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Prototype 2

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Prototype 2
Prototype 2 cover
Developers
Radical Entertainment
Publishers
Activision
Engines
Titanium
Release dates
Windows July 24, 2012
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Prototype 2 on Wikipedia
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Prototype
Prototype 2009
Prototype 2 2012

Key points

Widely criticised as being a very poor PC port with a very large number of issues.[1][2]
Game has been abandoned; no patches have been released.
A controller is highly recommended.

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series
Steam Forum thread with additional fixes - maintained by Suicidal.banana.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Amazon.com
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Steam
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All versions require Steam.[3]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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An in-depth look at the Prototype 2 settings is available on this GameSpy Port Authority article.

Widescreen resolution

Resolution is natively capped at 1920x1080 and 1920x1200.
Instructions

Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

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Mouse acceleration

Mouse acceleration is tied to frame rate of the game, leading to extremely choppy control in periods of poor performance.[4]
Instructions
Instructions

Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

No shadows with AMD/ATI graphics cards

Prototype 2 has a similar bug as with Prototype, where shadows are not rendered properly on AMD ATI Radeon cards.[5]
This can lead to a very poor graphical quality.
There is no known fix for Prototype or Prototype 2.

  • Prototype on Nvidia graphics card.

  • Prototype on AMD/ATI graphics card.

Cannot complete Operation Flytrap

On some PC configurations it's impossible to complete the mission Operation Flytrap.
Instructions

Performance degrades over time

Prototype 2 has memory leak issues. The steps below help alleviate this.
Instructions
Instructions

Issues fixed

No voice audio during gameplay

Bug caused by Dolby surround setups.[6]
Instructions

Glowing outlines on characters

Instructions

USB devices crash game

Some keyboards (and likely other input devices) may cause Prototype 2 to crash while attempting to load the game (brief black screen, follow by a crash-to-desktop).
Devices with additional USB ports for connecting peripherals may be responsible for the problem.
Instructions
Instructions

Waypoints don't trigger and can't use airbridge

Seems to be sporadically caused by crashing in the middle of a mission
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz, AMD Phenom X3 8750 Intel Core 2 Quad 2.7 GHz or better, AMD Phenom II X4 3 GHz or better
System memory (RAM) 2 GB 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4850
512 MB of VRAM 		NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
ATI Radeon HD 5850
1 GB of VRAM

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>/115320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (115320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References