Port Royale 2

Port Royale 2

Developers
	Ascaron Entertainment
Publishers
Retail	Take-Two Interactive
Digital	Strategy First
Release dates
Windows	April 30, 2004
Reception
Metacritic	75
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Business, Strategy
Vehicles	Naval/watercraft
Themes	Piracy, North America, South America
Series	Port Royale

Port Royale
Port Royale: Gold, Power and Pirates	2002
Port Royale 2	2004
Port Royale 3: Pirates & Merchants	2012
Port Royale 4	2020

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		ProtectDISC Software 5.9 DRM
GamersGate
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Steam
ZOOM Platform
GamersGate (unavailable)

Essential improvements

Patches

• The latest official patches are available here.

Skip intro videos

Move, rename or delete video files
Go to <path-to-game>\Videos. Move, rename or delete the following files: ascaron.wmv, intro.wmv and nvidia.wmv.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ascaron Entertainment\Port Royale 2\Save
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12470/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ascaron Entertainment\Port Royale 2\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12470/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

External options menu

Graphics settings

Gameplay settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Stretched from 4:3.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		GOG.com's custom DirectDraw wrapper (dxcfg.exe) supports this.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Forced via control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Borderless fullscreen windowed

The game comes with a configuration setting that says "Run in Fullscreen mode", checked by default. While unchecking this option implies windowed mode, the actual result is the following:

• The game runs at full desktop resolution, as if it was Borderless Windowed.
• If it is a widescreen aspect, the game stretches with distortion.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Sound settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sounds, music, atmosphere, video, speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French				Retail, GOG.com and ZOOM Platform only.
German				Retail only.
Japanese				Retail only.
Spanish				Retail only.

Issues fixed

Game does not start

Run PR2.exe in compatibility mode for Windows 98 / Me, with disabled display scaling and as administrator.[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Windows Media Foundation

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98 SE	ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 700 MHz	Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB (98SE, ME) 256 MB (2000, XP)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	700 MB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible