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Cossacks
Cossacks: European Wars	2000
Cossacks: The Art of War	2002
Cossacks: Back to War	2002
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars	2005
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe	2006
Cossacks 3	2016

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		StarForce 3 DRM^{[Note 1]}.
GOG.com		Sold together with Cossacks II: Battle for Europe.
Steam

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Patches

1.1 (2006): Game less slow. bugfixes, Balancing Changes.
1.2 (2006): Bugfixes, Balancing Changes.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115200/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Data\Save\Camp\^{[Note 3]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115200/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Spanish				Retail version, download.
French

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98SE	ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+	Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2800+
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	768 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce2 Ti ATI Radeon 7500 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB of VRAM

Crashes known

"There are too much handlers"

When playing the campagin following "liberation", a error window appear (titled "FMManager Error") with the message "There are too much handlers: 1237240".

Workaround : cheat code (press Enter) "walkover".^[5]

Note: It occurs also with the latest latest patch and even with 8 GB RAM.

"Video memory ... AGP 256 ..."

The full content of the error windows that appear when launching the game:
« Engine.exe detected, that video memory is not configured properly. Please restart computer and set AGP Aperture size = 256 MB or more in BIOS configuration program. Usually you can enter BIOS configuration utility by pressing `DEL' while computer restart. »

There was a patch.^[6] Note: as of 2018 it seems not downloadable anymore from this website, but it is downloadable from another.^[7]

Tricks

Change mouse click sound

From a file manager, open the folder: "Program Files/GSC Game World/Cossacks II/Data/Sound/interface"

Rename the file interf_click1.wav to select1.waw (less noisy). You must provide a sound file for "select1.wav" otherwise the game will not start.

Skip intro videos

From a file manager, open the folder: "Program Files/GSC Game World/Cossacks II/Data/"

Rename the following file names (you may add "_off" for example):

1.bik (it is the CDV video)
2.bik (it is the GSC video)
3.bik (it is the game intro video)

1280x1024 screen

The game start (v1.2) but set a wrong refresh rate (not 60 HZ).

Fix: unknown. If the OS is Linux then you may run 'winecfg' to force the display to a 'Emulate a Virtual desktop' (example 1024x768).

Notes

↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (115200) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ 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

[5] This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.

[Proton_path_note-6] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (115200) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (115200) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[gamedir-7] 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).

[StarForce_Windows_Vista-1] Windows Vista support - StarForce Support

[StarForce_Windows_7-2] Windows 7 support - StarForce Support

[StarForce_Windows_8.1-3] Windows 8.1 support - StarForce Support

[StarForce_Windows_10-4] Windows 10 support - StarForce Support

[8] ttp://autunnois.forumactif.com/t5153-fmmanager-error

[9] ttps://www.moddb.com/games/cossacks-ii-napoleonic-wars/downloads/modern-graphic-cards-fix

[10] ttp://files.gsc-game.com/cs2/c2-hoae-3d-patch.zip

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-|separate volume          = yes
+|separate volume          = true
 |separate volume notes    =
 |surround sound           = unknown
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 |subtitles                = n/a
 |subtitles notes          =
-|closed captions          = yes
+|closed captions          = true
 |closed captions notes    =
 |mute on focus lost       = unknown
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 {{L10n/switch
 |language  = English
-|interface = yes
+|interface = true
 |audio     = n/a
 |subtitles = n/a
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 {{L10n/switch
   |language  = Spanish
-  |interface = yes
+  |interface = true
   |audio     = n/a
   |subtitles = n/a
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 {{L10n/switch
   |language  = French
-  |interface = yes
+  |interface = true
-  |audio     = yes
+  |audio     = true
   |subtitles = n/a
   |notes     =

Developers

	GSC Game World
Publishers
	cdv Software Entertainment
Digital	GSC World Publishing
Release dates
Windows	April 26, 2005