Warnings
- The macOS (OS X) version of this game needs a fix to work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later (see API for details).
Key points
- JA2-Stracciatella adds cross-platform capabilities for Jagged Alliance 2, improves its stability, fixes bugs and provides a stable platform for mod development.
General information
- Unofficial wiki
- The Bear's Pit unofficial forums for game series
- Jagged Alliance 2 source code
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions (Strategy First standalone version)
- Steam Community Discussions (Strategy First Gold version)
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Essential improvements
Patches
The latest official patch 1.12 for Jagged Alliance 2 Gold is available at soggi.org.
JA2-Stracciatella
- JA2-Stracciatella adds cross-platform capabilities for Jagged Alliance 2, improves its stability, fixes bugs and provides a stable platform for mod development.
JA2 v1.13
- JA2 v1.13 provides many gameplay updates and fixes, including new weapons, features, and multiplayer.[4][5] For these reasons, it is a significant shift from the original version.
Skip intro videos
Delete or rename movie files[6]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\Data\
- Delete or rename
Intro.slf .
- This also resolves an issue where the game freezes with a blank screen on startup.[7]
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System |
Location |
Windows |
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macOS (OS X) |
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Linux |
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Steam Play (Linux) |
<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1620/pfx/[Note 2] |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
Video
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Flavor speech (curses, acknowledgements) not subtitled. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Polish |
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Retail only. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Other information
API
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit | ARM |
Notes |
Windows |
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Use JA2-Stracciatella for 64-bit. |
macOS (OS X) | |
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Linux | |
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64-bit and ARM require JA2-Stracciatella.[8] |
Middleware
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95, 98 | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 133 MHz
| Intel Pentium 166 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible | |
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
10.7 |
Processor (CPU) |
1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo |
System memory (RAM) |
1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
1.2 GB |
Video card (GPU) |
256 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
- ↑ 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>/1620/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1620) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
- ↑ 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