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Attraction bug: In many maps you can't get all units that you should, like Dark Angels.

Threat level assessment bug: Rival Keepers assess all your armies as trivial and will only fight you with imps or goblins.

General Improvement Mod (GIM) fixes two of the most important bugs introduced in 1.7/GoG (Thank you Loobinex for highlighting these points):

This is especially important if you want a stable Multiplayer experience.

I also strongly recommend people install the General Improvement Mod (GIM) from the Keeper Klan website and play Dungeon Keeper II using the included v1.51 executable. It's a huge advancement over WineD3D or other hacky methods. The best part of dgVoodoo2 is how it allows you to force improvements to 3D rendering, such as native UHD 2160p graphics rendering, forced anisotropy and antialiasing. You can also revert the resolution back to 1024x768 from the main title screen if you prefer playing in its native 4:3 aspect ratio.Ĥ) IMPORTANT: Run the game from DKII.exe and not DKII-DX.exe Note that this causes the text within the PAUSE menu to be invisible whilst playing in either of these resolutions but this is not an issue if you have already configured the options exactly how you like. The intro files are located in \GOG Games\Dungeon Keeper 2\Data\Movies\ģ) OPTIONAL: Run this registry file to force Dungeon Keeper 2 to use a 1280x800 (16:10) or 1920x1080 (16:9) resolution so you have a wider viewing angle. You can also move the files into a different folder if you prefer. If you press ALT+Enter whilst in-game you can change from Fullscreen to Windowed mode.Ģ) OPTIONAL: If you experience crashes whilst loading the DKII executable, you may need to disable in-game intro movies by renaming BullfrogIntro.tgq and INTRO.TGQ to something else. This has been pre-set to run at the maximum native resolution and to also preserve the in-game aspect ratio. You would then need to manually apply my nf config file

Thank you to Loobinex for uploading to keeperklan on my behalf.Īlternatively you can download the official dgVoodoo2 release from Dege's website and extract the files from within /MS/x86/ directly into your Dungeon Keeper 2 folder. Extract the files from this archive into your game folder. basically any games relying on deprecated graphics API such as Direct Draw, Glide and DirectX 1-7.ġ) Install Dungeon Keeper 2 from GoG if you haven't already. The same applies universally to other games like NoX, Divine Divinity etc.

The only thing you need now is dgVoodoo2, which means that the GoG 1.7 HW patch (DKII-DX.exe) is technically redundant along with most of the old advice that can be found on this forum. It has been a while since I chimed in, so I would like to update everyone with the most current and recommended way to play Dungeon Keeper 2 on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.