Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
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Developers | |
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Traveller's Tales | |
Publishers | |
Activision | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 19, 2000 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Platform |
Series | Toy Story |
Toy Story | |
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Subseries of Pixar | |
Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story | 1996 |
Toy Story | 1996 |
Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue | 1999 |
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command | 2000 |
Toy Story Mania! | 2010 |
Toy Story 3: The Video Game | 2010 |
Toy Story: Smash It! | 2013 |
Toy Story Drop! | 2019 |
Key points
- Has problems running on modern machines without patches. See Issues fixed and Issues unresolved.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Simple disc check. See Bypass disc check. |
Essential improvements
Toy Story 2 Fix for Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
- Modified version of Toy Story 2 Fix which fixes many compatibility issues with the game and adds widescreen support.
Install the Toy Story 2 Fix |
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Bypass disc check
Edit registry entries |
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Higher quality music
- The PC version uses much lower quality music files compared to the console versions.
Replace music tracks with higher quality DC music tracks[1] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\BuzzXX.sav[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | Use dgVoodoo 2. | ||
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. | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Capped at 60 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Ray tracing (RT) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | No mouse support. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | The game launcher and controller setup require a keyboard. The game itself is fully controllable. | |
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
DualShock 4 controllers |
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Generic/other controllers | ||
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Button prompts | ![]() |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Italian | "Buzz Lightyear da Comando Stellare". | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | "Buzz Lightyear do Comando Estelar" (Positivo Informática).[2] |
Issues unresolved
Background music distortion
- After an unspecified amount of time, the background music will become distorted. Pausing and un-pausing the game will fix it, but restarts the music.
Issues fixed
"Unable to enumerate a suitable device" error
Install the Toy Story 2 Fix |
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Use dgVoodoo |
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Patch game executable[3] |
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Slowdown on modern machines
Install the Toy Story 2 Fix |
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"Buzz Lightyear is not correctly installed, please re-install" error
Run buzz.exe as an admin.
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Game asks for the CD even when it is inserted
- The game fails to detect the CD when it is inserted on drives other than D: and E:
Insert the CD only to D: or E: drives |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 | |
Software renderer |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Command line arguments
- See command line arguments on how to use the following options.
Parameter | Description |
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-high | Forces FMV scenes to be played in 16bpp ("high color"). If not specified and the game detects a sufficiently fast CPU, the FMV scenes will be played in 32bpp instead. |
-log | Creates a log file at <path-to-game>\toy2.log |
-mpeg | Disables FMV scenes. |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, ME, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 266 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 160 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible | 8 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 replace <path-to-game> with the full path of your installation folder.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).
References
- ↑ Verified by User:icup321 on 2022-03-13
- Converted and tested DC tracks to be working with the PC version, all of them are higher quality than the stock PC Music files, and a few were missing from the original release. It does not contain voice files.
- ↑ Anasoft Distribuição (archived) - last accessed on 2023-10-01
- ↑ https://www.speedrun.com/blosc/guide/l4rx5 (March 2022)