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Earthsiege 2

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Earthsiege 2
Earthsiege 2 cover
Developers
Dynamix
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Hi-Rez Studios
Release dates
Windows March 19, 1996
Windows 3.x March 19, 1996
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Vehicle combat
Vehicles Robot
Art styles Stylized
Themes Sci-fi
Series Metaltech
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Earthsiege 2 on Wikipedia
Metaltech
Metaltech: Earthsiege 1994
Metaltech: Battledrome 1994
Earthsiege 2 1996
Starsiege 1999
Tribes (series)

Earthsiege 2 is a singleplayer first-person and third-person vehicle combat game in the Metaltech series.

The game was re-released for free by Hi-Rez Studios in 2015.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows 3.x
Windows
Official website
DRM-free
Free download. Does not include music.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip 256 color warning

Set ES.EXE to run in 256 color mode

Modern Windows installer

The Sierrahelp Earthsiege 2 Installer automatically applies the latest patch, rips (or downloads) all of the music tracks in high quality MP3 to play and loop in-game properly, and adds a no-CD patch.

Works with the freeware release.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\DATA\*.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

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

Video

General settings (launcher).
General settings (launcher).
General settings (in-game).
General settings (in-game).

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only supports 320x240 and 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Set in options or toggle with Alt+ Enter.
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)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Issues fixed

"VSHELL.EXE - Entry Point Not Found" error on launch

Error message: "The procedure entry point FT_Thunk could not be located in the dynamic link library".
Delete Earthsiege 2 DDRAW.DLL[1]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename DDRAW.DLL.

"You don't have enough virtual memory to run Earthsiege II" error on launch

Use Windows 95 compatibility mode[1]

Set the game to run in Windows 95 compatibility mode.

Game refuses to run under Windows 10

See DirectDraw is broken[2]

Other information

API

Executable16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.

System requirements

Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) 486 DX2 66 Mhz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 16 MB


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).

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Verified by User:Garrett on 2016-04-27
  2. Verified by User:Expack3 on 2016-03-01