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General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- A free demo version is available from GameFront.
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest official patch is 1.06.15 (a.k.a. 8A or 030700), available from Patches-Scrolls and GameFront.
Skip intro videos
Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
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Aside from disabling the intro video this fix is also known to resolve an issue where BINKPLAY.exe throws an error when starting the game.
- Go to
<path-to-game> .
- Delete or rename
DF2INTRO.BIK .
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No sound in game
Delete/rename dsound.dll[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game> .
- Delete or rename
dsound.dll .
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Support for 1024x768
The game supports the 1024x768 resolution but a config file needs to be changed.
Increase Resolution to 1024x768[1]
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- Open the
<path-to-game>\df2.cfg file with a text editor.
- Find the
game_res value and change it to 6.
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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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Doesn't pause on lost focus |
Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Ukrainian |
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Fan translation and full dubbing by TSF, download. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Issues unresolved
Broken hardware renderer
- The hardware renderer is broken on modern operating systems, causing severe graphical corruption and depth buffer problems. Using dgVoodoo 2 helps these issues partially, but does not fix the depth errors. A patch by Dege which improved the depth buffer problems to some extent is available in this Vogons thread.
Crash when switching to the Voice-over-Net settings
- When switching through the settings tabs, the Voice-over-Net tab causes the game to crash or freeze on modern systems. Some users report that running the game in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode prevents this.
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
7 |
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Software renderer |
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Glitchy on modern hardware, but playable |
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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System requirements
Steam
Windows |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
2000, XP, Vista (in XP compatibility mode) |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium II 400 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
530 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
SVGA 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible |
Disc Version
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95 |
98, NT |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium II | |
System memory (RAM) |
64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
120 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
SVGA-compatible
| Nvidia Riva TNT DirectX 6 compatible |
Other |
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3D accelerator card not required but recommended. |
Notes
References