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Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

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Cossacks II: Battle for Europe
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe cover
Developers
GSC Game World
Publishers
Retail cdv Software Entertainment
Digital GSC Game World
Release dates
Windows June 19, 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Europe
Series Cossacks
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Cossacks II: Battle for Europe on MobyGames
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe on Wikipedia
Cossacks
Cossacks: European Wars 2000
Cossacks: The Art of War 2002
Cossacks: Back to War 2002
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars 2005
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe 2006
Cossacks 3 2016

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Cossacks II: Battle for Europe is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Cossacks series.

General information

Standalone expansion pack for Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars; does not require the original game to run.
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Sold together with Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars.
Windows
Steam
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for the Russian release (1.4) can be found here.
The official modern graphics card fix can be found here.

Skip intro videos

Delete, move or rename files[5]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Delete, move or rename the following files: 1.bik (CDV logo, retail only), 2.bik (GSC logo), 3.bik (game intro).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\settings.xml[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/4890/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/4890/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General options menu
General options menu

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
The main menu is hardcoded to a low resolution, however.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
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
Uncapped.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

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
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[6] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Issues fixed

"Video memory ... AGP 256 ..."

The full content of the error windows that appears when launching the game:
Engine.exe detected, that video memory is not configured properly. Please restart computer and set AGP Aperture size = 256 MB or more in BIOS configuration program. Usually you can enter BIOS configuration utility by pressing 'DEL' while computer restart.
Apply official graphics card fix

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c (actually uses DirectX 8) compatible


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).
  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>/4890/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (4890) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References