Ancients II: Approaching Evil

Ancients II: Approaching Evil

Developers
	Farr-Ware Software
Publishers
	Epic Games
	B&N Companies
Release dates
DOS	1994
Taxonomy
Series	Ancients

Ancients
Ancients 1: Death Watch	1991
Ancients II: Approaching Evil	1994

Key points

Characters can be imported from Ancients 1: Death Watch (see Import characters).

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Essential improvements

Import characters

Characters can be imported from Ancients 1: Death Watch.

Copy save files
If the characters are in the party run Ancients 1 and drop the characters from the party (this will update each character's *.KAR file). Copy the Ancients 1 *.KAR files into the Ancients II installation folder. Run Ancients II and add the characters from the Character Options menu.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SETUP.DTA

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SAVEGAME.DTA <path-to-game>\*.KAR

SAVEGAME.DTA contains saved progress.

*.KAR files contain saved characters (these files are only updated when a character is dropped from the current party).

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		For DOSBox toggle with Alt+↵ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Change with F5 during gameplay (listed as "delay").
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	VGA

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)	286
System memory (RAM)	640K
Hard disk drive (HDD)