Frank Herbert's Dune

Dune
Dune	1992
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty	1992
Dune 2000	1998
Emperor: Battle for Dune	2001
Frank Herbert's Dune	2001
OpenRA (unofficial)	2010
Dune: Spice Wars	2023
Dune: Imperium	2024
Dune: Awakening	2025

Warnings

RenderWare games may not work on Windows 11 24H2 or later without using a DirectSound wrapper (see the engine page for details).

Frank Herbert's Dune is a singleplayer third-person action, shooter and TPS game in the Dune series.

The game is a flawed PlayStation 2 port, with major rendering glitches on modern systems.

General information

Official Website (retrieved)

Dune Wiki - The Duniverse

Dune2K.com - A major Dune fansite with an active community

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\configpc.cfg^{[Note 1]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Dune_*.sav^{[Note 1]}

External Configuration Tool

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Can be set by editing configuration file(s) location
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Can be set by editing configuration file(s) location.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

An external configuration tool can be accessed with <path-to-game>\VideoCfg.exe or through a Start Menu shortcut.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and Sound Effects/Speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese				^[3]
Brazilian Portuguese				Released as "Duna" (Infogrames do Brasil).
Russian				1C Localization.
Spanish

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, read importent hints in profile introdution. `Note:` Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Use dgVoodoo 2^[4]
Download dgVoodoo 2. Extract `dgVoodooCpl.exe`, as well as `D3DImm.dll` and `DDraw.dll` from the `MS\x86` subfolder to `<path-to-game>`.

Set the `ZBuffer` option to `16 Bits`^[4]

Use this patch^[4]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 400 MHz	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	540 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0 compatible	32 MB of VRAM

↑ ^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).