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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown cover
Developers
Eurocom
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Engines
EngineX
Release dates
Windows March 14, 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform
Themes Prehistoric
Series Ice Age
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown guide on StrategyWiki
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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown on Wikipedia
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Key points

Port of the superior PlayStation 2/Xbox versions.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM v7 DRM 2 CD's
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Ice Age 2\Ice Age 2.Ini

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Ice Age 2\

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
30 FPS lock by default. Can set to any FPS with CheatEngine (Address: IceAge2Pc.exe+4294B0)[1]
120+ FPS
Running over 120 FPS causes sporadic half-second spikes down to 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Stereo only. Unlike Dolby Pro logic II on PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Wii; and Dolby Digital 5.1 on Xbox.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Local retail only.
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

White screen at launch

Use compatibility mode
  1. Go to the game directory.
  2. Right-click "iceage2pc.exe".
  3. Go to "Compatibility".
  4. Check "Disable fullscreen optimizations".

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce4 Ti
ATI Radeon 7000
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM drive


References

  1. 60 FPS hack - last accessed on 2020-06-15