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Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation

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Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation
Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation cover
Developers
JoWood Vienna
Publishers
2004-2011 JoWood Productions
2011-2016 Nordic Games
2016-2020 THQ Nordic
2020-present HandyGames
Retail (North America) Cinemaware Marquee
Retail (Russia) Russobit-M
Release dates
Windows February 20, 2004
macOS (OS X) June 22, 2017
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Stealth
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Comedy
Series Neighbours from Hell
Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation on HowLongToBeat
Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation on MobyGames
Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation on Wikipedia
Neighbours from Hell
Neighbours from Hell 2003
Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation 2004
Neighbours Back from Hell 2020

Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation is a singleplayer side view adventure and stealth game in the Neighbours from Hell series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
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)
SecuROM DRM
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Packaged with Neighbours from Hell and Neighbours Back from Hell.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Packaged with Neighbours from Hell and Neighbours Back from Hell.
Windows
Steam
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Packaged with Neighbours from Hell and Neighbours Back from Hell.
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
DRM-free
Includes Neighbours from Hell.
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Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)
Demo is available here.

Essential improvements

Patches

An official SP2 Patch for the retail version is available here.

Restores missing audience sound effects from the initial release.
Cannot be applied to digital versions which are not patched. Use the unofficial SP2 Patch for Digital versions instead.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\JoWooD\NFH2\gameoptions.xml
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260770/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\JoWooD\NFH2\userdata.ngh
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260770/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 800x600 supported.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Edit configuration file and set fullscreen="false"
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Uncapped. Animations vinculated to low framerate.
Frame counter can be enabled by setting showfps="true" in the configuration file.
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
Overall, music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Gibberish for speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Retail only.
Czech
Retail only.
French
German
Hungarian
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game hangs at intro screen

Edit game configuration[1]
  1. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\JoWooD\NFH2\gameoptions.xml.
  2. Set backbuffer="1"

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 6.5b

Modding

The game data is stored in <path-to-game>\data\gamedata.bnd. This file is actually a ZIP archive with XML game data inside.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum[2] Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, Me
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 310 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/260770/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (260770) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. GOG.com Community Discussions - Windows 7 compatible? - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Verified by User:Orzelek303 on 2018-02-09
    Official README file.