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Lords of the Realm II

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Lords of the Realm II
Lords of the Realm II cover
Developers
Impressions Games
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Rebellion Developments
Release dates
DOS October 1996
Windows October 1996
Mac OS (Classic) 1997
macOS (OS X) April 23, 2013[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Top-down view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Europe, Medieval
Series Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm II on HowLongToBeat
Lords of the Realm II on MobyGames
Lords of the Realm II on Wikipedia
Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm 1994
Lords of the Realm II 1996
Lords of the Realm III 2003

Lords of the Realm II is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view, top-down view and isometric strategy game in the Lords of the Realm series.

The game received the Siege Pack expansion in 1997, featuring new maps, improved AI, skirmish mode, a map editor and an all-battle mode. The Royal Edition from the same year included both titles, as well as the original Lords of the Realm.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
CD contains both Windows and DOS versions.
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows version. Includes the Siege Pack expansion and Lords of the Realm.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows version. Includes the Siege Pack expansion.
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows version, pre-packaged with DDrawCompat. Includes the Siege Pack expansion and Lords of the Realm.
Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org (base game, Siege Pack) and SierraHelp.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Siege Pack
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video file[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Delete or rename Intro.smk.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\LORDS2.INF[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/397350/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\*.SAV[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/397350/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail only.
German
Retail and GOG.com only.

Network

Multiplayer requires DirectPlay to be enabled in Windows.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
5
Online play
Sierra Internet Gaming System has been shut down.

Connection types

Issues fixed

Distorted colors

Run the game in 256 color mode[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes SVGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 486 DX/2 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 34 MB
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) 486 DX/2 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 34 MB
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/397350/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (397350) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Mac Game Update: 22 New Additions - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Verified by User:Plok on 2024-02-21