How to Get Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Working
Introduction
Jedi Knight is nearly twenty years old now, but I still consider it to be one of the best Star Wars games ever made. It is a straight-up, no-nonsense, you're-a-Jedi-now-go-kill-some-Stormtroopers FPS packed with cool weapons, force powers and secrets. But before I get carried away with reviewing it, I should come to the purpose of this guide: how to get the damn thing working on modern Windows?
OpenJKDF2
Jedi Knight is a notoriously tricky game to run on modern Windows. Fortunately for us, the community has created OpenJKDF2, an open-source remake of the original game engine which works out of the box, along with a number of improvements such as being able to change the FOV through the in-game menu.
Jedi Knight Remastered
For the original, vanilla experience you can run OpenJKDF2 directly, but if you want to modernize the graphics then I would recommend Jedi Knight Remastered. This uses OpenJKDF2 as a base, but also includes the following mods:
EMJK (Enhancement Mod): Enhanced models, lightsabers, muzzle flashes and explosions.
