Get started

You download Reborn, point it at your own Xbox 360 copy of Battlefield 1943 once, and pick a server. The first start walks you through the rest.

What you need

Windows: Windows 10 or 11, 64 bit.
Graphics card: One with Vulkan. NVIDIA GTX 10 series, AMD RX 5000 series, Intel Arc or newer is recommended.
The game: Your own copy of Battlefield 1943 for Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade): its package file from your console. The PlayStation 3 version does not work.
Disk space: About 1 GB.
Internet: A connection to play online.

Step 1 of 5

Download

Open the latest release on GitHub and download BF1943-Reborn-(version)-windows-x64.zip.
Unzip it somewhere you can write to, for example C:\Games. Program Files is not a good place.
Start bf1943.exe.

If Windows refuses to start it. Windows 11 can say that rexruntime.dll "is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error" (Bad Image, 0xc0e90002). The download is not broken. The builds are not code signed yet, and Windows 11's Smart App Control has not cleared this build's files. Ask on our Discord if this stops you.

Step 2 of 5

Bring your own copy

Battlefield 1943 Reborn runs on the game files from your own Xbox 360 copy. Point us to them once and we set everything up. Nothing of the game is downloaded or shared.

Your game packageThe single file in 5841097E\000D0000, from your console's drive or a backup you made

An unpacked game folderA folder holding default.xex

Choose your game package or folder. Nothing is copied until the files check out. The game is then installed into the folder named game, once.

On your Xbox 360 the game is a single file in Content\0000000000000000\5841097E\000D0000. The setup's "Where do I find them?" button explains how to copy it from your console.

Please do not share game files. Everyone installs their own copy. Do not ask for the game's files here or on our Discord, and do not offer them.

Step 3 of 5

Let it prepare the shaders

Your graphics card builds every shader the game uses, once, so nothing stutters or pops in while you play. This happens after you install and after each update.

Step 4 of 5

Choose your name and your settings

Choose your soldier name. It is the name other players see on the scoreboard and in the server list.

The setup then goes through display, graphics, controls and button prompts, and asks for your playstyle: Modern or Classic. Every choice is in Settings afterwards, any time.

Step 5 of 5

Pick a server

PlayStraight into the busiest server with room, in your chosen playstyle

Server browserOfficial servers, community servers and Direct connect. Join any of them

To play with friends only, Create Private Match hosts a match on your own PC, and they join it by Direct connect. More about private matches

Good to know

Where your things are

Your settings, logs and crash reports stay on your PC, in the folder user next to the game.

Updating

To update to a new build, copy its files over your current folder. Your game and user folders stay.

Reporting a problem

Found a bug, a crash or something that feels wrong? Tell us in the playtest's bug reports channel on our Discord. Say what you did, what you saw and what you expected.

Your log helps us most: attach the file bf1943.log from your user folder. Crash reports are in the crashes folder beside it.

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