Hard Truck 2

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Hard Truck 2

Developers
	SoftLab-NSK
Publishers
North America	ValuSoft
Europe	JoWood Productions
Russia	1C Company
Release dates
Windows	June 19, 2000
Taxonomy
Series	Hard Truck, King of the Road

Hard Truck
Hard Truck	1998
Hard Truck 2	2000
Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel	2002
Hard Truck Apocalypse	2005
Hard Truck Tycoon	2006
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans	2006
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade	2007
Rig 'n' Roll	2009

Key points

Released as Hard Truck 2: King of the Road in Europe June 7, 2002

Released as Дальнобойщики II in Russia September 27, 2001

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Hard Truck 2: King of the Road
ZOOM Platform		Uses GOG's custom DirectX wrapper.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro
Open the game folder Rename, move elsewhere, or delete the following files, "kotr.avi" "kotrDemo.avi"

Patches

Official NA 1005 Patch

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Change Driver / Profile Menu

Single Player Menu

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\truck.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\*.pl1

DRIVER.pl1 is the default profile. New profiles can be created under the Change Driver menu.

Player name can be changed simply by renaming the file.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics Menu

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		4:3 only - choice of Small (640x480), Medium (800x600), or Large (1024x960).
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		In the GOG.com version, the dxcfg.exe application can achieve this.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		In the GOG.com version, the dxcfg.exe application can achieve this.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		In the GOG.com version, the dxcfg.exe application can achieve this.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		In the GOG.com version. Can be forced off in dxcfg.exe.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Controls Menu

In-Game Controller Menu

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Keys are mapped by double clicking on the control name.
Mouse acceleration		Controlled by Windows Enhance Pointer Precision setting.
Mouse sensitivity		Controlled by Windows Mouse Sensitivity setting.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Adjustments are made via the in-game "On The Road" pause menu.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Can be set in the truck.ini file.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		The game seems to only recognize a single analogue stick on most controllers.[citation needed]
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Force feedback (adjustments are made via the in-game "On The Road" pause menu).
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Keyboard, Mouse, Joystick.

Audio

Sound Menu

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles		No spoken dialogue
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian				Using Russian in the NA release only changes the splashscreen, and the plain text UI elements. All of the UI elements that are bitmap based remain English.
Portuguese				Retail release only (Truck Racing 2001: Os Gigantes da Estrada) distributed by Playgames

Change Game Language to Russian
Go to the configuration files location Open TRUCK.INI change this line: [ENV] langv=rus Save file to desktop, then copy into <path-to-game> and replace existing TRUCK.INI.

Network

Multiplayer Host Configuration

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play		8	Versus Versus mode only, no business competition or freight racing.
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

"your computer does not have graphic accelerator" error on launch

No Accelerator Error

Use dgVoodoo2
Download dgVoodoo2. Extract the contents of the MS folder into the installation folder. If the game does not start, set htruck2.exe to run in the Windows XP (Service Pack 3) Windows Compatibility Mode. Notes dgVoodooSetup.exe can be used to change various settings (e.g. disabling the dgVoodoo watermark).

Issues unresolved

• Collisions with other vehicles may cause the vehicle models to get bound (stuck) together.

The impact of this issue can be reduced by changing the game resolution as follows.
1600x1200 (Russian title) or 1280x960 (English title) assuming your graphics card supports these resolutions.
If you must use resolutions of 1024x768 or less, avoid colliding with cars and objects as you may experience game breaking physics.

• Falling through the floor or walls of the game map.

This often occurs after changing seats with other drivers many times in a short period.
Change seats again or call 911 (use caution as changing seats can cause other issues, see bugs below)

• After changing seats (including changing back and forth) during the trucking mission, some of the rivals disappear.

This makes it impossible to arrive at the destination first. No known fix.

• After conquering the majority of the in-game market share (around 95%), it's no longer possible to find the remaining drivers for hire.

A workaround is to initiate a trucking race, finish it in any position and the remaining unemployed truckers (assuming they participated in the race)
may be for hire after the race. This workaround is not guaranteed.

• After conquering the majority of the in-game market share, you often witness your employees engaging into any race you initiate.

(This may be triggered by starting the race directly or by changing seats).
While often considered an in-game mechanic, this is very likely a memory leak. No known workaround.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7
DirectDraw	7
OpenGL	1.2
Glide

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, 2000
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 266	Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	15 MB required (minimal install)	370 MB required (maximum install)
Video card (GPU)	Direct3D compatible hardware accelerator 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible	4 MB of VRAM

Supported GPUs are not explicitly listed in the official system requirements, however, softlab-nsk referenced support for S3, 3dfx, and SiS cards on the Hard Truck 2 website (until they stopped hosting the webpage).