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Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge

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Revision as of 13:16, 18 November 2018 by Waschbär (talk | contribs) (Added missing info and windowed fix. Added AMD fix, needs testing from Windows 10 users and Vega card users - until then it should stay as unfixed. Removed stub tag.)
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge cover
Developers
Spellbound
Publishers
Atari
Nordic Games
Engines
Trinigy Vision Engine
Release dates
Windows April 28, 2006
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge guide on StrategyWiki
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge on Wikipedia
Desperados
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive 2001
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge 2006
Helldorado 2007
Desperados III 2020

Key points

Heavy graphical corruption on modern AMD systems. See Issues unfixed.

General information

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)
SecuROM DRM or TAGES 5.5 DRM.
Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
A demo can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

Essential improvements

Patches

The v1.01 Patch updates the retail game to the latest version. In-game version will be shown as v1.48.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\configuration\game\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9710/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Cooper's Revenge\Savegame\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/9710/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in settings.xml[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit settings.xml.
  3. Set the ENGINE_RESOLUTION_X and ENGINE_RESOLUTION_Y values to the resolution you want.
  4. Save your changes and close the file.

Windowed

Modify settings.xml[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit settings.xml.
  3. Set the ENGINE_FULLSCREEN value to 0.
  4. Save your changes and close the file.

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.
Mouse settings.
Mouse settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Local retail version only.
French
Local retail version only.
Italian
Local retail version only.
Spanish
Local retail version only.

Issues unfixed

Graphical glitches with AMD GPUs

Starting with the release of driver version 14.9, the game shows heavy graphical corruption on Windows systems.
Insert older OpenGL driver[2]
  1. Download the OpenGL driver files of version 14.8.
  2. Extract the files atig6txx.dll, atigktxx.dll, atio6axx.dll and atioglxx.dll to <path-to-game>.

Notes

This fix may not work with the most recent AMD cards or on Windows 10.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 3.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.9 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1900
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  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

  1. Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge | WSGF
  2. 2.0 2.1 Verified by User:Waschbär on 2018-11-18
    Tested on Windows 7 with R9 580X