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Earthsiege 2

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Earthsiege 2
Earthsiege 2 cover
Developers
Dynamix
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Release dates
Windows 1996
Earthsiege 2 on Wikipedia
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Metaltech
Metaltech: Earthsiege 1994
Metaltech: Battledrome 1994
Earthsiege 2 1996
Starsiege 1999
Tribes (series)

Key points

Re-released as a free download for the series' 20th anniversary.[1]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Official website
DRM-free
 Free download. Does not include music.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip 256 color warning

Go to the compatibility settings for ES.EXE and set 256 color mode.

Modern Windows installer

The Sierrahelp Earthsiege 2 Installer automatically applies the latest patch, rips (or downloads) all of the music tracks in high quality MP3 to play and loop in-game properly, and adds a no-CD patch.

Works with the freeware release.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\DATA\*.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAV\[Note 1]

Video settings

General settings (launcher).
General settings (launcher).
General settings (in-game).
General settings (in-game).

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Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Issues fixed

"VSHELL.EXE - Entry Point Not Found" error on launch

Error message: "The procedure entry point FT_Thunk could not be located in the dynamic link library".
Delete Earthsiege 2 DDRAW.DLL[2]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename DDRAW.DLL.

"You don't have enough virtual memory to run Earthsiege II" error on launch

Use Windows 95 compatibility mode[2]

Set the game to run in Windows 95 compatibility mode.

Game refuses to run under Windows 10

See DirectDraw is broken[3]

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

  1. ↑ 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).

References

  1. ↑ Tribes Universe
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Verified by User:Garrett on 2016-04-27
  3. ↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2016-03-01