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Imperium Galactica II: Alliances

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Imperium Galactica II: Alliances
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Developers
Digital Reality
Publishers
Original retail GT Interactive
Later retail Infogrames
Digital THQ Nordic
Release dates
Windows April 19, 2000
macOS (OS X) January 19, 2017
Linux January 19, 2017
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy, 4X
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Imperium Galactica
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Imperium Galactica II: Alliances is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view strategy and 4X game in the Imperium Galactica series.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
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macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

The fan patch creates a Windows NT-compatible executable file called ig2nt.exe. This should be the target of any shortcuts.

Running on modern systems

This game runs well with dgVoodoo 2 in 1080p resolution with anti-aliasing. You must set these in dgVoodoo and leave the game's resolution on 1024x768. This method avoids the black video bug.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
8 The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

Issues unresolved

Blank cutscenes

  • Many cinematics in the campaigns play only the sound (most notably the introductions).

Issues fixed

Game crashes on non-4:3 resolutions

The game will crash on certain screens (fleet info, design, scenario select, etc.) if the display aspect ratio isn't 4:3 in the ig2.ini file.
Modify ig2.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open ig2.ini.
  3. Find the line containing Video mode and modify it so a 4:3 resolution is specified. Example:
    Video mode = 1024x768x32
  4. Save and close the file.

Notes

Perform this step again whenever setup.exe is run.

Stutter on multi-core systems

Modify the game's shortcut target[citation needed]
  1. Right-click on the game shortcut.
  2. From the pop-up menu which appears, select Properties.
  3. Change the value of Target: to %WINDIR%\System32\cmd.exe /C START "Imperium Galactica 2" /normal /affinity 1 "<path-to-game>\ig2nt.exe"
  4. Click the OK button.

Notes

This fix assumes the patches are installed.
The new value for Target: assigns the game the first logical core, core 0. To use another processor, change /affinity 1 to another value, such as /affinity 2 to use the second logical core, core 1.

Game hangs on loading campaign

The game sometimes hangs if it needs to change disks to load a specific campaign.
Insert the correct game disc before selecting a campaign[citation needed]

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) D3D compatible graphics card


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).

References