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Icewind Dale II

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Icewind Dale II
Icewind Dale II cover
Developers
Black Isle Studios
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Engines
Infinity
Release dates
Windows August 27, 2002
macOS (OS X) April 17, 2014[1]
Icewind Dale II on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Icewind Dale
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Icewind Dale 2000
Icewind Dale II 2002
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition 2014

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS by default; increasing affects game speed.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Patched for modern systems. Includes the Adventure Pack expansion.
Windows
macOS (OS X)

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Adventure Pack
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\
  2. Delete or rename BISlogo.mve, Credits.mve, Nvidia.mve and WOTC.mve.

Playing without CD

If you performed a full install you can play without the CD in your drive by tricking the game. The copy protection will only check for the presence of a CD drive and the presence of a certain file. Set up a virtual CD drive using a tool of your choice and make sure it has the following file in its file tree:

  • CD2/Data/IWD2CD.2

Wine users can use Wine's winecfg program to set up a folder as a CD drive. Using cracks is not recommended since they can break compatibility with mods.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\icewind2.ini[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\Keymap.ini[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\mpsave\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Polish audio only in retail copies.
Russian
1) Official localization by «Akella» – local retail and GOG.com version.
2) Official localization by «1C-SoftClub - local retail»
Russian
Fan translation by prowler

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Connection types

Issues fixed

Frame Rate and Lag Fix

Use Aqrit's DDrawFix. The GOG.com version is already patched.

Game does not start on Windows 10 (GOG.com)

The GOG.com version does not start correctly on Windows 10.
Delete/rename ddraw.dll[3]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename ddraw.dll. The game should now start correctly.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 OSR2
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 350 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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