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Black & White 2

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Black & White 2
Black & White 2 cover
Developers
Lionhead Studios
Publishers
Electronic Arts
OS X Feral Interactive
Release dates
Windows October 7, 2005
macOS (OS X) December 2008
Black & White 2 on Wikipedia
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Warnings

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected releases).
The macOS (OS X) release of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Black & White
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Key points

No major issues on modern systems, slightly moddable too.
Playing the game with a CD/DVD is not possible on Windows 10

General information

Official Website
Kayssplace - Black & White Modding Community
The Dead Hamster - Lionhead Games Community

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
 DRM: SafeDisc disc check and CD key for installation.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
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Mac App Store
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 OS X only.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Publisher website
DRM details are not known
 OS X only.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
A demo is available here.
The Windows version of this game is not available digitally.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods Requires Black & White 2 to be installed.
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Patches

It is advised to install all the patches before playing.
No patches have been released for Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods.
Savegames do not carry over the patches.

Patch 1.1

Fixes some serious bugs and crashes.

Patch 1.2

Patch 1.1 is required.
The most notable change is the ability of skipping the tutorial lands, along with more bug and crash fixes.

Utilities

Tiger Unlocker

Unlocks an exclusive creature available after creating a new game.

Wolf Model Fix

Fixes a pretty annoying issue with the Wolf's mesh.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Save game cloud syncing

No save game cloud syncing information; you can edit this page to add it.

Video settings

In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

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Windowed

After doing this use any borderless applications to play with no borders on fullscreen from here.
Instructions

Input settings

In-game input settings.
In-game input settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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System requirements

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 2000/XPXP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz or equivalentPentium 4 or Athlon XP 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB1 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 3.5 GB3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible
Shader model 1.1 support		128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 2.0 support

References