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Revision as of 08:13, 22 May 2017

Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II cover
Developers
LucasArts
Publishers
LucasArts
Disney Interactive Studios
Engines
Sith
Release dates
Windows September 30, 1997
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II guide on StrategyWiki
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II on Wikipedia
Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars: Dark Forces 1995
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II 1997
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith 1998
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast 2002
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy 2003
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster 2024

Key points

Running the game on AMD using Catalyst 13.2 (or newer) requires a workaround. See 3D Acceleration problems.
Installer is 16-bit only; use the Alternate installer for 64-bit versions of Windows.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums
Wookieepedia - A huge wiki dedicated to the Star Wars universe
JKDF2.NET - A fan site for the game

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Disk check can be skipped with this
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes Star Wars: Jedi Knight – Mysteries of the Sith
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Mysteries of the Sith Retail requires base game; digital distribution version is a standalone title.[1][2]
Windows

Version differences

The GOG.com and Steam versions has been patched for compatibility and include working music.[3][4]

Essential improvements

In-game gameplay settings.
In-game gameplay settings.

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Alternate installer

Allows the game to be installed on 64-bit systems.

Patches

Unofficial Jedi Knight patch

Adds team chat to multiplayer and is required for many mods. Comes with official patch

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32380/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32380/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game advanced video settings (only accessible via the -displayconfig command line argument).
In-game advanced video settings (only accessible via the -displayconfig command line argument).

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Input settings

In-game general control settings.
In-game general control settings.
In-game keyboard settings.
In-game keyboard settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game joystick settings.
In-game joystick settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
There is issue with the second disc of Retail release. It will switch to English voice-over in the cutscenes for no reason.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32
Online play
32

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 2300-2400, 47624-47625
UDP 2300-2400, 47624-47625
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Game won't start

Instructions

3D Acceleration problems

Running the game with 3D acceleration turned on may cause crashes or graphics problems on some modern machines. If you experience problems, try the following steps (you may have to do this every time you launch the game):

Instructions
Instructions

Black screen during menu

Instructions
Instructions

Seemingly low FPS or stuttering

The game appears to have an issue where, while running at 60 FPS, it will update camera movement at 30. This gives the appearance of poor performance and can be improved by capping the frame rate below 48.

Instructions

HUD does not appear, or screen has black border

Instructions

Wrong or missing music (with CD)

Instructions

Music does not loop

This is a known issue on some Windows Vista and 7 machines

Instructions
Instructions

Miscellaneous fixes

Instructions
Instructions

Other information

Access advanced display settings menu

Instructions

Texture/model enhancement

Jedi Knight Enhanced is a model enhancement pack which requires the unofficial patch to be installed; an older version of the patch is included in the download.
Instructions
  • Jedi Knight Retexture Pack is a texture enhancement pack which can be used alone or in conjunction with Jedi Knight Enhanced. It requires the unofficial patch to be installed.
Instructions
  • The LOD Mod prevents NPCs and textures being scaled down in quality as you move away, which is very noticeable when playing in high resolutions. This is recommended regardless of whether you're using the above two graphics mods.
Instructions

Notes

This mod requires that you start a new game and prevents old save games from being loaded, as it replaces all of the level files.
Does not currently work on Level 6 of the original game.

JK HUD Revamp

Jedi Knight's normal HUD is too small at high resolutions. The HUD revamp mod replaces the default GUI and HUD elements with larger, higher resolution alternatives.
jkhud.zip affects the health and ammo readouts, and jkgui.zip the force power and item icons.
Instructions

Mods and Steam version

Instructions

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 53 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/32380/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (32380) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References