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Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition

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Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition
Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition cover
Developers
Gearbox Software
Blackbird Interactive
macOS (OS X) Aspyr Media
Publishers
Gearbox Software
OS X Aspyr Media
Release dates
Windows February 25, 2015
macOS (OS X) August 6, 2015
Reception
Metacritic 86
OpenCritic 87
IGDB 90
Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition on IGDB
Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition on MobyGames
Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Homeworld
Homeworld 1999
Homeworld: Cataclysm 2000
Homeworld 2 2003
Homeworld Remastered Edition 2015
Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition 2015
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak 2016
Homeworld 3 2024

General information

Encyclopedia Hiigara - A wiki for everything Homeworld related
Homeworld Shipyards - A fairly old but big Homeworld fan site
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.co.uk
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Collector's Edition only
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com
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Collector's Edition only
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac App Store
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Currently no online multiplayer or mod support.
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
All Windows versions require Steam DRM.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\HomeworldRM\Data\Animatics\
  2. Delete or rename GBXlogo.webm.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.
In-game HUD settings.
In-game HUD settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\HomeworldRM\Bin\Profiles\Profile1[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/244160/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/244160/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
UI is spanned across monitors and have scaling issues.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Up to 16x MSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Adds noticeable mouse lag.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
SFX, Speech, Music and UI.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
8 Versus

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 7777, 28900, 28910
UDP 7777, 27900
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 3.3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
32-bit only.[1]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer SHiFT, Steamworks

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz
AMD Athlon II X2 2.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
ATI Radeon HD 4000
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 3.3 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.9.5
Processor (CPU) Intel 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 3870
Nvidia GeForce 640M
Intel HD 4000
512 MB of VRAM


Notes

  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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/244160/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (244160) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References