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Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II
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Developers
LucasArts
Engines
Sith
Release dates
Windows September 30, 1997
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II on Wikipedia
Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars: Dark Forces 1995
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II 1997
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith 1998
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast 2002
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy 2003
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster 2024

Key points

Can run on low end hardware
Installer is 16-bit only, but a workaround is available. See Alternate installer
Is not compatible with AMD GPUs using Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7 or newer

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums
Wookieepedia - A huge wiki dedicated to the Star Wars universe
JKDF2.NET - A fan site for the game

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Disk check can be skipped with this
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GamersGate
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Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Star Wars: Jedi Knight – Mysteries of the Sith.
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Steam
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Music is not included. Run with -windowGUI switch by default[1]
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DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Mysteries of the Sith Retail requires base game; digital distribution version is a standalone title.
Windows

Version differences

The GOG.com version has been patched for compatibility and includes working music.[2]

Essential improvements

In-game gameplay settings.

Alternate installer

Allows the game to be installed on 64-bit systems.

Patches

Unofficial Jedi Knight patch

Adds team chat to multiplayer and is required for many mods. Comes with official patch

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32380/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32380/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game advanced video settings (only accessible via the -displayconfig command line argument).

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Input settings

In-game general control settings.
In-game keyboard settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game joystick settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32
Online play
32

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 2300-2400, 47624-47625
UDP 2300-2400, 47624-47625
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

3D Acceleration problems

Running the game with 3D acceleration turned on may cause crashes or graphics problems on some modern machines. If you experience problems, try the following steps (you may have to do this every time you launch the game):

Instructions
Instructions
Instructions

Unable to set video mode

Instructions

Game runs in a window even when game is set to fullscreen (Steam)

Instructions

Black screen during menu

If you get a black screen instead of the menu, Alt+Tab away from the game and back. Alternatively, run the game with the -windowgui command line parameter.

Resolution issues

Running the game in a widescreen resolution is not recommended. The horizontal FOV is locked to a 4:3 aspect ratio, so running the game in widescreen will make everything look stretched horizontally.

The game's HUD and on-screen messages do not scale based on resolution; running the game at high resolutions may make them too small to see.

Changing the resolution in mid-mission is not recommended.

HUD does not appear, or screen has black border

Press - and = to adjust the screen size. Ideally it should be 9.

Miscellaneous fixes

On Windows Vista and 7, try setting JK.exe to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode, with visual themes and desktop composition disabled.

If you are using an nVidia graphics card and the game crashes, try disabling Antialiasing, Texture Antialiasing, and Conformant Texture Clamp for JK.exe in your graphics card settings.

Missing music (Steam)

Instructions
Instructions

Wrong or missing music (with CD)

Instructions

Music does not loop

This is a known issue on some Windows Vista and 7 machines

Instructions

Other information

Access advanced display settings menu

Instructions

Texture/model enhancement

Jedi Knight Enhanced

Jedi Knight Enhanced is a model enhancement pack for Jedi Knight. It requires the unofficial patch to be installed; an older version of the patch is included in the download.

To install it, do the following:

Instructions

Jedi Knight Retexture Pack

Jedi Knight Retexture Pack is a texture enhancement pack for Jedi Knight, which can be used alone or in conjunction with Jedi Knight Enhanced. It requires the unofficial patch to be installed.

To install it, download jkr.zip version 0.4 from JKHub. If you are using Jedi Knight Enhanced, extract JKR.gob into the JKE folder in your Jedi Knight install folder. Otherwise, extract it into the Resource folder in your Jedi Knight install folder.

Mods and Steam version

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Pentium 90
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5.2 compatible

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>/32380/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (32380) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References