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Hexen II

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Hexen II
Hexen II cover
Developers
Raven Software
Publishers
id Software
Mac OS MacPlay
Engines
Quake engine
Release dates
Windows August 31, 1997
Mac OS (Classic) January 1, 2002
Hexen II guide on StrategyWiki
Hexen II on Wikipedia
Heretic
Heretic 1994
Hexen: Beyond Heretic 1995
Hexen II 1997
Heretic II 1998

Key points

Engine is open source with modern multi-platform ports available; see Recommended engines
Original installer may not work on modern systems; see Play the game on modern systems.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Steam
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Base game only. The Portal of Praevus expansion is unavailable for download.
Windows

Version differences

Hexen II: Continent of Blackmarsh is an extremely rare demo version of the game that was bundled with Matrox M3D series video cards. It includes the entire first chapter of the game.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Mission Pack: Portal of Praevus
Windows

Essential improvements

Recommended engines

Hammer of Thyrion

Hammer of Thyrion is a source port based on the source code release of the HeXen II engine. Many new improvements and features include OpenGL and Widescreen support.

Play the game on modern systems

Hexen II was originally made for Windows 95, but it is difficult to get the game working on modern systems.[1]
Play Hexen II with the Hammer of Thyrion source port[1]
  1. Download Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion .
  2. Copy the content of the archive to a folder of choice.
  3. Copy the Hexen II game files pak0.pak and pak1.pak into the data1 folder.
    • If you have the original CD, the game files are in CD:\INSTALL\HEXEN2\data1\.
    • If you have an installed game, the game files are in <path-to-game>\data1\.
  4. Update the game files to version 1.11 if necessary by running h2patch.exe in the Hammer of Thyrion folder.
  5. Start the game by running glh2.exe.
Play Portal of Praevus with the Hammer of Thyrion source port[1]
  1. Install Hexen II and Hammer of Thyrion files as described above.
  2. Copy the pak3.pak file from the CD:\Install\Data\portals\ folder of the original installation CD, into the portals folder of your Hammer of Thyrion installation folder.
  3. Create a shortcut to the glh2.exe file.
  4. Add the -portals command line argument to the shortcut and start the game.
  5. To play Portal of Praevus, choose New game.
  6. To play the original Hexen II game, choose Old game.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data1\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9060/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data1\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9060/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game screen resolution settings.
In-game screen resolution settings.

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Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Follow this guide.
LAN play
16 Co-op, Versus
Online play
16 Co-op, Versus

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 26900
UDP 26900
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
This is the default port used. It can be changed in-game by the user

Issues fixed

Problems on modern systems

As the included opengl32.dll is a 3dfx-specific MiniGL wrapper, it should be deleted on systems not using 3dfx cards.

OpenGL extension string issue

This is one of the few games that have problems with long OpenGL extension strings. Regarding Nvidia, older drivers had the option to toggle extension string limit, but current drivers omit this option and instead have all problematic games hardcoded to limit the string. Therefore, the game should start up fine with up-to-date drivers. This can be verified and altered via Nvidia Inspector.

Rainbow color issue (SW rendered h2.exe only)

XP SP3 compatibility mode fixes this issue.

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 120 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 3a compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/9060/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (9060) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References