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Commandos 2: Men of Courage

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Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Commandos 2: Men of Courage cover
Developers
Pyro Studios
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
OS X Feral Interactive
Release dates
Windows September 20, 2001
macOS (OS X) May 2005
Commandos 2: Men of Courage guide on StrategyWiki
Commandos 2: Men of Courage on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Commandos
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines 1998
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty 1999
Commandos 2: Men of Courage 2001
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin 2003
Commandos: Strike Force 2006
Commandos 2 HD Remaster 2020
Commandos 3 HD Remaster 2022
Commandos: Origins 2024

Key points

Some mods are available, and a somewhat active modding community still exists.

General information

Commandos Wiki
Revora Commandos Modding Community (requires registration)
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with Commandos 3: Destination Berlin. Cannot be purchased in Germany.[3]
Windows
Steam
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for the retail release is 1.2. Digital releases are already patched.

Mission mods

Destination Paris is a mod that makes the game more challenging.
A modding community for the game still exists.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\OUTPUT\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6830/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\OUTPUT\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/6830/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General options
General options

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Example of graphical glitch experienced with horizontal resolution of 1920px.
Example of graphical glitch experienced with horizontal resolution of 1920px.
Widescreen-ready executables - Just pick the one you want, rename the old one, put the new executable and rename it to "comm2". When you start the game, choose 800x600 resolution.
Retail versions need to have 1.2 patch (mirror) installed to work.
Destination Paris will not work with this.

Manual process

You need to override one (or more) of the four built-in resolution options with the custom resolution(s) you want.
Horizontal resolutions above 1440px, when playing non-tutorial missions, cause major graphical glitches and also crashes the game when zooming.
Overriding built-in resolutions[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open comm2.exe with a hex editor such as HxD (you might need to run the editor as an administrator).
  3. Pick one of the four built-in resolutions to override with a higher/wider resolution and remember its color:
    640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024
  4. Search for these hexadecimal strings (which control window and viewport width, respectively):
    • 80 02 00 00 C3 B8 20 03 00 00 C3 B8 00 04 00 00 C3 B8 00 05
    • 80 02 00 00 EB 13 BA 20 03 00 00 EB 0C BA 00 04 00 00 EB 05 BA 00 05
  5. Then, for both, replace the string in the color you chose, with a new string corresponding to the horizontal resolution you want:
    • For 1366px, replace with: 56 05
    • For 1440px, replace with: A0 05
    • For 1920px, replace with: 80 07 (Might cause glitches)
    • For other values, see this list of hex values.
  6. Search for these hexadecimal strings (which control window and viewport height, respectively):
    • E0 01 00 00 C3 B8 58 02 00 00 C3 B8 00 03 00 00 C3 B8 00 04
    • E0 01 00 00 89 10 89 48 04 C2 04 00 8B 44 24 04 B9 58 02 00 00 89 10 89 48 04 C2 04 00 8B 44 24 04 B9 00 03 00 00 89 10 89 48 04 C2 04 00 B9 00 04
  7. Then, for both, replace the string in the color you chose, with a new string corresponding to the vertical resolution you want:
    • For 768px, replace with: 00 03
    • For 900px, replace with: 84 03
    • For 1080px, replace with: 38 04
    • For other values, see this list of hex values.
  8. Save your changes and close the hex editor.
  9. Run the game, and under "Options" select (one of) the resolution(s) you hacked (it will still be listed as the original resolution).

Windowed

Unfortunately, playing the game windowed appears to disable edge-scrolling.

To enable windowed, just press Alt+ Enter at any time in-game.

Permanently enabling windowed[citation needed]
  1. Go to the save game data location.
  2. Open COMM2.CFG for editing
  3. Change .INICIAR_EN_FULL_SCREEN 1 to .INICIAR_EN_FULL_SCREEN 0
  4. Save your edit

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings
Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Local retail release only.
Spanish
Retail version, download

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Co-op
Online play
Co-op

Connection types

Issues fixed

Videos don't work

Install Indeo video codec[4]
Run the game with Windows 2000 compatibility[5]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible

Notes

  1. 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. 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/6830/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (6830) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References