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Castles II: Siege and Conquest

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Castles II: Siege and Conquest
Castles II: Siege and Conquest cover
Developers
Quicksilver Software
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
DOS 1992
Mac OS (Classic) April 1994
Windows October 21, 2008[1]
macOS (OS X) 2012
Linux February 14, 2017[2]
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Castles II: Siege and Conquest on Wikipedia
Castles
Castles 1991
Castles II: Siege and Conquest 1992

Key points

Using the "Save before quitting" feature may cause gameplay issues when the saves are loaded.[3] It's recommended that you don't use this feature.[4]

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
 Floppies or CD-ROM. Run in DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Bundled with Castles. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[5]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Edit C2CD.BAT[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit C2CD.BAT.
  3. Change c2cdtool quickfades firsttime to c2cdtool quickfades startagain
  4. Save your changes. The game will now go directly to the main menu.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\OPTIONS.DAT
Windows <path-to-game>\OPTIONS.DAT[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/670180/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.GAM
Windows <path-to-game>\*.GAM[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/670180/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

300px
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Save games don't work correctly

Using the save before quitting feature may break saves, causing issues with gameplay when the saves are loaded.[3]
To avoid this issue simply save the game manually, then quit and choose Don't Save when prompted.[4]

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 730 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 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 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References