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Croc 2

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Croc 2
Croc 2 cover
Developers
Argonaut Games
Publishers
Fox Interactive
Engines
BRender
Release dates
Windows March 15, 2000
Reception
IGDB 60
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform
Art styles Stylized
Series Croc
Croc 2 on IGDB
Croc 2 on MobyGames
Croc 2 on Wikipedia
Croc
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos 1997
Croc 2 2000

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check. See Play without the CD.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Demos

Essential improvements

Play without the CD

The game can be manually setup to run from the hard drive instead of CD.
Copy files from disc[1]
  • defanim.wad
  • fesound.wad
  • Loading#.bmp
  • logos.avi
  • Trademarks.bmp

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]

Video

Video settings
Video settings
Video settings
Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Fix aspect ratio[2]
  1. Open Croc2.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Press Ctrl+R and set Datatype to Hex-values.
  3. Search for 0000403F and replace it with:
    • 0000203F for 16:10 screens
    • 9A99193F for 15:9 screens
    • 0000103F for 16:9 screens
    • B66DBD3E for 21:9 screens
  4. Save the file.

Input

Input settings
Input settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
5.1 via Dolby Surround
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Cannot be disabled.
EAX support
EAX 2.0; no DirectSound3D support.
Royalty free audio
All characters speak incomprehensibly, with their actual dialogue delivered through subtitles.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Swedish
US versions only contain an English language option.

Issues fixed

Graphic artefacts and crash in main menu on Intel iGPU[Note 2]

Use dgVoodoo

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II MMX 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 32 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX Compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. Tested on Intel UHD 770

References

  1. Verified by User:Expack3 on 22 May 2015
  2. Croc 2 - Widescreen Tutorial - YouTube - last accessed on May 2023