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SpellForce 2: Demons of the Past

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SpellForce 2: Demons of the Past
SpellForce 2: Demons of the Past cover
Developers
Nordic Games
Mind Over Matter Studios
Publishers
2012-2016 Nordic Games
2016-present THQ Nordic
Release dates
Windows January 16, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 54
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RPG, RTS
Themes Fantasy
Series SpellForce
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SpellForce 2: Demons of the Past on IGDB
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SpellForce 2: Demons of the Past is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RPG and RTS game in the SpellForce series.

General information

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

Availability

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Move, delete or rename file[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\base\video.
  2. Move, delete or rename pub_logo.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\SpellForce2\config_dotp.xml
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/245050/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\SpellForce2\save
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/245050/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings

Windowed

Change fullscreen value to 0 in config_todp.xml[citation needed]
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\SpellForce2
  2. Edit config_todp.xml.
  3. Change fullscreen="1"= to fullscreen="0" and save the changes.
  4. Set config_todp.xml to read-only to prevent the game overwriting the changes.

Input

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

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, effect, voice and message
Surround sound
Subtitles
No option for turning on or off, ingame cutscenes features subtitles.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

VR support

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

Issues fixed

The game won't launch (runtime error)

Delete Spellforce 2 folder inside %USERPROFILE%\Documents[1]

Opening cinematic has no sound

Restart the campaign[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800
ATI Radeon HD 3870
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/245050/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (245050) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References