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Dino Crisis 2
Dino Crisis 2 cover
Developers
Capcom
Release dates
Windows August 20, 2002
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror
Art styles Realistic, Pre-rendered graphics
Themes Contemporary, Horror
Series Dino Crisis
Dino Crisis 2 on HowLongToBeat
Dino Crisis 2 on IGDB
Dino Crisis 2 on MobyGames
Dino Crisis 2 on Wikipedia
Dino Crisis
Dino Crisis 2000
Dino Crisis 2 2002

Dino Crisis 2 is a singleplayer cinematic camera survival horror game in the Dino Crisis series.

Key points

Capped at 31 FPS
Game has low stability, and it sometimes won't boot unless patched with something like dgVoodoo2.[1]
Gamepads are poorly supported or go undetected; remapping them is hardly supported.[1]
Bad sound quality and behavior: all tracks are poorly compressed, loop at random points, and generally sound very muffled or not normalized.[1]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\dino2.cfg[Note 1]
The config file is encrypted.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVE*.DAT[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use dgVoodoo2

Windows 10 might have a DPI issue right click dino2.exe go to compatibility tab change high DPI settings check both boxes (program DPI)(high DPI scaling override).

Change use the DPI that's set for my main display drop-Down to (I open this program) and the override high scaling behavior scaling performed by: drop-Down to (application)
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Always on top
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 31 FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Japanese
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB (Compact Installation)
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 compatible

[Notes] Working on Windows 11 With Ryzen And Ampere Card No Extra Fixes Needed (May not work for all, Give it a try) Red Dots On Screen Are Not A Serious Problem More Of A Glitch As They Should Display As Round White Dots (No Fix At This Time)

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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