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ObsCure II

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ObsCure II
ObsCure II cover
Developers
Hydravision Entertainment
Publishers
Ignition Entertainment
Playlogic Entertainment
Steam Mighty Rocket Studio
Russia 1C Company
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows September 7, 2007
Reception
Metacritic 59
IGDB 55
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror, TPS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, Horror, North America
Series ObsCure
ObsCure II on HowLongToBeat
ObsCure II on IGDB
ObsCure II on MobyGames
ObsCure II on Wikipedia
ObsCure
ObsCure 2004
ObsCure II 2007

ObsCure II is a singleplayer cinematic camera survival horror and TPS game in the ObsCure series.

The game was released in North America as Obscure: The Aftermath.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
TAGES and Solidshield DRM.
Windows
Steam
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Updated version with full XInput controller support and compatibility fixes.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\o2.ipt[Note 1]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MRS\Obscure2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PLAYLOGIC\Obscure2\Release
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254480/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Playlogic\Obscure2\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254480/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Retail is 4:3 and 5:4 only.[1] Steam version is pillarboxed (except movies).[2]
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Can't be forced.[3]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Can be forced off.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution (It just stretching, not true widescreen) ( no work for steam version )

Edit registry entries[citation needed]
  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PLAYLOGIC\Obscure2\Release.
  2. Edit the entry VideoResolution and change the value to one of from a list below (hexadecimal):
    • 7800438 - 1920x1080
    • F000870 - 3840x2160

Widescreen workaround fix

Fullscreen fix[citation needed]
  1. Create a custom resolution 1920 x 1440 in your GPU control panel.
  2. Change scaling from aspect ratio to full-screen.
  3. Run game, select 1920 x 1440 video resolution and apply.

Windowed

Set with D3D8 Wrapper[citation needed]
  1. Download D3D8 Wrapper.
  2. Extract to <path-to-game>.
  3. Edit d3d8.ini.
  4. Set ForceWindowedMode to 1.
Set with DxWrapper[4]
  1. Download DxWrapper.
  2. Extract from the zip file to <path-to-game>:
    1. d3d9.dll from Stub zip folder.
    2. dxwrapper.dll and dxwrapper.ini from the root zip folder.
  3. Edit dxwrapper.ini:
    1. Set EnableD3d9Wrapper to 1.
    2. Set EnableWindowMode to 1.
Works with the Steam version.

Input

Controller support

In the retail version, XInput controllers have issues using both triggers simultaneously, and with the right stick being unrecognized.
Fix button assignment[citation needed]
  1. Download and run XInput Plus.
  2. Set the Target Program to OBSCURE2.exe.
  3. Go to DirectInput and check Enable DirectInput Output.
  4. Click on Customize and change the following:
    1. Assign Right Stick-X to Slider1
    2. Assign Right Stick-Y to Slider2
    3. Assign Left Trigger to Button11
    4. Assign Right Trigger to Button12
  5. Click Apply, this will install DLL files in the installation folder.

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
French
German
Italian
Polish
Local retail only. For Steam version download this.
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation: download.
Russian
Official localization by SoftClub; local retail only. Download this for the Steam version.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Co-op play with 2 players requires a controller.
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  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>/254480/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (254480) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. View topic - ObsCure 2 Widescreen | WSGF - Setting widescreen resolution via registry results in stretched aspect ratio
  2. 4:3 :: Obscure 2 General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Cant force AA in game via driver, fix please! :: Obscure 2 General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  4. Verified by User:LukasThyWalls on 2022-05-11