Disciples II: Dark Prophecy

Not to be confused with The Dark Prophecy.

Disciples
Disciples: Sacred Lands	1999
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy	2002
Disciples II: Guardians of The Light	2003
Disciples II: Servants of The Dark	2003
Disciples II: Rise of The Elves	2003
Disciples III: Renaissance	2009
Disciples III: Resurrection	2010
Disciples III: Reincarnation	2012
Disciples: Liberation	2021

Disciples II: Dark Prophecy is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RPG and TBS game in the Disciples series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 2 DRM
Epic Games Store		Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available.
GamersGate		Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available.
		Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available.
GOG.com		Gold edition While Gallean's Return installers are tagged as 2.01, they actually include the 2.02 patch.^[1] However, while Rise of the Elves is marked as 3.01, the in-game menu reports 3.0 (as it is partially patched^[2]) and is missing the Rise of the Elves Gold content.
Green Man Gaming		Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available.
Steam		Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available (missing the 3.01 patch).
ZOOM Platform		Gold edition; all content is contained in the same installer. Currently the only distribution to contain both the full 3.01 patch and the Rise of the Elves Gold content.
GamersGate (unavailable)		Disciples II: Dark Prophecy

A free demo version of Dark Prophecy is available from Archive.org.

Version differences

The Gold edition contains the base game (Dark Prophecy) and all three expansions (Guardians of The Light, Servants of The Dark and Rise of The Elves) plus five new bonus quests.

Gallean's Return is a compilation of the base game and two expansions (Guardians of the Light and Servants of the Dark).

Rise of the Elves Gold is a compilation of the base game, Rise of the Elves and an additional 4-mission campaign unique to that version, released months after the retail version of Gold. An upgrade was released by the developers^[3].

GOG.com users may need to use a tool like UniExtract to unpack the files from the Gold upgrade installer, as it will not recognize the installation. This will also result in the main menu properly reporting the game version as 3.01.

Map editors for Steam versions provide as separate AppID - 1645 and 1635, with same depots

Monetization

Type	Notes
Expansion pack	The expansion packs are standalone. They include new races, maps, campaigns, and units.
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Guardians of the Light	Standalone.
Servants of the Dark	Standalone.
Rise of the Elves	Standalone.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for Dark Prophecy is 1.41, available from Patches-Scrolls.

The latest official patch for Guardians of the Light / Servants of the Dark is 2.02, available from Patches-Scrolls.

The latest official patch for Rise of the Elves is 3.01, available from Patches-Scrolls.

GL Wrapper by Verok

Changes the graphics renderer of the original version, fixes performance on newer systems.

ModDB mirror (v1.90)

Archive link (v1.87)

Game data

Configuration file location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Disciple.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1640/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SaveGame^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1640/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Settings available from config editor

Settings from in-game

Ultra Widescreen by Verok's GL wrapper & patch

Ultra-Widescreen by Verok's GL wrapper & patch

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 are officially supported. More resolutions available with GL Wrapper by Verok
Multi-monitor		Although it can appear on a non-primary display, it does not capture the mouse.
Ultra-widescreen		Possible with GL Wrapper by Verok
4K Ultra HD		Possible with GL Wrapper by Verok
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Requires 16-bit color depth in game software mode. 32-bit color in D3D mode or when using GL Wrapper by Verok
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Camera scroll speed only.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound effects, music, unit acknowledgements, isometric audio environment
Surround sound
Subtitles		Text-only speech in cutscenes.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese				Retail only.
French				Retail only.
German				Retail only.
Italian				Retail only.
Polish				Retail and GOG.com only; download for Gallean's Return and Rise of the Elves.
Russian				Retail only; download for Gallean's Return and Rise of the Elves.
Spanish				Retail only; download for Gallean's Return and Rise of the Elves.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	4	Hot seat, Versus
LAN play	4	Versus
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP	34000

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			A Linux port was also planned, but cancelled.^[4]

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 233 MHz	Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.2 GB	1.4 GB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.1 compatible	16 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1640/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1640) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Verified by User:Plok on 2022-12-21
↑ Does the GOG version of Disciples 2 contain Rise of the Elves Gold?, page 3 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on 2022-12-22
↑ [missing title] - last accessed on 2022-12-22
↑ Phoronix - List of commercial Linux PPC, Sparc and Alpha games - last accessed on 2019-11-24

[gamedir-4] 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).

[Proton_path_note-5] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1640/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1640) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Verified by User:Plok on 2022-12-21

[2] Does the GOG version of Disciples 2 contain Rise of the Elves Gold?, page 3 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on 2022-12-22

[3] [missing title] - last accessed on 2022-12-22

[6] Phoronix - List of commercial Linux PPC, Sparc and Alpha games - last accessed on 2019-11-24

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Developers

	Strategy First
Release dates
Windows	January 24, 2002
Reception
Metacritic	84
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RPG, TBS
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Disciples