Duke Nukem II

Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem	1991
Duke Nukem II	1993
Duke Nukem 3D	1996
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project	2002
Duke Nukem Forever	2011
Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition	2013
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour	2016

General information

Official 3D Realms forum for game series

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Sold separately or on the Duke Nukem 3D disc. Use DOSBox.
GOG.com (unavailable)
Steam (unavailable)

This game is no longer sold digitally.^[5]

A shareware episode is available.

Essential improvements[edit]

Run in DOSBox (retail)[edit]

Set cycles=20000. Max cycles causes joystick control problems.^[6]

Level editor[edit]

A Level Editor is available. It requires XP or later.

Source ports[edit]

Reverse engineered source port is available.

RigelEngine

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\NUKEM2.-GT
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/240180/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\NUKEM2.-S*
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/240180/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Saves are NUKEM2.-S* 1-8. NUKEM2.-SB and NUKEM2.-ST are temporary saves.^[7]

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video[edit]

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set in Graphic Mode Setup (GOG.com) or toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter`.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Game runs at 16 frames per second.

Input[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		No mouse support.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only; toggle sound with `S` and music with `M`.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
macOS (OS X)

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	11 MB

These are the system requirements for the Steam version.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM)	1 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	11 MB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM