Settlers 2: 10th Anniversary Forum

With CXGames 8.0., shaders and shadows now work, making the game look so much better. The postFX settings, however, will cause the screen to turn black, although the GUI remains. These settings are probably related to lighting, which still seems to be problematic in most games.

As a Settlers 2 fan myself - I played the original game a lot with my brother years ago - I fixed a few issues in this game even though we don't officially support it. It may help to enable GLSL for this game in the registry - this game hits a limitation in the ARB shader backend that we haven't fixed yet.

Nope. Enabling GLSL not only did not allow me to use the PostFX setting, it actually caused some serious graphical anomalies. But that's okay; I can use every other setting at high, and the game plays flawlessly. Now, if only they had bothered to translate the expansion pack into English and release it in the US.

Clocknova wrote:

Nope. Enabling GLSL not only did not allow me to use the PostFX
setting, it actually caused some serious graphical anomalies. But
that's okay; I can use every other setting at high, and the game
plays flawlessly. Now, if only they had bothered to translate the
expansion pack into English and release it in the US.

Well you can always use Dosbox or the pc dosbox version under crossover. Works as it should be. search for dosbox in compatibility search for details.

Stefan Dösinger wrote:

As a Settlers 2 fan myself - I played the original game a lot with
my brother years ago - I fixed a few issues in this game even though
we don't officially support it. It may help to enable GLSL for this
game in the registry - this game hits a limitation in the ARB shader
backend that we haven't fixed yet.

Check out the the original Settlers 2 under CrossOver -- it's working quite well now (if you get the GOG.com version, anyway...)