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Call to Power II

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Call to Power II
Call to Power II cover
Developers
Activision
Additional art Mad Doc Software
Release dates
Windows November 15, 2000
Reception
Metacritic 72
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres 4X, TBS
Themes Historical
Series Call to Power
Call to Power II on HowLongToBeat
Call to Power II on IGDB
Call to Power II guide on StrategyWiki
Call to Power II on MobyGames
Call to Power II on Wikipedia
Call to Power
Civilization: Call to Power 1999
Call to Power II 2000

Call to Power II is a 4X turn-based strategy game released in November 2000 as the final game internally developed by Activision. It dropped the Civilization prefix as a result of a licensing dispute with MicroProse in the late 1990s.

The game received a single official patch post-release. In 2003, the developers publicly released the game's source code, which resulted in community projects improving the game. The most prominent such project is the Apolyton CTP2 Edition, which has become the most common way of playing the game.

General information

Civilization Wiki - A detailed wiki for all Civilization games and their spin offs
Apolyton Civilization Site's CTP2 section - A huge forum dedicated to all Civilization games and their spin offs. Modifications for the game can be found here
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
CTP2 Bureau - The Modding Knowledgebase

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

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

Patches

v1.1 patch is the latest official version.

Apolyton CTP2 Edition

A huge fan made patch/continuation for the game, it provides modern PC support, bug fixes, and AI improvements.

The related forum can be found here. The download link is currently broken, this archive should be used instead.

A GitHub repository exists here.

Modern Times Mod for Call To Power AE

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ctp2_program\ctp\userprofile.txt[Note 2]
<path-to-game>\ctp2_program\ctp\userkeymap.txt[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/572050/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ctp2_program\ctp\save[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/572050/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.
In-game screen resolution settings.
In-game screen resolution settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Labeled as Mouse Speed.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound, voice, music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail only
German
Retail only; download for digital versions.
Italian
Retail only
Japanese
Retail only

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Hot seat
LAN play
Online play
The official servers have been shut down.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Multiplayer Earthlink

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 470 MB
Video card (GPU) 16-bit high colour video card
4 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/572050/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (572050) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References