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Silent Hunter II

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Silent Hunter II
Silent Hunter II cover
Developers
Ultimation
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows November 6, 2001
Reception
Metacritic 71
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Vehicle combat
Vehicles Naval/watercraft
Art styles Realistic
Themes World War II
Series Silent Hunter
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Silent Hunter
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Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic 2010

Silent Hunter II is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person vehicle combat game in the Silent Hunter series.

The game can connect in multiplayer to the game Destroyer Command for PvP fighting of submarines versus destroyers.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]; the installer is also DRM-protected
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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 Included with Ubisoft+.
Windows
SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via Ubisoft+.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is v1.1, and introduces multiplayer mode and bug fixes: English and German | Polish.

Game data

External general settings.
External general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ultimation\SilentHunterII[Note 2]
<path-to-game>\Sim\Config.ini[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Ubisoft Connect
[3]

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Maximum available resolution is 800x600.[4] Menu is always rendered at 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
The higher the frame rate, the more slower the camera sways.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

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

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects, music, voice audio and movie.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Fan - 1
French
Retail only.
German
Retail only; download for GOG.com release.
Polish
Retail only.

Issues fixed

Game runs too slow

V-Sync is broken when using the Ubisoft Connect version of the game, menus and gameplay run at very slow speeds without any fixes.
Use dgVoodoo2[5]

Network

Multiplayer requires patch 1.1.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
6
Online play
6 The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Windows dedicated server software included in <path-to-game>\Dedicated Server.
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 1040-1080, 1140-1190, 2010, 3000-3006
UDP 1040-1080, 1140-1190, 2010, 3000-3006
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7 [6]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes QuickTime for Windows Version 7; distributed with GOG.com version

System requirements

Windows[7]
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MHzIntel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D Video Card
16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible		32 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. ↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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