Hard Truck 2

Hard Truck 2

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

Hard Truck
Hard Truck	1998
Hard Truck 2	2000
Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel	2002
Hard Truck Apocalypse	2005
Hard Truck Tycoon	2006
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans	2006
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade	2007
Rig 'n' Roll	2009

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Key points

Released as Hard Truck 2: King of the Road in Europe June 7, 2002

Released as Дальнобойщики II: Издание Второе, Дополненное v8.1 in Russia September 27, 2001

Not to be confused with the same game versioned below version 8, which debuted as Rig'n'Roll in Europe and Americas in early 2000s (not the same as Rig'n'Roll on Steam)

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Hard Truck 2: King of the Road

Essential improvements

Patches

Official NA 1005 Patch

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Change Driver / Profile Menu

Single Player Menu

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\truck.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\*.pl1

DRIVER.pl1 is the default profile. You can create new profiles under the "Change Driver" menu.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Graphics Menu

Input settings

Controls Menu

In-Game Controller Menu

Audio settings

Sound Menu

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
Go to the configuration files location Open TRUCK.INI change this line: [ENV] langv=rus Save file to desktop, then copy into <path-to-game> and replace existing TRUCK.INI.

Network

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
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

"your computer does not have graphic accelerator" error on launch

No Accelerator Error

Use dgVoodoo2
Download dgVoodoo2. Extract the contents of the MS folder into the installation folder. If the game does not start, set htruck2.exe to run in the Windows XP (Service Pack 3) Windows Compatibility Mode. Notes dgVoodooSetup.exe can be used to change various settings (e.g. disabling the watermark).

Weird in-game physics for example the cars get stuck in one another upon collision

Largely improved if the resolution is set (assuming supported) to 1600x1200 (Russian title) or 1280x960 (English title). On resolutions of 1024x768 or less, colliding with cars and objects is so dangerous, you'd want to stay away from them

Known in-game bugs

• Prob: Accidentally escaped the map into the void!
• Soln: Often occurs after having changed seats with the other drivers too many times in the short period. Change seats again or call 911. Pick solution carefully, because of other problems below

• Prob: After changing seats (and possibly changing back) during the trucking mission, some of the rivals disappear, making impossible to arrive to the destination first
• Soln: No known workaround. Treat the bug as a penalty for changing seats

• Prob: After having conquered the vast majority of the in-game market shares (around 95%), it's no longer possible to find the remaining drivers for a hire
• Soln: The workaround is to initiate a trucking race, finish it (either first or otherwise) and hope the remaining unemployed truckers (assuming they participated in the race) will decide to want to be hired soon thereafter

• Prob: After having conquered the major stake of the in-game market shares, you often witness your employees engaging into any race you initiate (either directly or by changing seats)
• Soln: While vastly considered an in-game mechanic, this is very likely being a memory leak. No known workaround, but you may often use that problem to generate very quick money effectively. Find an employed driver finishing their race and carrying something costly; then change seats and hope the other employees with get bound to participate in the race. Every one of them then will produce quick revenue as they finish their races. Moreover, once you finish your race, you can change seats with one of employed-by-you former competitors, causing even more truckers to get engaged and so on.

• Prob: Cops only remember the vehicle to have committed crimes (if any), but not the drivers
• Soln: Heh, just abuse that

• Prob: The drivers agree to hotfix your vehicle only after many inquiries; the same goes to the rivals inquiries about dropping the load/slowing down
• Soln: Heh, just abuse that (2)

• Prob: If you drive a stolen vehicle and are doing trucking, the cops figure out you drive an illegal vehicle only after you put off your load
• Soln: No soln, a very weird and funny in-game bug

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).