Red Faction II

Red Faction II

Developers
	Volition
Windows	Outrage Games
Publishers
	THQ
	Nordic Games
Engines
	Geo-Mod 1.0
Release dates
Windows	April 9, 2003

Red Faction

Red Faction	2001
Red Faction II	2003
Red Faction: Guerrilla	2009
Red Faction: Armageddon	2011

Key points

PC version doesn't include multiplayer.

General information

Red Faction Wiki - A wiki for the Red Faction universe

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		DRM: Disc check, which detects removal after launch.
GamersGate
GOG.com
Humble Store		Sold together with other games from series.
Steam

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed] Go to <path-to-game>\pc_media\Movies Delete or rename outrage-logo.bik, thq-v.bik and volition-logo.bik

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\rf2_config.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\profiles\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Launcher general video settings.

Launcher advanced video settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Use Widescreen fixer.
Multi-monitor			Use Widescreen fixer.
Ultra-widescreen			Use Widescreen fixer.
Field of view (FOV)		Use Widescreen fixer.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Can be forced through the NVIDIA Control Panel/AMD Control Center.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Set via launcher.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Color blind mode

Input settings

In-game general control settings.

In-game advanced control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		If enabled, hints display controller buttons if you use the keyboard/mouse.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Actions can not be bound to triggers on X360 controller.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback

Audio settings

In-game audio/video settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects, music, voice
Surround sound
Subtitles		Subtitles exist in-game, but are never displayed.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Full pause on focus lost.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English

Issues fixed

"Please insert the Red Faction II disc 1 into your CD-Rom drive"

Empty your disc drives If you have no optical drive at all, create an empty virtual CD drive.

Game uses the wrong monitor

The game may pick the wrong monitor on a multi-monitor setup when a multi-monitor resolution is not used in-game.

Change Adapter_number in rf2_config.ini Go to the installation folder. Open rf2_config.ini. Set Adapter_number to 0. The game should now start on the correct monitor. Try different values if problems persist.

"At least 8MB of available video memory is required to run"

If running Red Faction II on a 64-bit system with more than 2GB of RAM, the game may crash during launch.

NebulaMods Autopatcher Download NebulaMods RF2 Steam Autopatcher. Run the AutoPatcher, setting target file to <path-to-game>\rf2.exe. Start the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1
Shader Model support	1.4
64-bit executable

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	98SE, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz AMD Athlon 500 MHz	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.1 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia RIVA TNT1 ATI Rage 128 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	Nvidia GeForce ATI Radeon 7000 Matrox Parhelia 32 MB of VRAM