Crimson Skies

Crimson Skies is an arcade flight simulator, set in an alternate reality in the year 1937. Based on a FASA pen-and-paper game, the player is cast as a daring rogue who flies missions for fame and fortune. The planes look like a mixture of futuristic planes and planes from WW2.

The single player missions let the player complete jobs such as finding a treasure, hijacking an experimental plane from the enemy or defending their base, a huge zeppelin.

Support summary

	Support	Method	HUD
Widescreen:	Hor+	Hack	Proper
Ultra/Super-Wide:	Hor+	Hack	Optimized
Multi-Monitor:	Hor+	Hack	Optimized
4k UltraHD:	Hor+	Hack	Optimized

Rendered Cut-Scene:	Hor+
FMV Cut-Scene:	Windowboxed

Game information

Game status:

Released

Release Date:

Monday, 18 September, 2000

Tested Version:

1.2

Play styles:

Single player, Competitive

Setting:

Genre:

Combat Flight, Arcade

Developer:

Zipper Interactive

Links:

⋅ Wikipedia ⋅ PCGamingWiki

Store Links:

Comparison Screenshots

4:3 Screenshot
16:10 Screenshot
16:9 Screenshot
Ultra-Wide (21:9) Screenshot
Super-Wide (32:9) Screenshot
Eyefinity / Surround Screenshot

Solutions & Issues

Baseline (Widescreen) Solution & Issues

Solution №1:
This version is for using with dgVoodoo2 wrapper

Replace CRIMSON.EXE in the game folder, depending on the desired resolution
Download dgVoodoo2 wrapper (tested on v2.54)
Run dgVoodooCpl.exe, go to DirectX tab
- uncheck "dgVoodoo Watermark"
- check "Bilinear blit stretch"
- set "VRAM" value the same as your videocard haves
- set "Texture Filtering" - "Force anisotropic 16x" and "Antiasliasing (MSAA)" - "8x" (not really necessary, you may skip this step)
Copy DDraw.dll and D3DImm.dll files from dgVoodoo2_54\MS\ to the game folder

dgVoodoo2 settings:

Spoiler:

Main menu uses 800x600. In addition you can force resolution through dgVoodoo, then main menu will use your custom resolution, but it will be stretched then.

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Solution №2:

Copy all content from files available from the PC Gaming Wiki Community Files (search there) to the game folder.
Resolution can be setup in csfix.ini
For example, for 1920x1080:
ScreenWidth=1920
ScreenHeight=1080

Note: csfix may cause low game performance and graphical glitches

Ultra/Super-Wide (21:9/32:9) Specific Solution & Issues

Same as widescreen

Eyefinity / Surround Specific Solution & Issues

Same as widescreen

4k UHD Specific Solution & Issues

Same as widescreen