General information
- Wargaming.net Orion Forums - Official forums, has a subsection for the original classics
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Realms Beyond - Has a subsection for the series (particularly the classics)
- The Orion Nebula
Availability
Version differences
- Later updates of the game included a Windows 95 version of the executable, called Orion95.exe. This version was highly unoptimized though, particularly laggy when playing multiplayer games. Many don't consider this a true Windows version because of this.
Essential improvements
Run in DOSBox
To improve DOSBox performance make the following changes to the DOSBox configuration file:
- Change
core=auto to core=dynamic
- Change
cycles=auto to cycles=max
Patches
The latest official patch is version 1.31, which can be found here. There is also an unofficial 1.50.17 patch (as of Feb 16, 2020) here (includes a windows-based launcher and optional mods). An older fan patch, 1.40, can be found here in-case 1.50 has something you don't like. Also note that the digital versions have 1.40 pre-installed, info for reverting which back to 1.31 can be found here. Additional patches/mods (possibly obsolete) can be found here, here, here and here.
Source ports
A reversed engineered source port is available.
- OpenMoO2
Game data
In-game general settings.
Configuration file(s) location
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
Video
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)
Input
Audio
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State |
Notes |
| Separate volume controls |
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| Surround sound |
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| Subtitles |
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| Closed captions |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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Windows 95 version only. |
Localizations
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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| French |
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| German |
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| Italian |
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| Spanish |
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| Russian |
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Fan translation, download link #1#2 |
Network
Multiplayer types
Issues fixed
"The program can't start because DPLAY.dll is missing" error (Windows 95 version)
- Even with the fix, the mouse cursor in-game will not render properly
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Add dplay.dll to the installation folder and set up compatibility settings[citation needed]
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- Go to
%WINDIR%\SysWOW64
- Copy
dplayx.dll and paste it into the game installation folder.
- Rename the copied file to
dplay.dll
- Right click on the ORION95.EXE file and select "Properties".
- Go to the "Compatibility" tab and enable Compatibility Mode (set it to "Windows 98 / Windows ME"). Also check 256-color and 640x480 resolution.
- Run the ORION95.EXE file to play the game.
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Corrupt graphics (Windows 95 version)
Mouse issues (Windows 95 version)
- Download this (Windows 2000) or this (XP and later).
Other information
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| DOS video modes |
SVGA |
A VESA wrapper for the LOAD VESA.COM error can be found here. |
Distant World: Legends total conversion
- A MoO2 total conversion for Distant World: Legends is also available here.
System requirements
| DOS | Windows | Mac OS (Classic) | macOS (OS X) | Linux |
| DOS |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
5 |
6.2 |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel 486 66 MHz
| Intel Pentium |
| System memory (RAM) |
8 MB |
16 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
330 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
SVGA graphics card | |
| Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
95, 98 |
XP, Vista, 7, 8 |
| Processor (CPU) |
1 GHz
| 1.4 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) |
256 MB |
512 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
330 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 7 compatible
| DirectX 9 compatible |
| macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
| Operating system (OS) |
10.6.8 |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core Duo 2 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) |
1 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
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| Video card (GPU) |
64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to
<path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
References
