Stronghold Crusader 2

Stronghold
Stronghold (2001)	2001
Stronghold Crusader	2002
Stronghold 2	2005
Stronghold Legends	2006
Stronghold Crusader Extreme	2008
Stronghold 3	2011
Stronghold Kingdoms	2012
Stronghold Crusader 2	2014

General information

Official website

Official forums

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Stronghold Wiki

Stronghold Heaven

Firefly support

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Developer website
Amazon.com		Standard or Special edition.
GamersGate
GOG.com		Standard or Special Edition.
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam		Standard or Special edition.

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Skip Intro^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>\assets\videos\
Delete or rename the intros folder.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Stronghold Crusader 2\Profiles\options.xml
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/232890/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Any emails used during the sign up prompt will be stored as plain text strings.

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Stronghold Crusader 2\Saved Games
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/232890/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Video settings.

Advanced video settings.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
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 settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio settings[edit]

The master volume setting may reset on a new startup even if set to a value of zero.

Most sounds may not actually ever be muted even while using the lowest possible values.

Audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, music, sound effects and speech.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Checkbox in the Audio options menu.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Italian
French
German
Spanish
Polish
Russian
Brazilian Portuguese

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed[edit]

Flickering shadows[edit]

Ambient Occlusion^{[citation needed]}

Set the Ambient Occlusion to Off.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
64-bit executable

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7, 8	XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo	Intel Core i5
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8800GT AMD Radeon HD 2900XT 512 MB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 AMD Radeon HD 5830 1 GB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^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>/232890/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (232890) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Minimum System Requirements | Stronghold Crusader 2

[Proton_path_note-2] 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>/232890/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (232890) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Minimum System Requirements | Stronghold Crusader 2

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[Note 1]

Developers

	Firefly Studios
Engines
	Vision^[1]
Release dates
Windows	September 22, 2014