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Homeworld 2 continues the epic struggle of the Hiigarans and their leader Karan S'jet. Many thought their hardships would end when they returned to Hiigara, yet fate has not been so kind to the Exiles. Now the Hiigarans face a new and bitter enemy, a renegade clan from the eastern fringes of the galaxy, who wield the power of the ancients. Homeworld 2 chronicles the valiant journey of the Mothership and its crew into the oldest regions of the galaxy to confront their new foe and discover the truth behind their exile.
What's New
Version 1.1.1:
- Fixed a crash that could happen on startup, especially while using Shapeshifter.
- Fixed a problem with multiplayer games over the internet. The game uses UDP ports 6074, and 5000 to 5100. Make sure these ports are open and forwarded correctly in your router/firewall.
- Added an option in the launcher to disable mouse scaling in the game. This option enabled by default, but it can your mouse to act slowly on some machines when the game exits. Disabling this option in the launcher will prevent such issues from happening, but could make the mouse in the game less responsive.
- Added an option in the launcher to scale mouse movement. Increasing the scale factor will make the mouse move faster, but it will also make the cursor less precise.
Version 1.1.1:
- Fixed a crash that could happen on startup, especially while using Shapeshifter.
- Fixed a problem with multiplayer games over the internet. The game uses UDP ports 6074, and 5000 to 5100. Make sure these ports are open and forwarded correctly in your router/firewall.
- Added an option in the launcher to disable mouse scaling in the game. This option enabled by default, but more...
Requirements
- PPC
- Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.
- 3D graphics accelerator card required (ATI Radeon 7500/nVidia GeForce 2 or better).
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| Downloads:15,834 |
| Version Downloads:10,002 |
| Type:Games : Strategy & War |
| License:Updater |
| Date:28 Oct 2004 |
| Platform:PPC |
| Price: $49.99 |
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Homeworld 2 continues the epic struggle of the Hiigarans and their leader Karan S'jet. Many thought their hardships would end when they returned to Hiigara, yet fate has not been so kind to the Exiles. Now the Hiigarans face a new and bitter enemy, a renegade clan from the eastern fringes of the galaxy, who wield the power of the ancients. Homeworld 2 chronicles the valiant journey of the Mothership and its crew into the oldest regions of the galaxy to confront their new foe and discover the truth behind their exile.
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Anonymous reviewed on 28 Oct 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 19 Oct 2004
" Mike,
I noticed the news item on your front page about Homeworld 2 performance with the GeForceFX 5200 Ultra. I thought you might like to pass along the info to your readers that the problem has already been fixed for the next NVIDIA driver release, which will be included with Apple's 10.3.6 Software Update (coming soon to a Mac near you).
Stephen B.
Lead SQA Engineer, Macintosh
NVIDIA "
Havn't been able to tell when 10.3.6 is likely to be out from my googling.
[1.0GHz 12" Powerbook] - same problem. Can't wait for the update the game looks really fun (Played Homeworld lots in the past: there is a version for X11, tho I havn't tried it).
Anonymous reviewed on 18 Oct 2004
" Mike,
I noticed the news item on your front page about Homeworld 2 performance with the GeForceFX 5200 Ultra. I thought you might like to pass along the info to your readers that the problem has already been fixed for the next NVIDIA driver release, which will be included with Apple's 10.3.6 Software Update (coming soon to a Mac near you).
Stephen B.
Lead SQA Engineer, Macintosh
NVIDIA "
Havn't been able to tell when 10.3.6 is likely to be out from my googling.
[1.0GHz 12" Powerbook] - same problem. Can't wait for the update the game looks really fun (Played Homeworld lots in the past: there is a version for X11, tho I havn't tried it).
Anonymous reviewed on 17 Oct 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 16 Oct 2004
every setting all the way down, 800x600. This game is unplayable. The mouse cursor tracking works about once every other second. This is on a machine that handles Unreal Tournament 2004 with most settings on maximum without incident. Now, it could just be that I have only 256 MB of RAM, but somehow I seriously doubt that.. the poster below has twice that, and a similarly specced machine, and both of us should be able to play this game!
Aspyr, what's wrong with your ports of late? Sim City 4 is awfully jumpy after reaching a certain city size, and now Homeworld seems unplayable if there's more than a single ship onscreen. This is awful--and too bad, because the game looks like lots of fun!
On some nVidia FX5200 video cards (including mobile chipsets) under Mac OS X 10.3.5, the game will run very slowly. This is a known nVidia driver issue and will be fixed by a future OS X update.
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Anonymous reviewed on 14 Oct 2004
I have all the settest to the lowest possible. Lowest resolution, all video settings off or on low. I got EXTREMELY choppy performance. Unplayable.
I just finished initializing my computer too, so there's no problem with some third party software.
I hope there's a fix to this, because I really want to play.
"Due to a bug in Apple's nVidia drivers, those Macs using FX 5200 based cards (like the new G5 iMac) will not be able to play this game with adequate framerates. A fix is supposed to be coming with Mac OS X 10.3.6"
"1185: Homeworld 2: Game crashes after launching
Issue
While launching Homeworld 2 after the initial setup screen, the game crashes unexpectedly
Discussion
This can happen if you are using ShapeShifter, and is easily bypassed by adding Homeworld 2 to ShapeShifter's exclusion list."
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Kballard reviewed on 12 Oct 2004