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{{--}} Widely criticised as being a very poor PC port with a very large number of issues.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ5l4L_3RxY</ref><ref>http://www.pcgamer.com/review/prototype-2-review/</ref>
 
{{--}} Widely criticised as being a very poor PC port with a very large number of issues.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ5l4L_3RxY</ref><ref>http://www.pcgamer.com/review/prototype-2-review/</ref>
 
{{--}} Poor sales of the game on console platforms has resulted in Radical Entertaintment being essentially shut down. The long-term effects of this on support for the PC port remains to be seen.<ref>http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/6/28/3124092/prototype-developers-radical-entertainment-rumored-to-be-shutting-down</ref>
 
{{--}} Poor sales of the game on console platforms has resulted in Radical Entertaintment being essentially shut down. The long-term effects of this on support for the PC port remains to be seen.<ref>http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/6/28/3124092/prototype-developers-radical-entertainment-rumored-to-be-shutting-down</ref>
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Revision as of 00:01, 29 December 2012

Template:Infobox Prototype (series)

Key points

Widely criticised as being a very poor PC port with a very large number of issues.[1][2]
Poor sales of the game on console platforms has resulted in Radical Entertaintment being essentially shut down. The long-term effects of this on support for the PC port remains to be seen.[3]
A controller is highly recommended.

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Steam Forum - for Prototype series.
Steam Forum thread with additional fixes - maintained by Suicidal.banana.

Availability

Template:Availability Table

Prototype 2 is a Steamworks title.[4]

Game data

Save game location

Template:Game Location Table

Video settings

Template:Video Settings

An in-depth look at the Prototype 2 settings is available on this Gamespy Port Authority article.

Windowed

Instructions

Custom resolution and refresh rate

Resolution is natively capped at 1920x1080 and 1920x1200.
Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input Settings

Mouse acceleration

Mouse acceleration is tied to framerate of the game, leading to extremely choppy control in periods of poor performance.[5]
Instructions
Instructions

System requirements

Template:System Requirements

Issues unresolved

No shadows with AMD/ATI graphics cards

Prototype 2 has a similar bug as with Prototype, where shadows are not rendered properly on AMD ATI Radeon cards.
This can lead to a very poor graphical quality.
No official or unofficial fix has been issued for Prototype or Prototype 2.

Template:Star Screenshots from aaronmoi.[6]

  • Prototype on Nvidia graphics card.

  • Prototype on AMD/ATI graphics card.

Cannot complete Operation Flytrap

Template:Right On some PC configurations it's impossible to complete the mission Operation Flytrap.

Instructions

Performance degrades over time

Memory leak caused by a setting on x64 bit Windows to do with Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Physical Address Extension (PAE).
Instructions
Instructions

Issues resolved

No voice audio during gameplay

Bug caused by Dolby surround setups.[7]
Instructions

Glowing outlines on characters

Instructions

USB devices crash game

Some keyboards (and likely other input devices) may cause Prototype 2 to crash while attempting to load the game (brief black screen, follow by a crash-to-desktop).
Devices with additional USB ports for connecting peripherals may be responsible for the problem.
Instructions
Instructions

Waypoints don't trigger and can't use airbridge

Seems to be sporadically caused by crashing in the middle of a mission
Instructions


References