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FlatOut 2

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FlatOut 2
FlatOut 2 cover
Developers
Bugbear Entertainment
macOS (OS X) Virtual Programming
Publishers
Empire Interactive
Digital Strategy First
Engines
ROMU Engine
Release dates
Windows June 30, 2006
macOS (OS X) October 3, 2008
Linux July 24, 2014[1]
FlatOut 2 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.
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
FlatOut
FlatOut 2004
FlatOut 2 2006
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage 2008
FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction 2011
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity 2017

Key points

GameSpy online server browser no longer works by default due to GameSpy services being shut down.
Can use multiplayer with OpenSpy.
Remade as FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage in 2008.

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)
US: SecuROM 7 DRM.
Europe: StarForce 3.0 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
macOS (OS X)
GamersGate
DRM details are not known
DRM: Deliver2Mac
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Mac App Store
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No online play.[6]
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Version differences

The Mac App Store version does not support online play.[6]
The Linux version found at GOG uses Wine wrapper to run the game.

Essential improvements

Opening the launcher

After the first time launching the game, the launcher won't show up again and you will be unable to configure the settings.

Launch parameter[citation needed]

Use the -setup command line argument.

Skip intro videos

Skip intro fix[citation needed]
  1. Download BFS file and place it in the installation folder.
  2. Open the filesystem file with a text editor.
  3. Add this new line at the bottom: mcz-fo2noint.bfs

Patches

The latest version is Patch 1.2 (US and EU)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegame\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2990/pfx/[Note 3]
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
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegame\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2990/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Game launcher (access with -setup parameter).
Game launcher (access with -setup parameter).

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Field of view (FOV)

Set FOVFactor[citation needed]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Edit Flatout2.WidescreenFix.ini.
  3. Set FOVFactor to the desired value.

Windowed

Force windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. Download d3d9hook.
  2. Extract d3d9.dll to <path-to-game>.

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
8 Hot seat
Rag Doll mini-games (Party Mode). See also FlatOut 2 Splitscreen Mod.
LAN play
8
Online play
8 Use the patched FlatOut2.exe. Not available in the Mac App Store version.[6]

Issues fixed

Juddery motion despite having a consistent frame rate

Use either 50Hz or 100Hz if your monitor is capable. If using G-Sync/FreeSync, use a third-party tool to cap the frame rate at 50 fps or leave it uncapped for 100 fps. Only leave it uncapped if your PC is capable of delivering 100 fps consistently.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy GameSpy has been shut down; use the patched FlatOut2.exe.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 3 1.5 GHz
AMD 2000+ 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7300
ATI Radeon X1600 minGPU3 = Intel GMA X3100
128 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800GT
AMD Radeon HD 5770 or better
(Intel cards are not supported)

Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[2][3][4][5] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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>/2990/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2990) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References