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Essential improvements and fixes

By CMDR_Martin

The aim of this guide is to provide a collection of essential improvements and fixes to the game that can enhance your experience.

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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22 Sep, 2019 @ 12:36am

28 Feb @ 12:11am

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

FIXES

Fixing the crash at startup

Fixing black screen bug

Fixing the menu and HUD for higher resolutions

Fixing the AMD GPU terrain glitch

Restoring EAX support

IMPROVEMENTS

Customisable shaders and support for maps with PBR materials

Restoring vehicle cockpits

Star Wars Battlefront I maps

Conclusion

Comments

Introduction

Hello, in this guide I would like to show you how to fix various issues you might or might have encountered when playing this great game and various enhancements that will improve it even further.

FIXES

Fixing the crash at startup

This issue has 2 solutions depending on your hardware.

If you have a microphone:
Just plug it in.
Really, that's it

If you don't have a microphone:
1. Go to your operating system's control panel
2. Click on "Sound"
3. Go to recording devices, right click the window and tick both
"Show Disabled Devices" and "Show Disconnected Devices"
4. Right click "Stereo Mix" and click enable

Fixing black screen bug

1. Open Discord
2. Go to settings
3. Disable discord overlay

If this doesn't work
1. Right click BattlefrontII.exe
2. Click properties
3. Go to the compatibility tab and set compatibility mode to Windows XP SP2

Fixing the menu and HUD for higher resolutions

Download the latest version of the SWBF2 Remastered mod
https://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-battlefront-ii-full-hd-interface/downloads

And simply install using the installer.

If you prefer the original HUD over the bigger one, go to
Star Wars Battlefront II/Gamedata/data/_lvl_pc/remaster

Make a backup of StockHUDHD.lvl, delete the one in the remaster folder and rename StockHUD.lvl to StockHUDHD.lvl

Note: This mod comes with a customised version of Unofficial patch 1.3, too so you don't have to install it afterwards or beforehand.

Fixing the AMD GPU terrain glitch

Download this:
https://mega. nz/folder/8tlAhDyQ#2AkAQukJKAYuIWEzDTGtFA/folder/IslFkTSL
Pick the 15.10 dll file
and place in the GameData folder.

Restoring EAX support

I already made a guide on this here:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1384096547&searchtext=eax

IMPROVEMENTS

Customisable shaders and support for maps with PBR materials

Install shader patch from here:
https://github.com/SleepKiller/shaderpatch/releases

I highly suggest using the preview versions as they feature a lot of new features that are not in stable releases, yet.

You can also use various shaders in similar way to Reshade. The key to open the effects system interface is \ by default.

Restoring vehicle cockpits

Due to Star Wars Battlefront II's rushed development, there was no time to properly implement cockpits like in Star Wars Battlefront I, but they can be still restored using this file:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/cockpit-sides/downloads/side-cockpits

Star Wars Battlefront I maps

You can easily get the maps from the 2004 Battlefront I in Battlefront II using Marvel4's conversion pack 1.1:
https://www.moddb.com/games/star-wars-battlefront-ii/downloads/marvel4s-conversion-pack

Note:
This mod has nothing to do with Conversion Pack 2.2 (which features less accurate versions of SWBF1 maps ported by a different person and some new gamemodes and eras)

Conclusion

If anything new arises, I will update this guide accordingly. I hope it helped. Enjoy!

93 Comments

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Seb 23 May @ 9:14pm

Does the Amd gpu work for integrated?

Allard 15 Mar @ 11:06pm

Thank you for posting the 1.1 conversion pack link. I can't stand the unofficial patch and all the fanfic shit added in 2.2 so this was exactly what I needed.

CMDR_Martin [author] 2 Mar @ 12:43am

The filter doesn't seem to like mega links much and I thought people would notice that and just remove the space considering URLs cannot have spaces.

CMDR_Martin [author] 2 Mar @ 12:42am

I actually did that on purpose so steam's link filter doesn't block it. Had issues with that in the past

🌸Azukuni dorimuru🌸 1 Mar @ 1:10pm

@CMDR_Martin It still doesn't work though I see the problem you put a space in it but now it works with a simple edit https://mega.nz/folder/8tlAhDyQ#2AkAQukJKAYuIWEzDTGtFA/folder/IslFkTSL here ya go :P

CMDR_Martin [author] 28 Feb @ 12:12am

I updated the link, let me know if it works now

CMDR_Martin [author] 28 Feb @ 12:06am

Alright, I'll look into it

🌸Azukuni dorimuru🌸 23 Feb @ 1:29am

the link to the AMD terrain glitch fix no-longer works please fix

J 22 Sep, 2023 @ 1:27pm

Nothing works for me, my game just crashes as soon as i try to join a server or play the campaign. Honestly depressing

Jameskiro21 7 Feb, 2023 @ 7:02pm

Guide's good, overall. One problem, though, is the textures glitching out on 1440p. Of course, that's only after I added my resolution to the vidmode.ini, but without adding it there, no matter the steam launch options, the GUI will still be the 800x600 (I believe it is, at least) resolution and in-game will only be 1080p. EAX, the remaster options and all that still work. And yes, I added the 14.12 .dll files to GameData, not that it should matter, as I'm using an Nvidia card.

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