Risen 2: Dark Waters

Risen
Risen	2009
Risen 2: Dark Waters	2012
Risen 3: Titan Lords	2014

General information

Deep Silver Official Forum

World of Risen

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

GOG.com		Choice of Standard or Gold Edition.
Origin
Humble Store		Gold Edition
Steam

Version differences

The Gold Edition is a complete edition with all DLC.

DLC and expansion packs

DLC is sold individually for Steam; for GOG.com the DLC is a combined package (Gold Edition Upgrade).

Name	Notes
Air Temple
A Pirate's Clothes
Treasure Isle

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Utilities

Risen 2 Tune - small utility to manage general game options, like: disabling/enabling AutoSave, Static Camera, SloMo, Tutorial System, Changing resolution, etc.

Game data

Configuration files location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/40390/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

ConfigUser.xml contains settings and achievements.

Action_Map_User_1.xam contains primary key bindings.

Action_Map_User_2.xam contains secondary key bindings.

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/40390/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Windows XP save games are stored in %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Risen2\SaveGames\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

Graphics settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

Input settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.

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Localizations

To choose the language for the GOG.com version use Settings.exe in the installation folder.^[1]

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	GG3D	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision			Works with limitations (e.g. shadows must be disabled).^[2]
iZ3D

Issues fixed

Very low frame rate on AMD with Crossfire enabled

Instructions

Sound speaker option is greyed out

Instructions

Risen 2 Fails to Launch / Hangs on launch

Instructions

Instructions

Black screen during intro

Instructions

Game doesn't start / Frequency out of range error

Instructions

Instructions

Dropping / Low FPS with Nvidia graphics cards

Instructions

Significant frame rate drops when player is near water

Instructions

Game uses the wrong monitor

The game may pick the wrong monitor on a multi-monitor setup when a multi-monitor resolution is not used in-game.

Instructions

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX

Hide system cursor when game is in focus

When running in Windowed mode the game displays both in-game cursor and system cursor. This may be annoying for some people. Below is the script to solve this issue.

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP2	Vista SP1, 7
Processor (CPU)	Dual Core 2.1 GHz	Dual Core 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 3870 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX 512 MB of VRAM	ATI Radeon HD 4890 Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 1 GB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (40390) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (40390) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[4] The app ID (40390) may differ in some cases.

[5] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[6] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] Risen 2: Wrong language installed, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

[3] 3D Vision and other graphical issues.

[Note 1]

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Developers

	Piranha Bytes
Publishers
	Deep Silver
Release dates
Windows	April 27, 2012