Heavy Gear II

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Heavy Gear II

Developers
	Activision
Linux	Loki Software
Publishers
	Activision
Engines
	Dark Side
Release dates
Windows	June 18, 1999
Linux	April 5, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Vehicle combat
Vehicles	Robot
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Heavy Gear

Heavy Gear
Heavy Gear	1997
Heavy Gear II	1999
Heavy Gear Assault	Likely cancelled
Heavy Gear III	TBA

Heavy Gear II is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person vehicle combat game in the Heavy Gear series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Oversized DRM (lead-out area shortened and used for data, to prevent most contemporary CD-RW drives from copying the method). Can join multiplayer games without disc

The game manual is available here

Demo

A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

Linux patches can be found here

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Linux

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows
Linux

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Possible with DxWnd.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Use dgVoodoo 2
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Use dgVoodoo 2
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped at 58 FPS.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		Interactive Around-Sound 2.0
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese				3D Gamer release.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play		8	Versus
Online play		8	Versus The official MPlayer.com service has been shut down.

Connection types

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

Issues fixed

A list with many problems and relative workaround can be found here

Everything renders inside out

Apply the Heavy Gear II culling fix

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Linux

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Multiplayer	MPlayer.com

System requirements

Windows

Linux

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95		98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz		Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	530 MB
Video card (GPU)	3D Hardware Accelerator 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible
Other	4X CD-ROM

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Kernel 2.2.x
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM OpenGL 1.0 compatible
Sound (audio device)	OSS-compatible sound card