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Knights of the Temple II

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Knights of the Temple II
Knights of the Temple II cover
Developers
Cauldron
Publishers
Retail Playlogic Entertainment
Retail TDK Mediactive
Digital TopWare Interactive
Release dates
Windows November 24, 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres ARPG
Art styles Realistic
Themes Europe, Fantasy, Middle East, Medieval
Series Knights of the Temple
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Knights of the Temple II on Wikipedia
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Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade 2004
Knights of the Temple II 2005

Knights of the Temple II is a singleplayer third-person ARPG game in the Knights of the Temple series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] [5] [6]
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Demo version is available here

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Move, delete or rename video files
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Video.
  2. Move, delete or rename cauldron.wlt, playlogic.wlt, tdk.wlt

Method 1: Extract this patch to the installation directory[citation needed]
Method 2: Hex editing[citation needed]
  1. Open KOTT2.exe with a hex editor.
  2. On offset 00045AE0 change 7B to EB and save.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\KOTT2.set[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 2]

Video

Issues fixed

Widescreen Resolution

Permanently patch
  1. Download Patch and extract to <path-to-game>
  2. Start the game, change game resolution to 640x480
  3. Its just stretch picture, its breaking aspect ratio.

Notes

If you want to edit it manually, download this file and follow the instructions.
More values available here

Windowed

Force windowed mode
  1. Download ThirteenAG's D3D9 wrapper and extract to <path-to-game>
  2. Open d3d9.ini, change ForceWindowedMode = 0 to 1

StarForce Protection Technology

Install FrontLine Drivers Update Tool
  1. Download StarForce Protection Update Tool SFUPDATE
  2. Run sfdrvup.exe and follow the displayed instructions
  3. When the computer turns on, run game as administrator

Notes

If you want to delete all the StarForce Protection components on the system:
  1. Download StarForce Protection Removal Tool SFREMOVE
  2. Run sfdrvrem.exe and follow the displayed instructions.

Cutscenes play too fast, and jumping doesn't work properly leading to random deaths

This is caused by extremely high non-Vsync framerates, especially if the framerate reaches 4 digits.
The ZOOM Platform release had this issue fixed on September 28, 2022.
Cap the framerate to 150 or less
Force Vsync

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Only for keyboard and controller (it is not working in modern OS and with X360 controller). Here is flawed guide made by RuThaN how to make game working on modern X360 controller and mouse + keyboard combo,[citation needed] maybe someone can improve it. You need Cursor Lock utility, InvertMouse utility and GLovePie script.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types
Tracked motion controllers

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate settings for sound and music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Download patch
Simplified Chinese
French
Download patch
German
Download patch
Italian
Download patch
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Fan translation, download
Spanish
Download patch

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

VR support

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 8500
Nvidia GeForce 3
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0b-compatible
Other DVD-ROM


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).

References