Patrician II: Quest for Power
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Developers | |
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Ascaron Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Europe | Infogrames |
North America | Strategy First |
Russia | 1C Company |
GOG.com | Kalypso Media Digital |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 24, 2000 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 76 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Business, Strategy |
Vehicles | Naval/watercraft |
Themes | Europe |
Series | Patrician |
Patrician | |
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The Patrician | 1992 |
Patrician II: Quest for Power | 2000 |
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse | 2003 |
Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade | 2010 |
Patrician II: Quest for Power is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric business and strategy game in the Patrician series.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | German release: ProtectDISC Software DRM for base game, SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1] for expansion. Internationally: SecuROM DRM |
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GOG.com | Bundled with The Patrician. Uses GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper. |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Aufschwung der Hanse | German language only. Bundled in the Gold Edition, which is sold internationally as Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse |
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest official patch for the original German release is 1.30: link
- The latest official patch for the German-only expansion is 1.1: Expansion | Gold Edition
- The latest official patch for international versions is 1.1: US English | Dutch
Skip intro video
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\P2.cfg[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Only supports 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024. Menu is hardcoded to 800x600. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | GOG's custom wrapper includes support for this. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | GOG's custom wrapper includes support for this. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German | Retail only. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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Local play | Hot seat |
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LAN play | |||
Online play | The official multiplayer service has been shut down. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw | 7 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Miles Sound System | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, ME, 2000 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 266 MHz | Intel Pentium III 450 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 370 MB | 530 MB |
Video card (GPU) | 800x600 resolution 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0 compatible | 1280x1024 resolution 16 MB of VRAM |
Other | 4x CD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] 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.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16