General information
- Paradox Interactive Forums
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Version differences
- The Civil War Edition includes the base game and A House Divided DLC.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
| Name |
Notes |
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| A House Divided |
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| Heart of Darkness |
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| German Unit Pack |
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| Interwar Artillery Sprite Pack |
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| Interwar Cavalry Unit Pack |
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| Interwar Engineer Unit Pack |
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| Interwar Planes Spritepack |
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| Interwar Spritepack |
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| Songs of the Civil War |
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Essential improvements
- The expansions add some extremely important features and quality-of-life changes, such as being able to manufacture war justifications against other states, managing rebellious movements, the ability to actually see the player's infamy score and a colonisation mechanic among other needed changes.[2]
Skip intro videos
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Move, delete or rename movies folder[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>.
- Delete or rename the
movies folder.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- Some configuration files are stored in
<path-to-game>\save games
- Mod configuration files are stored in
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 2
Save game data location
- Mod saves are stored in
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 2>
Video
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Enable anisotropic filtering[citation needed]
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- Go to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 2.
- Open
settings.txt in a text editor.
- Change
anisotropic_filtering = 0 to a value between 1 and 16
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Input
Audio
| Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
| Separate volume controls |
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Global/SFX/Music |
| Surround sound |
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| Subtitles |
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No voiced audio. |
| Closed captions |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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| Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Network
Multiplayer types
Issues fixed
Crashing on Windows 8/XP: map cache
- This crash is caused by map cache data from an old version downloading with the game on Steam.
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Delete and regenerate map cache folders[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\map.
- Delete the
cache folder.
- Go to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 2\map.
- Delete the
cache folder.
- Restart the game and let it regenerate the map cache.
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Crashing on Windows XP: Incompatible lua5.1.dll & lua51.dll files
This crash is caused by the included LUA scripting DLLs being incompatible with Windows XP, which prevent the game from starting.
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Replace files[citation needed]
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- Download older LUA DLLs version
lua5_1_4_Win32_dll6_lib.zip.
- Go to
<path-to-game>..
- Rename or remove the original
lua5.1.dll and lua51.dll files.
- Extract
lua5.1.dll and lua51.dll from lua5_1_4_Win32_dll6_lib.zip to <path-to-game>.
Notes
- Alternatively, the
lua5.1.dll and lua51.dll from Hearts of Iron III can be used.
- Some versions of the game with the Heart of Darkness DLC installed may still crash in the middle of loading.
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Other information
API
| Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
| Windows |
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| macOS (OS X) | |
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Modifications
- Active modding community found in the official forums or ModDB.
- Some brief descriptions of mods can be found on the official wiki.
- Most mods require both expansions and the beta 3.04 branch to be set for the Steam version
Historical Project Mod (HPM)
- Requires Heart of Darkness DLC and beta 3.04
- Adds significant historical flavor and features to the game, particularly through events and decisions
- The Github wiki contains numerous minimods and addons
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Install HPM
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- Download the latest version of HPM from ModDB or GitHub.
- Extract HPM into
<path-to-game>\mod.
- Click the check box next to the mod's name in the game launcher.
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- Fork of an older HPM version, adds a significant amount of nations & decisions but is considered more limiting in freedom as the events can railroad the player in historical scenarios
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Install HFM
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- Download the latest version of HFM.
- Extract HFM into the
<path-to-game>\mod.
- Click the check box next to the mod's name in the game launcher.
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- Two new starting dates,1946 & 1992. Countless new events, nations, decisions and mechanics
- Based on New World Order (NWO)
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Install CWE
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- Download the latest version of CWE from GitHub.
- Extract CWE into the
<path-to-game>\mod.
- The optional music files can be found here and need to be extracted in
<path-to-game>\mod\CWE\music.
- Click the check box next to the mod's name in the game launcher.
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- Open source re-implementation of the engine
- Under development
System requirements
| Windows |
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Minimum |
| Operating system (OS) |
XP SP3, Vista, 7 |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
AMD 3500+ |
| System memory (RAM) |
2 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
2 GB |
| Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce 8800
ATI Radeon X1900 or above |
Notes
References
