Castles II: Siege and Conquest

Castles
Castles	1991
Castles II: Siege and Conquest	1992

Castles II: Siege and Conquest is a singleplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Castles series.

Key points

Using the "Save before quitting" feature may cause gameplay issues when the saves are loaded.^[3] Using this feature is not recommended.^[4]

General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Floppies or CD-ROM. Run in DOSBox.
Epic Games Store
GOG.com		Bundled with Castles. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.^[5]
Steam

Edit C2CD.BAT^{[citation needed]}
Go to the installation folder. Edit `C2CD.BAT`. Change `c2cdtool quickfades firsttime` to `c2cdtool quickfades startagain` Save your changes. The game will now go directly to the main menu.

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\OPTIONS.DAT
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}

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

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\*.GAM
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 only.
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 and 120+ FPS

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
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 feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music has a volume control; speech is on/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the `priority` background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Using the save before quitting feature may break saves, causing issues with gameplay when the saves are loaded.^[3]

To avoid this issue simply save the game manually, then quit and choose Don't Save when prompted.^[4]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).