Icewind Dale II
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Developers | |
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Black Isle Studios | |
Publishers | |
Interplay Entertainment | |
Engines | |
Infinity | |
Release dates | |
Windows | August 27, 2002 |
macOS (OS X) | April 17, 2014[1] |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 83 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | Expansion pack |
Series | Icewind Dale |
Icewind Dale | |
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Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons | |
Icewind Dale | 2000 |
Icewind Dale II | 2002 |
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition | 2014 |
Warnings
Key points
- Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS by default; increasing affects game speed.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
GOG.com | Patched for modern systems. Includes the Adventure Pack expansion. |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Adventure Pack |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete/rename video files[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\icewind2.ini[Note 1] <path-to-game>\Keymap.ini[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\mpsave\[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Use Widescreen mod. UI does not scale and the camera gets zoomed out more the higher the resolution is (zooming in is not possible), so everything becomes very small at high resolutions. | ||
Multi-monitor | Use Widescreen mod. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Use Widescreen mod. UI does not scale and the camera gets zoomed out more the higher the resolution is (zooming in is not possible), so everything becomes very small at high resolutions. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
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 | 30 FPS default cap. Frame rate is tied directly to the game's clock and changing it will change the game speed. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Alt-tabbing crashes the game. | |
EAX support |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Polish | ||||
Russian | 1) Official localization by «Akella» – local retail and GOG.com version. 2) Official localization by «1C-SoftClub - local retail» |
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Russian | Fan translation by prowler |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 6 | Co-op |
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Online play | 6 | Co-op GameSpy services have been shut down;[2] see GameSpy for workarounds. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Issues fixed
Frame Rate and Lag Fix
- Use Aqrit's DDrawFix. The GOG.com version is already patched.
Game does not start on Windows 10 (GOG.com)
- The GOG.com version does not start correctly on Windows 10.
Delete/rename ddraw.dll[3] |
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"Not enough free disk space" error followed by shut down on large capacity partitions
Install Windows compatibility fix |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 OSR2 | 98, ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 350 MHz | Intel Pentium III 500 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 8 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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).