A character in a jacket holds a red lightsaber against a pink dusk sky over Tatooine's desert

Independent fan project · Unreal Engine 5.8 · Coming soon

SWG Enhanced

Star Wars Galaxies on a modern engine.

SWG Enhanced is a new client for Windows, Linux and Mac. It rebuilds the original Star Wars Galaxies in Unreal Engine 5.8 from your own game files, connects to the servers you know, and loads travel within a planet in about a second and a half.

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Captured in clientTatooine · dusk

1.5s

Load time when you travel within a planet

7,274

of the original game's 7,277 animations play. The other three files are empty.

100%

of terrain, flora and water read from your own game files

64-bit

Native client, free of the original's 32-bit memory limit

Six ignited lightsabers in red, blue, green, purple, yellow and white standing over an ocean horizon

In client · Six crystal colours

Professions

Lightsabers, Force powers and professions, rebuilt from the original

Lightsabers ignite in their crystal's colour with glow, hum and colour-matched trails, as they did in the original game. Combat, Jedi, crafting, medical, outdoors and entertainment professions have their skills restored and tested live, Force powers included.

  • Saber glow and trailsRestored
  • Force powersRestored
  • Professions tested live33
Mos Eisley's domed buildings seen from a rooftop, with a flat-topped mesa rising behind the town

In client · Mos Eisley, Tatooine

The world

Tatooine to Naboo, decoded in full

The terrain, flora and water decoders are complete, so every planet is built from your own game files. On top of that, Enhanced is tuned for speed: distant buildings, shadows and faded trees cost less, so a city at sunset stays smooth.

  • Same-planet load1.5 s
  • Coronet GPU time, sun low2.4 → 1.1 ms
  • Terrain, flora and waterRestored
A damaged desert structure pouring dark smoke into the sky

In client · Damage state, blazing

Effects

The original effects, working again

Damage states on lairs, turrets and harvesters, turtles on Naboo's lakes, butterflies and pollen over the plants, and fireworks all come from the original game's effect files, now drawn by Unreal Engine.

  • Damage statesRestored
  • Ambient life and fireworksRestored
  • Cloth, fur and metal sheenRestored
A character stands in a Naboo meadow with the chat window and toolbar along the bottom of the screen

In client · Naboo, chat and toolbar

Interface

The interface you already know

Radar, chat, hotbars, datapad, mail, buffs and the combat queue follow the original layouts, and Esc and the radial menus behave as they always did. New in Enhanced: you can import your own chat font.

  • Original windows and menusRestored
  • Original gamma and bloomRestored
  • Import your own chat fontNew
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From the client

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The Mos Eisley cantina, full of patrons around the central bar
Mos Eisley cantina · Tatooine
A player fighting an ancient graul at dusk, with the hotbars and target window on screen
Fighting an ancient graul · Dantooine

Devlog

Latest builds

Jedi, crafting and support professions pass

Force powers, heals and self powers, crystal tuning and saber crafting work as in the original. Medic, Doctor, Combat Medic, Scout, Ranger, Creature Handler, every crafting and trade profession, Entertainer, Dancer, Musician, Image Designer and Politician were all tested live.

Combat professions pass

Rifleman, Pistoleer, Carbineer, Teras Käsi, Swordsman, Pikeman and Fencer join Brawler, Marksman and Commando: every special plays its original animation, effect and sound, tested live. Lightsaber attacks and missing Jedi ability icons were fixed too.

Combat and effects

Lightsabers now ignite in their crystal colour, completing the original game's particle effects. Plant effects, damage states and fireworks work again, and a texture fix brought back 11 original images.

Fonts, display options and faster shadows

Brightness, contrast and gamma now behave as in the original, and bloom works. Faded trees no longer cost shadow time. Women use their own animations again, droids no longer freeze, and spiders fight properly.

Release

Coming soon

SWG Enhanced isn't available to download yet. Follow the devlog to see each build as it lands.

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What you'll need at launch

  • A 64-bit Windows, Linux or Mac computerEnhanced will run on all three.
  • Your Star Wars Galaxies installEnhanced reads the original game files from your SWG folder.
  • An account on a game serverEnhanced connects to the servers you already play on. Website accounts are separate from game-server accounts.

A fan project, made by players

SWG Enhanced is an independent project made by Star Wars Galaxies fans. It has no backing, funding or endorsement from Disney, Lucasfilm or LucasArts, and it is not affiliated with them or with Daybreak Game Company (formerly Sony Online Entertainment).

Star Wars Galaxies, its worlds and its features were created by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts. Enhanced rebuilds that original game in a new engine. Where something on this site is new, we say so.

Star Wars, Star Wars Galaxies and all related names and marks belong to their respective owners. The client reads the original game's files from your own Star Wars Galaxies installation.