Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos

Independence War
Independence War	1997
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos	2001

Key points

For Windows 8 and later apply the low frame rate fix.

Released as Edge of Chaos: Independence War 2 in Europe and Galaxy Commander: Edge of Chaos for the German re-release.

To run the game, you need to have an optical drive or simulate one (e.g. with WinCDEmu). See here for more info.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GamersGate		Includes the GOG.com installer.

GOG.com
Steam

Demo

A free demo can be downloaded here.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\movies\` Delete or rename `Infogrames.bik`, `intro.bik`, and `psys.bik`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\flux.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/359630/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saves\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/359630/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	See the WSGF entry.
Windowed	See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Anti-aliasing (AA)	On/off only; only applies to HUD lines and orb stalks.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	For Windows 8 and later apply the low frame rate fix.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

By default, the game's AA can only be toggled on/off for the in-game HUD lines and orb stalks.

Force Anti-aliasing (AA) using either the Nvidia Control Panel or AMD Catalyst Control Center^{[citation needed]}

Windowed

Set windowed mode in flux.ini^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>`. Edit `flux.ini` Change `full_screen = 1` to `full_screen = 0` Save your changes and close the file.

Ultra-widescreen

DirectX7 compatibility wrapper ddraw.dll.^{[citation needed]}

Download the compatibility DDrawCompat wrapper by narzoul.
Place the ddraw.dll file to <path-to-game>/bin/release
Launch the game, change resolution at Options/Graphics/Resolutions
Make sure you select the graphics card.
Done.

A crash can occur once loading the game if the selected graphics card in flux.ini is not available anymore. Please return to the game option, select the available graphics card and try again.

Input

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Possible if configs\default.ini is modified.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Possible if configs\default.ini is modified.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian				Fan translation based unofficial translate «Fargus Multimedia»

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Low frame rate in fullscreen mode

This issue occurs on Windows 8 and later.

Use low frame rate fix
Apply the low frame rate fix

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Input	DirectInput
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	XP
Processor (CPU)	600 MHz Pentium or better	2 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Riva TNT 2 or better DirectX 8 compatible	HD 3000 Series or better DirectX 9 compatible

These requirements are for the GOG.com release.

Notes

↑ ^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).
↑ ^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>/359630/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (359630) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[gamedir-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).

[Proton_path_note-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>/359630/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (359630) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

Developers

	Particle Systems
Publishers
2001-2003	Infogrames
2003-present	Atari
Release dates
Windows	June 28, 2001
Taxonomy
Series	Independence War