B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th

B-17 Flying Fortress
B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action	1992
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th	2000

General information

Bombs Away game subforums

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM^{[Note 1]}
Retail		Infogrames reissues of the title remove SafeDisc and allow the game to be played without the disc after installation.
GOG.com
Steam		Can be played without Steam running.^[3]
GamersGate (unavailable)
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
Humble Store (unavailable)

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

System	Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/328900/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saved Games^{[Note 3]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/328900/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

External video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

In-game key map settings.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

In-game audio settings.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 300 MHz	Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	700 MB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/328900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (328900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).