Risen 2: Dark Waters

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Risen 2: Dark Waters
Risen 2 Dark Waters cover.jpg
Developers
Publishers
Release dates
Windows
April 27, 2012
Risen 2: Dark Waters at Steam Charts
Risen 2: Dark Waters at SteamDB
 Risen 2: Dark Waters at Wikipedia
Risen
Risen 2009
Risen 2: Dark Waters 2012
Air Temple
A Pirate's Clothes
Treasure Isle
Risen 3: Titan Lords 2014
Adventure Garb
Fog Island
Uprising of the Little Guys

General information

More information Deep Silver Official Forum
More information World of Risen
More information GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
More information GOG.com Support Page
More information Steam Community Discussions
More information Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Retail Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg Requires Steam.
GOG.com DRM-free Choice of Standard or Gold Edition.
Origin Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Information All versions except GOG.com require Steam.

Version differences[edit]

Information The Gold Edition is a complete edition with all DLC.

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Information DLC is sold individually for Steam; for GOG.com the DLC is a combined package (Gold Edition Upgrade).
Name Notes
Air Temple Windows
A Pirate's Clothes Windows
Treasure Isle Windows

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Fix Delete/rename video files

  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Go into data\extern\videos
  3. Delete or rename logo_ds.vid, logo_pb.vid and logo_ubi.vid.

Utilities[edit]

  • Risen 2 Tune - small utility to manage general game options, like: disabling/enabling AutoSave, Static Camera, SloMo, Tutorial System, Changing resolution, etc.

Game data[edit]

Configuration files location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Risen2\Config\
Information ConfigUser.xml contains settings and achievements.
Information Action_Map_User_1.xam contains primary key bindings.
Information Action_Map_User_2.xam contains secondary key bindings.

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Risen2\SaveGames\
Information Windows XP save games are stored in %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Risen2\SaveGames\

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

Video settings.
Graphics settings.
Graphics option Option Notes
Widescreen resolution Native For custom/unlisted resolutions see Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor Hackable Use Flawless Widescreen or see Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV) Impossible
Windowed Hackable See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Unknown
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Native
Anti-aliasing (AA) Native
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
High frame rate Native No frame rate or refresh rate cap.[1]

Widescreen resolution[edit]

Fix Edit ConfigUser.xml

  1. Edit the file %LOCALAPPDATA%\Risen2\Config\ConfigUser.xml, in section <Window> as follows:
    2. <Window
Top="0"
Right="5040"
RefreshRate="60"
Left="0"
Bottom="1050"
AdapterNumber="0"
>
  2. Add the line "AdapterNumber="0" if not present.
  3. Edit the file <path-to-game>\data\ini\ConfigDefault.xml; in section <GUI> as follows:
    4. <Aspect48x10
VirtalWidth="1728"
VirtalHeight="1080"
EnableDrawScale="True"
>
  4. Change VirtalWidth and VirtalHeight to match your current resolution

Windowed[edit]

Fix Edit ConfigUser.xml

  1. Edit %LOCALAPPDATA%\Risen2\Config\ConfigUser.xml
  2. Change FullScreen to "false"
  3. Save your changes and close the file.

Input settings[edit]

Input settings.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native Supports two bindings per function.
Mouse acceleration Impossible
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native
Controller
Controller support Native XInput controllers only. Disabled by default.
Full controller support Impossible
Controller remapping Impossible
Controller Y-axis inversion Native

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native Speech, Ambient, Effects and Music.
Surround sound Native
Subtitles Native Disabled by default; set in Options, Gameplay.
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Native

Localizations

Information To choose the language for the GOG.com version use Settings.exe in the installation folder.[2]
Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native
Czech Native Impossible Native
French Native Impossible Native
German Native Native Native
Italian Native Impossible Native
Polish Native Native Native
Russian Native Native Native
Spanish Native Impossible Native

Issues fixed[edit]

Very low frame rate on AMD with Crossfire enabled[edit]

Fix Disable Crossfire[3]

Sound speaker option is greyed out[edit]

Fix Check Windows sound settings[3]

Confirm Windows sound settings are correctly configured for 5.1/7.1

Risen 2 Fails to Launch / Hangs on launch[edit]

Fix Install PhysX

Install the NVIDIA PhysX System Software.

Fix Verify Game Integrity (Steam)[3]

  1. Find Risen 2 in your Steam Library
  2. Right-click the game name
  3. Select Properties
  4. Go to the Local Files tab
  5. Select Verify Integrity of Game Cache...
  6. This may take a while, just wait for it to finish
  7. Once it's done press OK
  8. Launch the game

If that doesn't fix the issue, run these installers and reboot the computer afterward:

Black screen during intro[edit]

Fix Change ATI settings[3]

When starting up the game, the menu loads fine. But once the intro movie reaches Caldera, the screen becomes mostly black. Fix below is for ATI Video Card User's Only:

  1. In the Catalyst Control Center, change the "Texture Filtering Quality" to High Quality
  2. Set anti-aliasing AA in catalyst to use application settings and turn on vsync; then in the game, turn off AA and keep vsync.

Game doesn't start / Frequency out of range error[edit]

Fix Edit ConfigUser.xml[3]

  1. In the section <Window>, you should verify that the values are correct: 
AdapterNumber="0"
Top="0"
Bottom="768"
Left="0"
Right="1024
RefreshRate="85"

Fix Alternative - delete ConfigUser.xml[3]

Delete ConfigUser.xml (the next time you restart the game, it will recreate a default configuration file.

Dropping / Low FPS with Nvidia graphics cards[edit]

Fix Uninstall 3D Vision[3]

  1. Uninstall your graphic driver.
  2. Reboot the system.
  3. Re-install the most up-to-date driver. However, while doing so, make sure to select "Custom Installation" and choose to not install the "3D Vision" component.

Significant frame rate drops when player is near water[edit]

Fix De-activate water reflection.[3]

Game uses the wrong monitor[edit]

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

Fix Set monitor in ConfigUser.xml[4]

  1. Edit %LOCALAPPDATA%\Risen2\Config\ConfigUser.xml
  2. Change the AdapterNumber line so it reads AdapterNumber="0"
  3. Save your changes and test the result in-game.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2, Vista SP1, 7 XP SP2, Vista SP1, 7
Processor (CPU) Dual Core 2.1 GHz Dual Core 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
5.5 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon 3870
NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
512 MB of VRAM 		AMD Radeon 4890
NVidia GeForce GTX260
1 GB of VRAM

References

  1. ↑ New 120Hz Games Report
  2. ↑ Risen 2: Wrong language installed, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 http://forum.deepsilver.com/forum/showthread.php/63018-FAQ-Risen-technical-information-difficulties-problems
  4. ↑ Risen 2 displays on the wrong monitor - GameSpot.com