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Prototype 2

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Key Points

Widely criticised as being a very poor PC port.[1]
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.[2]

Very Common Errors Template:Ee No Shadows With ATI Graphics Cards Template:Ee Cannot Complete Operation Flytrap Template:Ee Performance Degrades Over Time.

General Information

Steam Forums
Thread with additional fixes

Windows

System Requirements

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Video Settings

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

Windowed

Template:Star Fix from Steam forum thread by Suicidal.Banana.

Instructions

Custom Resolution And Refresh Rate

Resolution is natively capped at 1920x1080 and 1920x1200.

Template:Star Fix from Steam forum thread by Suicidal.Banana.

Instructions

Input Settings

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Mouse Acceleration

Mouse acceleration is tied to framerate of the game, leading to extremely choppy control in periods of poor performance.[3]
Instructions
Instructions

Issues

Template:Eee Issue - No Shadows With ATI Graphics Cards

Template:Ee 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 fix has been issued yet, either for Prototype or Prototype 2.

  • Prototype on Nvidia graphics card.

  • Prototype on AMD/ATi graphics card.

Template:Eee Issue - Cannot Complete Operation Flytrap

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

Instructions

Template:Eee Issue - Performance Degrades Over Time

Template:Right Also known as a memory leak. Template:Star Thanks to v00d00man and jackbig from Steam forums for this solution.[4][5]

Caused by a problem with a setting on x64 bit Windows. To do with Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Physical Address Extension (PAE).
IF you are having the "memory problem" chances are PAE is not forceenabled./showthread.php?t=2841266</ref>
Instructions

Template:Eee Issue - No Voice Audio During Gameplay

Bug caused by Dolby surround setups.[6]
Instructions

Template:Eee Issue - Glowing Outlines On Characters

Instructions

Template:Eee Issue - 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


References