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Latest revision as of 05:37, 14 April 2024
Developers | |
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Paradox Development Studio | |
macOS (OS X) | Virtual Programming |
Publishers | |
Paradox Interactive | |
Engines | |
Clausewitz | |
Release dates | |
Windows | August 13, 2010 |
macOS (OS X) | September 17, 2010 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, DLC |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Top-down view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Strategy, Simulation |
Themes | Victorian, Historical |
Series | Victoria |
Victoria | |
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Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun | 2003 |
Victoria II | 2010 |
Victoria 3 | 2022 |
Victoria II is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view strategy and simulation game in the Victoria series.
Some bug fixes, improvements and overhauls are only available to owners of the expansions. See Essential Improvements for details.
General information
- Paradox Interactive Forums
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | English and German releases | |||
Retail | Russian release | |||
Amazon.com | Steam and Amazon versions, as well as retail are all available. Select which one you want from the box | |||
GOG.com | Civil War Edition. Multiplayer is unavailable. | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | ||||
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable) | [1] | |||
Mac App Store (unavailable) |
Version differences
- The Civil War Edition includes the base game and A House Divided DLC.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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A House Divided | ||
Heart of Darkness | ||
German Unit Pack | ||
Interwar Artillery Sprite Pack | ||
Interwar Cavalry Unit Pack | ||
Interwar Engineer Unit Pack | ||
Interwar Planes Spritepack | ||
Interwar Spritepack | ||
Songs of the Civil War |
Essential improvements
- The expansions add some extremely important features and quality-of-life changes, such as being able to manufacture war justifications against other states, managing rebellious movements, the ability to actually see the player's infamy score and a colonisation mechanic among other needed changes.[2]
Skip intro videos
Move, delete or rename movies folder[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 2\ |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42960/pfx/[Note 1] |
- Some configuration files are stored in
<path-to-game>\save games
- Mod configuration files are stored in
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 2
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\save games[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42960/pfx/[Note 1] |
- Mod saves are stored in
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 2
>
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Can on occasion crash after an alt-tab. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See Anisotropic filtering (AF). | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Controlled by multisample level. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Enable anisotropic filtering[citation needed] |
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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 | Not applicable; entire game is driven with your mouse cursor. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Global/SFX/Music | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | No voiced audio. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Fan translation. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play | 32 |
Issues fixed
Crashing on Windows 8/XP: map cache
- This crash is caused by map cache data from an old version downloading with the game on Steam.
Delete and regenerate map cache folders[citation needed] |
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Crashing on Windows XP: Incompatible lua5.1.dll & lua51.dll files
This crash is caused by the included LUA scripting DLLs being incompatible with Windows XP, which prevent the game from starting.
Replace files[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
Modifications
- Active modding community found in the official forums or ModDB.
- Some brief descriptions of mods can be found on the official wiki.
- Most mods require both expansions and the beta 3.04 branch to be set for the Steam version
Historical Project Mod (HPM)
- Requires Heart of Darkness DLC and beta 3.04
- Adds significant historical flavor and features to the game, particularly through events and decisions
- The Github wiki contains numerous minimods and addons
Install HPM |
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Historical Flavour Mod (HFM)
- Fork of an older HPM version, adds a significant amount of nations & decisions but is considered more limiting in freedom as the events can railroad the player in historical scenarios
Install HFM |
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Cold War Enhancement Mod (CWE)
- Two new starting dates,1946 & 1992. Countless new events, nations, decisions and mechanics
- Based on New World Order (NWO)
Install CWE |
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Open-V2
- Open source re-implementation of the engine
- Under development
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | XP SP3, Vista, 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz AMD 3500+ |
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System memory (RAM) | 2 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 8800 ATI Radeon X1900 or above |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (42960) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Microsoft Games for Windows Marketplace - last accessed on 20 August 2022
- ↑ More info on the official wiki - last accessed on May 2023