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Hard Truck 2

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Revision as of 07:25, 25 March 2019 by Evokethunder (talk | contribs) (Removed {{stub}} tag)
Hard Truck 2
Hard Truck 2 cover
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

Released as Hard Truck 2: King of the Road in Europe June 7, 2002
Released as Дальнобойщики II in Russia September 27, 2001
No longer available new for purchase.

Availability

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

Essential improvements

Patches

Official NA 1005 Patch

Game Fixes

No Accelerator Error
No Accelerator Error
No Graphics Accelerator dgVoodoo Fix

When launching the game a message displays that reads: "your computer does not have graphic accelerator!" (grammar errors are from game). To fix this problem, follow this Guide.[1]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Change Driver / Profile Menu
Change Driver / Profile Menu
Single Player Menu
Single Player Menu
System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\truck.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\DRIVER.pl1 (This is the default profile)[Note 1]
You can create new profiles under the "Change Driver" Menu.

Video settings

Graphics Menu
Graphics Menu

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolutions

You can set different resolutions using dgVoodoo Wrapper mentioned in the dgVoodoo Game Fix.[2]

Input settings

Controls Menu
Controls Menu
In-Game Controller Menu
In-Game Controller Menu

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Sound Menu
Sound Menu

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
There is no vocal dialogue in any version of the game.
Russian
Using Russian in the NA release only changes the splashscreen, and the plain text UI elements. All of the UI elements that are image based remain English.
Change Game Language to Russian
  1. Go to the configuration files location
  2. Open TRUCK.INI
  3. change this line:
    4. [ENV]
langv=rus
  4. Save file to desktop, then copy into <path-to-game> and replace existing TRUCK.INI.

Network

Multiplayer Host Configuration
Multiplayer Host Configuration

Multiplayer types

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

Connection types

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

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
DirectDraw 7
OpenGL 1.2
Glide ? Glide is officially supported, but the version is not known.
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 required (minimal install) 370 MB required (maximum install)
Video card (GPU) Direct3D compatible hardware accelerator
2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible 		4 MB of VRAM
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).[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).

References

  1. ↑ Verified by User:evokethunder on 2019-03-24
  2. ↑ Verified by User:evokethunder on 2019-03-24
  3. ↑ Hard Truck 2 - Graphics Card Support - last accessed on February 12, 2018