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Rayman 2: The Great Escape

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Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Rayman 2: The Great Escape cover
Developers
Ubi Soft Montpellier
Publishers
Ubi Soft
Engines
Ubisoft OpenSpace
Release dates
Windows October 29, 1999
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Rayman 2: The Great Escape on Wikipedia
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Key points

Cannot use Alt+Tab ↹ while in-game. See Windowed.
Bonus stages may be impossible to complete at 60 FPS.
Uses a fixed button mapping with no ability to change it.

General information

Rayman Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Rayman 3-pack version, also includes Rayman and Rayman M
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 10th Anniversary, also includes Rayman M and Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Comes pre-configured with nGlide.
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\Options[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15060/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\SaveGame[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15060/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen resolutions[1][2]
  1. Download and extract the Rayman 2 Widescreen Patch pack.
  2. Navigate the folders for your game version and desired aspect ratio.
  3. Place the file into <path-to-game>, replacing the old file.
  4. Make sure your resolution settings are set to fit the screen (set in nglide_config.exe).
  5. For resolutions greater than 2048 pixels, use dgVoodoo 2.

Notes

Some elements may still get stretched (HUD, loading screens).
Objects at screen edges will disappear with Hor+ aspect ratio.

Windowed

Force windowed[citation needed]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set the name and executable path.
  4. Set Do not notify on task switch.
  5. Set the window position and size.
  6. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  7. Click on Input tab, set Hook dinput.
  8. Click on DirectX tab, set DirectX9.
  9. Click OK, then File and Save.
  10. Run the game from DxWnd.

Input settings

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Slovak
Use unofficial slovak language file (Windows)
Spanish

Issues unresolved

(retail) "Please insert CD" message with pirate head image

At the end of The Echoing Caves an anti-piracy message will appear and stop progress, even when using a legitimate copy of the game.[3]
This has been fixed in the GOG release. You can copy your save file to that version and continue playing.

Issues fixed

Blurry and distorted graphics

Use nGlide[citation needed]
  1. Download and install nGlide.
  2. Run nGlide Configurator from the start menu.
  3. Select your screen resolution. Change Aspect ratio to Fit to Screen if you want to play in widescreen, and click Apply.
  4. Run <path-to-game>\GXSetup.exe (causes screen to momentarily flicker).
  5. Change Renderer to Glide2 (1.0.0) Voodoo Graphics Glide 2 Driver and click OK.
  6. Run Rayman2.exe as an admin (causes screen to momentarily flicker).
Use dgVoodoo2[citation needed]
  1. Download and extract the latest version of dgVoodoo2.
  2. Copy the contents of MS as well as dgVoodooSetup.exe into <path-to-game>.
  3. Run dgVoodooSetup.exe.
  4. Click the ./ button at the top of the window.
  5. Click the DirectX tab and select your desired resolution.
  6. Disable the dgVoodoo Watermark option.
  7. Click Apply and close the window.
  8. Run <path-to-game>\GXSetup.exe (causes screen to momentarily flicker).
  9. Change Renderer to DirectX6 (1.0.0) DirectX 6 Driver.
  10. Select your resolution and click OK.
  11. Run Rayman2.exe as an admin.

Notes

Causes frame rate to jump between 30 and 60 FPS.
White lines may appear on the edge of the screen when forcing MSAA.

Crash to desktop on Windows 8.1 (GOG.com)

Install the game outside of the default folder[4][citation needed]

Screen flickering on startup

Run game in a window[citation needed]

See Windowed.

Game breaks after task switching

Update nGlide version[citation needed]
  1. Download the latest version of nGlide.
  2. Open the nGlide setup with 7-Zip.
  3. Extract the contents to the installation folder and overwrite the original files.
Run game in a window[citation needed]

See Windowed.

Low frame rate on Windows 8 (Retail)

Use nGlide[citation needed]
  1. Download and install nGlide.
  2. Run <path-to-game>\GXSetup.exe.
  3. Set Renderer to Glide2.
Use DDRAW FPS Fix[citation needed]
  1. Download DDRAW FPS Fix.
  2. Extract the appropriate ddraw.dll to the installation folder.
Run game in a window[citation needed]

See Windowed.

Impossible to complete bonus stages

Alternating ← and → never fills the bar more than around 60%.[5]
Limit frame rate to 30 FPS[citation needed]

See Frame rate capping.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 6
Glide
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 133 MHz Intel Pentium with MMX 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 3Dfx Voodoo
DirectX 6.1 compatible 		3Dfx Voodoo2
16 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References