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General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Essential improvements
Patches
- The fan patch creates a Windows NT-compatible executable file called
ig2nt.exe
. This should be the target of any shortcuts.
Running on Modern Systems
http://web.archive.org/web/20160328112148/http://yet-another-geek.org/archives/11-Getting-Imperium-Galactica-II-to-run-on-Windows-XP.html
This game runs well with dgVoodoo 2.55.4 in 1080p resolution with anti-aliasing. You must set these in dgVoodoo and leave the game's resolution on 1024x768. This method avoids the black video bug.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
Video settings
Template:Video settings
Input settings
Template:Input settings
Audio settings
Template:Audio settings
Localizations
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Sub |
Notes |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Issues unresolved
Blank cutscenes
- Many cinematics in the campaigns play only the sound (most notably the introductions).
Multiplayer compatibility
- Multiplayer. But the guide linked earlier mentions it's possible if you ensure windows firewall is disabled. Apparently multiplayer will work with any of the four disks.
Issues fixed
Game crashes on non-4:3 resolutions
- The game will crash on certain screens (fleet info, design, scenario select, etc.) if the display aspect ratio isn't 4:3 in the
ig2.ini
file.
Modify ig2.ini[citation needed]
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- Go to the installation folder.
- Open
ig2.ini .
- Find the line containing
Video mode and modify it so a 4:3 resolution is specified. Example:
Video mode = 1024x768x32
- Save and close the file.
Notes
- Perform this step again whenever
setup.exe is run.
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Stutter on multi-core systems
Modify the game's shortcut target[citation needed]
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- Right-click on the game shortcut.
- From the pop-up menu which appears, select
Properties .
- Change the value of
Target: to %WINDIR%\System32\cmd.exe /C START "Imperium Galactica 2" /normal /affinity 1 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Digital Reality\Imperium Galactica 2\ig2nt.exe"
- Click the
OK button.
Notes
- This fix assumes the patches are installed.
- The new value for
Target: assigns the game the first logical core, core 0. To use another processor, change /affinity 1 to another value, such as /affinity 2 to use the second logical core, core 1.
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Game hangs on loading campagin
- The game sometimes hangs if it needs to change disks to load a specific campaign.
Insert the correct game disc before selecting a campaign[citation needed]
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Other information
API
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
95, 98 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 233 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
600 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
D3D compatible graphics card |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).
References