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Alien Nations
Alien Nations	1999
The Nations	2001

Key points

Released as Alien Nations 2, Die Völker II and Lost World 3 in some territories

General information

Official website (retrieved)

The Nations - English Board - Publisher forum

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 2 DRM
GOG.com		Gold Edition.
GamersGate (unavailable)

Version differences

The Gold Edition, released in late 2001, includes 22 additional missions, a new research system, and new cutscenes and music.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen Resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Windowed

Set in registry^[2]
Go to `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JoWood\DV2Addon` Change the `video.refresh` value to `FFFFFFFF` (set back to `00000000` to return to fullscreen mode).

Widescreen Resolution

Use included tools utility^[3]

Open the tools folder in the game's installation directory and run tools.exe
Select Troubleshooting and press start.
Set the checkbox next to Resolution, select Fix and enter 1920 and 1080.
Press the Save button and close the utility.
Right click on the game's desktop shortcut or game.exe, go to Compatibility tab and disable Compatibility mode.

Higher resolutions might work but the UI elements become unrecognisably small.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German				Retail only; download for GOG.com version
Spanish				Retail only

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8	Versus
Online play		FSGS servers are down

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Solution Spanish version

dv2.ca file the Spanish version for some reason it does not work on windows 7

if you have a version in English and the dv2.ca replace it by the Spanish, the game is in Spanish and it works

by now it has been impossible get the gold content (bonus map) it can only be played in the German or English version

for now

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 350 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	300 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7.0 compatible

References

[1] The Nations - JoWooD Productions (retrieved)

[2] The Nations: Windowed mode, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

[3] The Nations: Widescreen resolution problem, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

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Developers

	JoWood Vienna
Publishers
	JoWood Productions^[1]
	Nordic Games
	Zeta Multimedia
Release dates
Windows	June 15, 2001
Taxonomy
Series	Alien Nations