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Biohazard 2 (Sourcenext)

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Biohazard 2 (Sourcenext)
Biohazard 2 (Sourcenext) cover
Developers
Capcom
Windows Sourcenext
Publishers
Capcom
Release dates
Windows February 17, 2006[1]
Taxonomy
Series Resident Evil
Biohazard 2 (Sourcenext) on IGDB
Biohazard 2 (Sourcenext) guide on StrategyWiki
Biohazard 2 (Sourcenext) on MobyGames
Biohazard 2 (Sourcenext) on Wikipedia
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Resident Evil 4 Ultimate HD Edition 2014
Resident Evil HD Remaster 2015
Resident Evil Zero HD Remaster 2016
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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard 2017
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Resident Evil 3 (2020) 2020
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Resident Evil Village 2021
Resident Evil Re:Verse 2022
Resident Evil 4 (2023) 2023

Warnings

This game is only playable in English with a fan translation (see Localizations for details and other supported languages).

Key points

Port of Biohazard 2 made for Windows 2000 / XP.
Has improved compatibility for modern versions of Windows.
Allows both scenarios to be played without needing to change discs.
Has the highest quality FMVs out of any other release.
Death scenes are censored in Original Mode.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
CD key
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest version is 1.1.0. Save files from version 1.0 will not work with version 1.1.0.

Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirth

Translates the game into English, adds support for higher resolutions by pressing F8, adds XInput, DS3 and DS4 support, fixes some lag issues on Windows 10, fixes color space issues for the prerendered backgrounds, restores some missing audio tracks, removes censored death scenes, and allows the game to run as a portable program.
Provides extended mod support.
Requires version 1.1.0.
Launch game with -config command line argument in order to change options before each game launch.
May require changing dpi compatibility settings to enable resolutions above 720p

RE2SN HQ sound for Classic REbirth

Replaces the audio in the game with higher quality sounds.

RE2SN Better Quality H264 Movies for Classic REbirth

Replaces in-game video cut-scenes with noise reduced and better quality MP4 files.

HD mod by teamx

Improved backgrounds, effects.
HD files, HD fonts .

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Capcom\Biohazard 2[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savedata[Note 2]
This is the default path used by the game. The save file location can be determined by the user by editing the SavePath value in the registry.
CLAIRE_MAX.BIOHAZARD2 and LEON_MAX.BIOHAZARD2 are required to start a new game.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Use Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirth. May require changing dpi compatibility settings to enable resolutions above 720p
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Borderless Gaming or Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirth can be used.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Force in GPU control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Game defaults incorrectly to 28.97 FPS; use Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirth for the intended 30 FPS. Menus and door loading screens run at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
Japanese
FMVs have hardcoded subtitles.
English
Use Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirth for English text.
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation; download.
Spanish
Fan translation by CiTRU5, requires Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirth
Russian
Translation by CasperPRO, requires Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirth. Voice acting by Webcoll (need to unpack to game folder and run xdelta.bat). For subtitles, unzip over fix.
German
Fan translation by Accandon, requires Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirth

Issues fixed

Black screen when playing FMVs

This is generally caused by DirectShow codecs on Windows 10 being incompatible with Nvidia desktop drivers. Versions such as Windows XP do have the codecs to run the cutscenes with no issues.
Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirth makes FMV work again by replacing DirectShow with FFMPEG.[2]

Classic REbirth does not enable resolutions above 720p

Change high DPI compatibility settings
  1. Right-click the game executable (bio2.exe) or desktop shortcut.
  2. Select Properties.
  3. Go to the Compatibility tab.
  4. Click "Change high DPI settings".
  5. Check the box for "Override high DPI scaling behavior".
  6. Make sure "Application" is selected in the drop-down menu.
  7. Press OK.

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.6 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
Other 2x speed CD-ROM


Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  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).

References