With the XWAU 2025, and even before that, we have some additional tools available that you may or may not know. Since 2025 also features some new tools, we thought it was overdue to have at least some basic information about them available.
This will not be a fully comprehensive list however, so for more in-depth make sure to drop by in the forum.

• XWA Installer Manager
• Babu Frik's Configurator
• Craft Manager
• Joystick Configurator
• C-3PO's Language Configurator (optional)
• General Tools

The XWA InstallerManager will hopefully soon be your one stop shop for all XWA modding. Right now it only offers the XWAU2025 and the C-3PO configurator, but in time we hope to be able to support other mods and AddOns.
It will allow you to easily find, download and install all supported mods. For more information about it and the install process head over here.

This is most likely one of the most used tools you'll need. Here you can configure many of the XWAU settings like graphics features or even some gameplay options.
Here just a few highlights that can be found:

• Reset Game Configuration
  Just in case you messed something up with your configuration, this option will let you reset all the main games configuration settings.
• Game Progress Backup
  If you want to have a copy of both your settings and your pilot, this is where to go. This will copy all required files into your Windows Documents folder under X-Wing Alliance, where you can retrieve them later.
• Special Effects Graphics Settings
  Chose any of the presets (including to disabling the special effects altogether), or change options like Anti-Aliasing, Ray-Tracing and more.
• General Choices
  Some general optimizations can be found here. Most importantly the ability to enable a joystick emulation and altering the size of the in-flight text.
• Dynamic Cockpit Choices
  This section is dedicated for the new dynamic cockpit features. You can disable the following features:
  new enhanced HUD
  switching off the HUD at launch
  wireframe rendering in the HUD
  Cockpit Inertia
• VR / Head Tracking Choices
  Everything related to the VR and head tracking capabilities can be found here.

Plenty of adjustments here for changing the defaults of crafts. Some of those changes will be visible during regular missions, others are used for skirmishes. The Crafts Manager also features a small selection of choices for the Crew Quarters

The name says it all, the Joystick Configurator lets you adjust everything connected to your joystick or controller.
You can remap buttons, select which controller should be used and adjust lots of other settings for your controller.

This is an add-on tool that can be downloaded via the XWA Installer Manager. This is only needed if you want to enjoy the game in another language than English!
In here you will be able to switch your in-game language. This will include the complete UI, most of the missions texts (be aware that there are some issue with that still), and the audio track of the new videos. This will not change the audio messages heard in missions. If you wish to also replace those you have to install the respective language version and then copy over the wav-files into your XWAU directory.
We are hoping to be able to expand this in the future, we will certainly update it with new videos once they are released.
The following languages are available:

• English (default)
• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish

In addition to the Configurators there are also a selection of smaller tools available:

• Installer Backup Folder
  Opens a folder with your current backups from the installations.
• XWA Backup Restorer
  A tool that lets you restore previous versions from your installations
• XWA Hooks Updater
  A very useful tool to keep your hooks up-to-date. All newly released hooks should always be backwards compatible with older XWAU versions, so feel free to regularly update your hooks to make sure you have the most recent features available
• XWA MODs Folder
  Opens a folder with links and descriptions to other modding sites, as well as a place where other mods may place their files.
• XWA Pilot Editor
  New to change anything on your pilot? Want to skip a family mission or change your points or progress? This is the tool to help you
• XWA OPT Showcase
  Opens the folder with the included showcase tools, make sure to read the _readme_.txt to learn how to use them. The following of which are available:
  XwaMissionBackdropsPreview.exe --> lets you view the backdrops in missions
  XwaOptShowcase.exe --> view those gorgeous models outside of the game
  XwaSizeComparison.exe --> An animation showing the size difference of various models.
• XWA Tools Folder
  Opens the location of the XWA Tools Launcher, start XwaToolsLauncher.exe to access the included tools or add more in here.
• XWA Workspace Tools
  Opens the folder with the included workspace tools, make sure to read the _readme_.txt to learn how to use them. The following of which are available:
  XwaShpInstaller.exe --> Install SHP Files
  XwaWorkspaceEditor.exe --> Edit the parameters of ships, stations and other objects
  XwaWorkspaceViewer.exe --> View the parameters of ships, stations and other objects