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Patrician II: Quest for Power

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Patrician II: Quest for Power
Patrician II: Quest for Power cover
Developers
Ascaron Entertainment
Publishers
Europe Infogrames
North America Strategy First
Russia 1C Company
GOG.com Kalypso Media Digital
Release dates
Windows November 24, 2000
Reception
Metacritic 76
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Business, Strategy
Vehicles Naval/watercraft
Themes Europe
Series Patrician
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Patrician II: Quest for Power on IGDB
Patrician II: Quest for Power on MobyGames
Patrician II: Quest for Power on Wikipedia
Patrician
The Patrician 1992
Patrician II: Quest for Power 2000
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse 2003
Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade 2010

Patrician II: Quest for Power is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric business and strategy game in the Patrician 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)
German release: ProtectDISC Software DRM for base game, SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1] for expansion.
Internationally: SecuROM DRM
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with The Patrician. Uses GOG's custom DirectDraw wrapper.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
A free demo version is available from Archive.org

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Aufschwung der Hanse German language only. Bundled in the Gold Edition, which is sold internationally as Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

  • The latest official patch for the original German release is 1.30: link
  • The latest official patch for the German-only expansion is 1.1: Expansion | Gold Edition
  • The latest official patch for international versions is 1.1: US English | Dutch

Skip intro video

Delete/rename video files
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Delete or rename Intro.bik, Trailer.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\P2.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Options menu
Options menu

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only supports 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024. Menu is hardcoded to 800x600.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
GOG's custom wrapper includes support for this.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
GOG's custom wrapper includes support for this.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

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 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
German
Retail only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
Hot seat
LAN play
Online play
The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 370 MB
Video card (GPU) 800x600 resolution
4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM drive


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