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Dungeon Siege II

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Dungeon Siege II
Dungeon Siege II cover
Developers
Gas Powered Games
Publishers
Microsoft Studios
Steam Square Enix
Engines
Siege Engine[1]
Release dates
Windows August 16, 2005
Dungeon Siege II on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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Key points

The Broken World expansion is unavailable digitally, and installing it manually on digital versions will significantly decrease the framerate.[2]
GameSpy online services have been shut down.
Since the Windows 10 Creators Update the mouse no longer works in the main menu, except when using Windowed or Borderless Fullscreen. See No Mouse Cursor.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
SmarteSECURE DRM.[citation needed]
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Version differences

The Steam version has no multiplayer and does not include the Broken World expansion.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Broken World
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use nointro parameter[3]

Use the nointro=true command line argument.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Dungeon Siege 2\DungeonSiege2.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39200/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Dungeon Siege 2\save\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39200/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.
External settings (DS2VideoConfig.exe).
External settings (DS2VideoConfig.exe).

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish

Network

The Steam version does not include multiplayer.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4 Co-op
For 8 player co-op use oldschool=true parameter.[4]
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[5] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 2300-2400, 6073
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

No Mouse Cursor

Use Borderless fullscreen windowed.[6]

You are also required to run Dungeon Siege 2 in windowed mode by setting the start parameter (via Steam or shortcut) as follows: fullscreen=false

To prevent the UI from being almost unusable (see notes), you have to set 'No Size Change' for the game within the Borderless Gaming application.

Notes

This causes the main menu to use the monitor resolution, making the UI appear in the top-left corner. Furthermore, the UI in-game will be hard to navigate, because cursor position does not fit position of icons.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy GameSpy services have been shut down.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP1 or newer
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz equivalent or higher processor
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon series 7000 or better
Nvidia GeForce series
Intel Extreme Graphics 82845, 82865, 82915

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/39200/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (39200) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References