Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos

Independence War
Independence War	1997
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos	2001

Key points

For Windows 8 and later apply the low frame rate fix.

Released as Edge of Chaos: Independence War 2 in Europe and Galaxy Commander: Edge of Chaos for the German re-release.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GamersGate

GOG.com
Steam		You need an optical drive for the singleplayer.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\movies\` Delete or rename `Infogrames.bik`, `intro.bik`, and `psys.bik`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\flux.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/359630/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saves\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/359630/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

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Anti-aliasing (AA)

By default, the game's AA can only be toggled on/off for the in-game HUD lines and orb stalks.

Force Anti-aliasing (AA) using either the Nvidia Control Panel or AMD Catalyst Control Center^{[citation needed]}

Windowed

Set windowed mode in flux.ini^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>`. Edit `flux.ini` Change `full_screen = 1` to `full_screen = 0` Save your changes and close the file.

Input settings

Input settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian				Fan translation based unofficial translate «Fargus Multimedia»

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Low frame rate in fullscreen mode

This issue occurs on Windows 8 and later.

Use low frame rate fix
Apply the low frame rate fix

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Input	DirectInput
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	XP
Processor (CPU)	600 MHz Pentium or better	2 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Riva TNT 2 or better DirectX 8 compatible	HD 3000 Series or better DirectX 9 compatible

These requirements are for the GOG.com release.

Notes

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/359630/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (359630) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[gamedir-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).

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/359630/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (359630) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

Developers

	Particle Systems
Publishers
	Infogrames
Release dates
Windows	June 28, 2001