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Lords of the Realm II

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Lords of the Realm II
Lords of the Realm II cover
Developers
Impressions Games
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Rebellion Developments
Release dates
DOS October 31, 1996
Windows October 31, 1996
Mac OS (Classic) 1997
macOS (OS X) April 23, 2013[1]
Taxonomy
Series Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm II on MobyGames
Lords of the Realm II on Wikipedia
Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm 1994
Lords of the Realm II 1996
Lords of the Realm III 2003

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
CD contains both Windows and DOS versions.
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows version. Includes the Siege Pack expansion and Lords of the Realm.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows version. Includes the Siege Pack expansion.
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Includes the Siege Pack expansion and Lords of the Realm.
Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Siege Pack
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename Intro.smk[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename Intro.smk. The game will now go directly to the main menu.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\LORDS2.INF[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/397350/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\*.SAV[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/397350/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
Sierra Internet Gaming System option no longer works.

Connection types

Issues fixed

Distorted colors

Set colors to 256[citation needed]
  1. Right-click on the shortcut to the game and click Properties.
  2. Go to the compatibility tab.
  3. Check Run in 256 Colors and Run in 648x480 screen resolution.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) 486 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 34 MB
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References