Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos
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Developers | |
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Particle Systems | |
Publishers | |
2001-2003 | Infogrames |
2003-present | Atari |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 28, 2001 |
Taxonomy | |
Series | Independence War |
Independence War | |
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Independence War | 1997 |
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos | 2001 |
Key points
- For Windows 8 and later apply the low frame rate fix.
- Released as Edge of Chaos: Independence War 2 in Europe and Galaxy Commander: Edge of Chaos for the German re-release.
- To run the game, you need to have an optical drive or simulate one (e.g. with WinCDEmu). See here for more info.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
GamersGate | Includes the GOG.com installer. | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Steam |
Demo
A free demo can be downloaded here.
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>\flux.ini[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/359630/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\saves\[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/359630/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | See Ultra-widescreen | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | See the WSGF entry. | ||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See Anti-aliasing (AA). | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | On/off only; only applies to HUD lines and orb stalks. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | For Windows 8 and later apply the low frame rate fix. |
Anti-aliasing (AA)
- By default, the game's AA can only be toggled on/off for the in-game HUD lines and orb stalks.
Force Anti-aliasing (AA) using either the Nvidia Control Panel or AMD Catalyst Control Center[citation needed] |
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Windowed
Set windowed mode in flux.ini[citation needed] |
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Ultra-widescreen
DirectX7 compatibility wrapper ddraw.dll.[citation needed] |
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A crash can occur once loading the game if the selected graphics card in |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Possible if configs\default.ini is modified. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Possible if configs\default.ini is modified. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | ||
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Speech, Music, Movie, and Effects. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Russian | Fan translation based unofficial translate «Fargus Multimedia» |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | |||
Online play |
Issues fixed
Low frame rate in fullscreen mode
- This issue occurs on Windows 8 and later.
Use low frame rate fix |
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Apply the low frame rate fix |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Input | DirectInput | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | XP |
Processor (CPU) | 600 MHz Pentium or better | 2 GHz Dual Core |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 2 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1 GB | 4 GB |
Video card (GPU) | Riva TNT 2 or better DirectX 8 compatible | HD 3000 Series or better DirectX 9 compatible |
- These requirements are for the GOG.com release.
Notes
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (359630) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.