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General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Essential improvements
Patches
- The fan patch creates a Windows NT-compatible executable file called
ig2nt.exe
. This should be the target of any shortcuts.
Running on modern systems
This game runs well with dgVoodoo 2 in 1080p resolution with anti-aliasing. You must set these in dgVoodoo and leave the game's resolution on 1024x768. This method avoids the black video bug.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
Video
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Italian |
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Spanish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Type |
Native |
Players |
Notes |
LAN play |
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Online play |
| 8 |
The official multiplayer service has been shut down. |
Issues unresolved
Blank cutscenes
- Many cinematics in the campaigns play only the sound (most notably the introductions).
Issues fixed
Game crashes on non-4:3 resolutions
- The game will crash on certain screens (fleet info, design, scenario select, etc.) if the display aspect ratio isn't 4:3 in the
ig2.ini
file.
Modify ig2.ini[citation needed]
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- Go to the installation folder.
- Open
ig2.ini .
- Find the line containing
Video mode and modify it so a 4:3 resolution is specified. Example:
Video mode = 1024x768x32
- Save and close the file.
Notes
- Perform this step again whenever
setup.exe is run.
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Stutter on multi-core systems
Modify the game's shortcut target[citation needed]
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- Right-click on the game shortcut.
- From the pop-up menu which appears, select
Properties .
- Change the value of
Target: to %WINDIR%\System32\cmd.exe /C START "Imperium Galactica 2" /normal /affinity 1 "<path-to-game>\ig2nt.exe"
- Click the
OK button.
Notes
- This fix assumes the patches are installed.
- The new value for
Target: assigns the game the first logical core, core 0. To use another processor, change /affinity 1 to another value, such as /affinity 2 to use the second logical core, core 1.
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Game hangs on loading campaign
- The game sometimes hangs if it needs to change disks to load a specific campaign.
Insert the correct game disc before selecting a campaign[citation needed]
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Other information
API
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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macOS (OS X) | |
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Linux | |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95, 98 | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 233 MHz
| Intel Pentium II 300 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
32 MB |
64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
600 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
D3D compatible graphics card | |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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