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Hard Truck 2

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Hard Truck 2
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Developers
SoftLab-NSK
Publishers
North America ValuSoft
Europe JoWood Productions
Russia 1C Company
Release dates
Windows June 19, 2000
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Key points

Hard Truck 2 is the world's first continous driving simulator.
Released as Hard Truck 2: King of the Road in Europe June 7, 2002
Released as Дальнобойщики 2 in Russia September 27, 2001

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Official Patches (Archive.org May 4, 2015)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

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Widescreen resolution

Modify truck.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open truck.ini with Microsoft Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Under the [ENV] heading modify xres=800 and yres=600 to whatever resolution you wish.
  4. Save the file and launch the game.

Notes

Whenever you change graphical settings in-game xres= and yres= will be reset to 800x600.

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
All dialogue is text based.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues unresolved

Game cannot detect modern GPUs

Upon first launch, you are greeted with a message that reads: "your computer does not have graphic accelerator!" (grammar issues are from game)

No known consistent fix exists as of yet.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM) 32 MB 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 15 MB free space required (minimal install) 370 MB free space required (maximum install)
Video card (GPU) Direct3D compatible hardware accelerator
2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible 		4 MB of VRAM

GPU Support

Supported GPUs are not explicitly listed in the official system requirements,

However, softlab-nsk referenced support for S3, 3dfx, and SiS cards on the Hard Truck 2 website (until they stopped hosting the webpage).[1]

References

  1. ↑ Hard Truck 2 - Graphics Card Support - last accessed on February 12, 2018