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Heretic II

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Heretic II
Heretic II cover
Developers
Raven Software
Linux Loki Software
Mac OS (Classic) MacPlay
Publishers
Activision
Engines
id Tech 2
Release dates
Windows October 31, 1998
Linux November 15, 1999
Mac OS (Classic) November 22, 2002
Heretic II on Wikipedia

Warnings

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

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
A demo is available, but the single-player portion cannot initially be played due to a date delimiter that does not allow it to run after November 1, 1998;[1] there is a patch that fixes this.
Owners of the Loki Software Linux port of the game should consider using the installer from LIfLG, if you wish to run the game on a newer system. It is currently in beta.
An Amiga version is also confirmed to exist, released in 2000.

Essential improvements

Patches

Enhancement Pack v1.06 is the latest official patch of the game, with changes to gameplay and several fixes.
Enhancement Pack v1.07 is a community patch that includes Enhancement Pack v1.06, as well as support for widescreen resolutions and other changes.

Heretic II CAS

A custom launcher that adds contrast adaptive sharpening, widescreen and OpenAL support, EAX reverb, and positional audio.
Requires Enhancement Pack v1.06.
In very early development; framerate is capped at 30 FPS, and crashes will occur.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename Bumper.smk[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\base\VIDEO\.
  2. Delete or rename Bumper.smk.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\user\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Linux ~\.loki\heretic2
Heretic II CAS: <path-to-game>\poruser\
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\user\save\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Linux ~\.loki\heretic2\save\
Heretic II CAS: <path-to-game>\poruser\save\

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Use H2Resolution.exe[2]
  1. Install Enhancement Pack v1.07 into <path-to-game>.
  2. Open H2Resolution.exe.
  3. Enter your resolution into the Width and Height fields and press OK.
  4. Launch the game.
  5. Either open the console with ~ and type in set vid_mode 3, or select the 640 x 480 resolution in the Video Settings menu.
Change resolution manually through a config file[2]
  1. Install Heretic II CAS into <path-to-game>.
  2. Start the game through Heretic2Portals.exe.
  3. Go to Heretic II CAS's configuration file(s) location.
  4. Open config.cfg with a text editor.
  5. Enter your resolution into the r_vidWidth and r_vidHeight fields and press OK.

Field of view (FOV)

Change FOV manually[2]
  1. Install Enhancement Pack v1.07 or Heretic II CAS into <path-to-game>.
  2. Launch the game.
  3. Open the console with ~.
  4. Type in either fov X in Enhancement Pack v1.07 or r_fov X in Heretic II CAS and enter, with X being your FOV of choice.

Alternatively, with Enhancement Pack v1.07 installed:

  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open config.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Find set fov and enter your chosen FOV.

Input settings

General settings, including categorised inputs.
General settings, including categorised inputs.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Co-op, Versus
Online play
8 Co-op, Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
OpenGL
Glide 2.5.3
Software renderer
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OSS OSS is Linux only
Interface SDL SDL is Linux only
Cutscenes Smacker
Multiplayer GameSpy

Issues fixed

Windows 7/8/10

Cannot install from CD

Drag and drop install file[2]
  1. Insert the Heretic II CD.
  2. Go to the bin folder on the CD.
  3. Drag H2_Setup.dbd onto demo32.EXE.
  4. Install as normal.

Music does not loop

Use _inmm.dll[4]
  1. Install _inmm.dll.
  2. Rip the music from the Heretic II CD as MP3 files.
  3. Drag quake2.dll from <path-to-game> onto _inmmcnf.exe in _inmm.dll's install folder to patch it.
  4. Run _inmmcnf.exe.
  5. Set Default to DirectShow on the Method tab.
  6. Go to the _inmm.ini tab and add the BGM tracks.
  7. Save the _inmm.ini file to <path-to-game>.
Use Heretic II CAS[5]
  1. Install Heretic II CAS into <path-to-game>.
  2. Create a folder named sound in <path-to-game>/portals, then another folder inside named music.
  3. Rip the music from the Heretic II CD as WAV files.
  4. Move the music to <path-to-game>/portals/sound/music and rename each of them to Track1, Track2, Track3, etc.

Linux

No sound

This happens due to the fact the game uses OSS for sound output only.
General[citation needed]
The software is not updated frequently.

Install the osspd package (Some distros like ArchLinux refers the package as ossp) and enable/start the osspd/osspd.service service.

If using PulseAudio[citation needed]

Run the game with padsp command (It is included with main PulseAudio package, if not, look for pulseaudio-utils)

If using ALSA[citation needed]
  1. Install alsa-oss package
  2. Load the following kernel modules as root with modprobe command:
  • snd-seq-oss
  • snd-pcm-oss
  • snd-mixer-oss

Run the game with aoss -32 (On 32 bit system just use aoss)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz with 3D hardware accelerator
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA DirectX-compatible video card
2 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2.2.x Linux kernel
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 260 MB
Video card (GPU)
Other OSS compatible sound and glibc-2.1

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