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Revision as of 11:40, 22 April 2017

Castles II: Siege and Conquest
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Developers
Quicksilver Software
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
DOS 1992
Mac OS (Classic) April 1994
Windows October 21, 2008[1]
macOS (OS X) 2012
Linux February 14, 2017[2]
Castles II: Siege and Conquest on Wikipedia
Castles
Castles 1991
Castles II: Siege and Conquest 1992

Key points

Using the "Save before quitting" feature may cause gameplay issues when the saves are loaded.[3] It's recommended that you don't use this feature.[4]

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
 Floppies or CD-ROM. Run in DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Bundled with Castles. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[5]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
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Save game data location

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System Location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

300px
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Issues fixed

Save games don't work correctly

Using the save before quitting feature may break saves, causing issues with gameplay when the saves are loaded.[3]
To avoid this issue simply save the game manually, then quit and choose Don't Save when prompted.[4]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 730 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

References