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Black and White 2 Battle of the Gods Game Icon

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Black & White 2
Black & White 2 cover
Developers
Lionhead Studios
macOS (OS X) Robosoft Technologies
Publishers
Electronic Arts
OS X Feral Interactive
Release dates
Windows October 7, 2005
macOS (OS X) January 6, 2009[1]
Reception
Metacritic 75
Taxonomy
Series Black & White

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Black & White 2 on Wikipedia

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Black & White
Black & White 2001
Black & White 2 2005

Contents

  • 1 Availability
    • 1.1 DLC and expansion packs
  • 2 Essential improvements
    • 2.1 Patches
      • 2.1.1 v1.1 Patch
      • 2.1.2 v1.2 Patch
    • 2.2 Unofficial Patches
      • 2.2.1 v1.41 Unofficial Fan Patch
      • 2.2.2 Battle of the Gods Fan Patch 1.1 - only for the expansion
    • 2.3 Utilities
      • 2.3.1 Tiger Unlocker
      • 2.3.2 Wolf Model Fix
    • 2.4 Skip intro videos
  • 3 Game data
    • 3.1 Configuration file(s) location
    • 3.2 Save game data location
  • 4 Video
    • 4.1 Windowed
  • 5 Input
  • 6 Audio
    • 6.1 Localizations
  • 7 VR support
  • 8 Issues fixed
    • 8.1 Mouse lag
    • 8.2 Graphical glitches
  • 9 Other information
    • 9.1 API
  • 10 System requirements
  • 11 Notes
  • 12 References

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

General information

Black & White Community - A forum and downloads site for the series
Unofficial Discord server - For discussion and technical help

Availability [edit]

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
A demo for Windows is available here.
The Windows version of this game is not available digitally.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods Requires Black & White 2 to be installed.

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements [edit]

Patches [edit]

v1.1 Patch [edit]

Fixes some serious bugs and crashes.

v1.2 Patch [edit]

Patch v1.1 needs to be installed first.
The most notable change is the ability of skipping the tutorial lands, along with more bug and crash fixes.

Unofficial Patches [edit]

v1.41 Unofficial Fan Patch [edit]

Patch 1.2 is required.
Removes SafeDisc DRM, enabling the game to run on Windows Vista and later.
General fixes on modern systems to do with hardware detection limiting graphical options.

Battle of the Gods Fan Patch 1.1 - only for the expansion [edit]

Removes SafeDisc DRM, enabling the game to run on Windows Vista and later.
General fixes on modern systems to do with hardware detection limiting graphical options.

Utilities [edit]

Tiger Unlocker [edit]

Unlocks an exclusive creature available after creating a new game.

Wolf Model Fix [edit]

Fixes an issue with the Wolf's mesh.

Skip intro videos [edit]

Instructions [citation needed]
  • Find, delete or rename to something else the following files from <path-to-game>\Data\Splash 
Splash.tga splash_intel.tga

Game data [edit]

Configuration file(s) location [edit]

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Black & White 2\Settings.ini
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location [edit]

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Black & White 2\Profiles\
macOS (OS X)

Video [edit]

In-game general video settings.

In-game general video settings.

In-game advanced video settings.

In-game advanced video settings.

Windowed [edit]

After doing this use any borderless applications to play with no borders on fullscreen from here.
D3DWindower [citation needed]
  1. See D3DWindower for further instructions.
  2. Find <path-to-game>\white.exe.
  3. Go to Options, Common and check Use Background Resize.
  4. Run it with D3DWindower by pushing the fifth button.

  • Black & White 2 D3DWindower.png

Notes

Bloom has to be disabled in order for this to properly work.
Activating the emulation is not needed. Running the game directly through the launcher will work.
Run any borderless applications before running D3Dwindower or else the game will crash.

Input [edit]

In-game input settings.

In-game input settings.

Audio [edit]

In-game audio settings.

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support [4]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish Local retail version only.
Spanish

VR support [edit]

Issues fixed [edit]

Mouse lag [edit]

The mouse doesn't respond to slower movements and some tasks, such as building roads, become overly difficult.
Logitech fix [citation needed]
This will only work on newer Logitech mice and requires Logitech Gaming Software.
  1. Open Logitech Gaming Software.
  2. Click on the mouse at the bottom.
  3. Click on Customize pointer settings.
  4. Set the Report Rate to 125
Razer fix [citation needed]
This will only work on newer Razer mice and requires Razer Synapse Software.
  1. Open Razer Synapse Software.
  2. Click on the mouse at the bottom.
  3. Click on Performance settings.
  4. Set the Polling Rate to 125
SteelSeries Fix [citation needed]
This fix requires Steel Series Engine 3 Software.
  1. Open the Steel Series Engine 3 Software.
  2. Click on your mouse in the list.
  3. Find the Polling Rate section in the lower right of the window.
  4. Use the slider to set the Polling Rate to 125
Redragon Mouse Fix [citation needed]
This fix requires Redragon Gaming Mouse Software.
  1. Open the Redragon Gaming Mouse Software.
  2. Select the "Main" Category on the left side.
  3. Find the USB Polling Rate slider in the middle of the screen.
  4. Use the slider to set the Polling Rate to 125

Graphical glitches [edit]

On modern hardware parts of the terrain may disappear.
General fix [citation needed]
This has been tested to work on Windows 7 (64-bit).
Might cause in-game audio to lag or stutter briefly when keys are pressed on the keyboard.
  1. Right-click the Black & White 2 shortcut (leads to "white.exe").
  2. Select Properties.
  3. Go to the Compatibility tab.
  4. Set the shortcut to run in compatibility mode for "Windows 98 / Windows Me".
  5. Press OK.

Notes

Game data location may change to: %PUBLIC%\Documents\Black & White 2

Other information [edit]

API [edit]

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X) This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.

System requirements [edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible
Shader model 1.1 support		 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 2.0 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.4.8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz Intel
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5.1 GB
Video card (GPU) 3D accelerator
128 MB of VRAM
Intel GMA graphics cards are unsupported.

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Black & White 2 support page (Mac) - Feral Interactive
  2. ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  3. ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  4. ↑ Sound Blaster Gaming: Black & White 2 (retrieved)

Black and White 2 Battle of the Gods Game Icon

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