Dino Crisis 2
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| Developers | |
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| Capcom | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | August 20, 2002 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Cinematic camera |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Survival horror |
| Art styles | Realistic, Pre-rendered graphics |
| Themes | Contemporary, Horror |
| Series | Dino Crisis |
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| Dino Crisis | |
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| Dino Crisis | 2000 |
| Dino Crisis 2 | 2002 |
Dino Crisis 2 is a singleplayer cinematic camera survival horror game in the Dino Crisis series.
The game suffers from stability issues and sometimes will not boot unless a wrapper like dgVoodoo 2 is used.[1]
Gamepads are poorly supported or undetected; remapping them is hardly supported; all audio tracks are poorly compressed, loop at random points and generally sound very muffled or not normalized. These issues are resolved by Dino Crisis 2 Classic Rebirth.
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Retail | |
Simple disc check | |
Essential improvements
Dino Crisis 2 Classic Rebirth
- Requires Japanese SourceNext release.
- Replaces DirectDraw 7 with Direct3D 9, for improved compatibility with modern GPUs (and prevents rundll32.exe/GameUX from executing for no good reason).
- Replaces DirectInput 7.00 with new input methods such as XInput, RawInput, DirectInput 8.00, and native keyboard support.
- Replaces DirectSound with XAudio2.
- Replaces DirectShow video playback with a custom ffmpeg-based player that requires no codecs.
- Replaces buggy full screen mode with borderless window and fixes the aspect ratio to be locked to 4:3.
- Replaces broken context switching module to avoid crashes at boot or in other random spots.
- Fixes frame rate issue to provide smooth 20/30/60 fps support.
- Removes the need to install the game, making it portable to another PC just by coping the data.
- Restores missing, broken, or butchered graphical effects.
- Restores correct music loops, missing sound effects, and generally improves volume levels.
- Reworks the option screen in order to be able to fully remap controls, and change BGM/SFX volume levels. These options can also be changed in the config dialog that appears before the game boots and are applied globally, so they don’t change when a saved game is loaded.
- Website also offers links for higher-quality movies and SFX (see below).
High Quality Movies
- Contains upscaled and cleaned up videos.
High Quality SFX
- SFX data reconverted from PlayStation data, generally higher quality than what PC files use.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\dino2.cfg[Note 1] |
- The config file is encrypted.
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVE*.DAT[Note 1] |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | Backgrounds are pre-rendered | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | Always on top | ||
| 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. | ||
| High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| 60 FPS | Capped at 31 FPS during gameplay. Sub-screens run at 60 FPS. | ||
| 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | Non-customizable movement keys | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | 3 presets | |
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers |
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| PlayStation controllers |
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| Generic/other controllers |
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| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Digital movement supported | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | Only in the Japanese release during cutscenes | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| Japanese | Audio and half UI in English | |||
| Russian |
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 7 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 98, 2000, ME, XP | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 233 MHz | Intel Pentium II 350 MHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 MB (Compact Installation) | 350 MB (Typical Installation) |
| Video card (GPU) | 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0 compatible | 16 MB of VRAM |
| Other | 4x CD-ROM | |
Notes
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).