Heavy Gear II

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Heavy Gear II

Developers
	Activision
Linux	Loki Software
Publishers
	Activision
Engines
	Dark Side
Release dates
Windows	May 1999
Linux	April 5, 2000

Heavy Gear

Heavy Gear	1997
Heavy Gear II	1999
Heavy Gear Assault	TBA

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game manual available here

Essential improvements

Patches

Linux patches can be found here

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Linux

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Save game data location

System	Location
Windows
Linux

Video settings

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		Interactive Around-Sound 2.0

Issues fixed

A list with many problems and relative workaround can be found here

Everything renders inside out

Apply the Heavy Gear II culling fix

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Pentium
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)	Pentium
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM OpenGL 1.0 compatible
Sound (audio device)	OSS-compatible sound card