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Heretic II
Heretic II cover
Developers
Raven Software
Publishers
Activision
Engines
id Tech 2
Release dates
Windows October 31, 1998
Linux November 15, 1999
Mac OS (Classic) January 1, 2002
Heretic II on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Heretic
Heretic 1994
Hexen: Beyond Heretic 1995
Hexen II 1997
Heretic II 1998

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
A demo is available, but the single-player portion cannot initially be played due to a date delimiter that does not allow it to run after November 1, 1998;[1] there is a patch that fixes this.
Owners of the Loki Software Linux port of the game should consider using the installer from LIfLG, if you wish to run the game on a newer system. It is currently in beta.

Essential improvements

Enhancement Pack v1.07

Community patch that includes Raven's Enhancement Pack v1.06 alongside support for widescreen resolutions and other changes.

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Input settings

General settings, including categorised inputs.
General settings, including categorised inputs.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Co-op, Versus
Online play
8 Co-op, Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[2] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OSS OSS is Linux only
Interface SDL SDL is Linux only
Multiplayer GameSpy

Issues fixed

Linux

No sound

This happens due to the fact the game uses OSS for sound output only.
Instructions
Instructions
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz with 3D hardware accelerator
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA DirectX-compatible video card
2 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2.2.x Linux kernel
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 260 MB
Video card (GPU)
Other OSS compatible sound and glibc-2.1

References