Combat Wings

Combat Wings
Combat Wings	2005
Combat Wings: Battle of Britain	2006

Combat Wings is a singleplayer first-person and third-person action and vehicle combat game in the Combat Wings series.

It was also released as Combat Wings: Battle of the Pacific and Combat Wings: Pacific Heroes in some regions.

General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Steam

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	None

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\City Interactive\Midway\
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/864450/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/864450/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only 4:3 resolutions are selectable in-game. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		Use this FOV fix to set a custom FOV value.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Frame generation		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Widescreen resolution

Edit the Registry^[1]

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\City Interactive\Midway\render.
Edit the width and height keys to the desired resolution.

Notes

Stretched image when compared to 4:3. Use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.

Some text in menus will appear scrambled when using an ultrawide resolution (32:9, 21:9, 12:5).

This can be avoided by using a narrower resolution (16:10, 16:9, 4:3).

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Fan - 1
French
German
Italian
Polish
Spanish

Network

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	unknown
UDP	unknown

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Game crashes due to missing codecs

The game may crash on Windows Vista and later because it can't decode the movies properly due to missing codecs. This issue manifests itself as sudden exiting after seeing the menu loading screen.

This can be fixed by either using a dummy mpeg.dll or removing the video files.

Install dummy `mpeg.dll`^[2]
Use the dummy mpeg.dll.

Slow performance on Windows 10

Use DXVK

Use dgVoodoo 2

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Tokamak
Audio	Aureal 3D

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (864450) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2025-12-24
↑ Windows 7 Fix - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (864450) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[4] The app ID (864450) may differ in some cases.

[5] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[6] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[alphayellow-2] Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2025-12-24

[3] Windows 7 Fix - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)

[Note 1]

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Developers

	City Interactive
Publishers
	City Interactive
Russia	1C Company
Engines
	Impact 2
Release dates
Windows	November 21, 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Vehicle combat
Vehicles	Flight
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Asia, Historical, World War II
Series	Combat Wings