy -> clicked "Play" -> calibrated the joystick in the game -> play.

Disappointingly, this game will not work as a straight install from GoG. It requires a custom installation from the DRM-free offline installer, and further installation of two (x2) third-party software in order to work; It will then require multiple custom setting tweaks across both of these to fix visual and audio bugs. Compatibility mode changes will straight up hard-crash most PCs, if the game does not crash itself back to desktop.

Is the mouse sensitivity problem solved in this version? I mean when you start to move the mouse gently the cross-hair doesn't start to move and you have to move the mouse even harder... very strange!

I have tried, through several years and builds, to run this game properly. By listening to other reviews/guides here on GoG, I finally managed to get it up and running somewhat decently. The first problem is controller support. It's there, but it doesn't work properly. If you run the game in compatibility mode with an older OS, you can mitigate the issue where the game gives you garbage inputs for defaults (that barely work!). Second problem is camera movement, which, as some users point out, tends to not move along with the ship. It leads to some veeery far away perspectives and makes things impossible to hit. The game corrects itself sometimes, but it's not consistent. The third and funniest problems is that the enemies keep bobbing up and down in their flight path. It's absolutely hilarious, but it makes for a less than stellar experience. All in all, I'm still having a blast with the game, but it's very much broken on a code-level. So much that I'd rather play the original, with or without the RAM-expansion.