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Desperados 2 and Helldorado Fix
By silentgameplays
Desperados 2:Coopers Revenge and Helldorado crash fix for Windows
   
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12 Jun, 2020 @ 4:31am
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How to
1. Go to Control Panel>Programs>Programs and Features>Turn Windows Features on or off>Legacy Components>Enable Direct Play .NET 3.5 Framework support

2. Download and install free Borderless Gaming app from this repo:

https://github.com/silentgameplays/Desperados-2-and-Helldorado-Fix/

3. Install Game and try launching it will crash with "Unable to initialize video mode" error.

4. Find the settings.xml file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Desperados 2\data\configuration or/and C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Helldorado\data\configuration and edit it with notepad

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<Attribute name="ENGINE_FULLSCREEN" value="1" type="slong" />

<Attribute name="ENGINE_RESOLUTION_X" value="1024" type="string"/>

<Attribute name="ENGINE_RESOLUTION_Y" value="768" type="string"/>


Change these attributes to:

<Attribute name="ENGINE_FULLSCREEN" value="0" type="slong" />

<Attribute name="ENGINE_RESOLUTION_X" value="1920" type="slong"/>

<Attribute name="ENGINE_RESOLUTION_Y" value="1080" type="slong"/>

5. Launch Borderless Gaming

6. Add Desperados and/or Helldorado to the app:




7. Enjoy the games.

NB! For Linux there is no need for these workarounds both games work fine with Wine/Proton via Lutris/Steam

#Brought to you by silentgameplays
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RogueGentleman 8 Jul @ 8:09am 
New problem: Desperados 2 and Helldorado don't show up as options in the Borderless Gaming app.
RogueGentleman 8 Jul @ 8:07am 
I found a more current link to downloading Borderless Gaming: https://www.filecroco.com/download-borderless-gaming/download/
RogueGentleman 8 Jul @ 8:00am 
Also, the "settings.xml" file isn't in "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Desperados 2\data\configuration" it's one folder deeper inside the "game" folder.
silentgameplays  [author] 2 Apr @ 7:58am 
Fabio Elker Thank you for the great feedback! Already doing it here, need to update. Also for the failed to initialize error the Fullscreen needs to be set to 0 in the settings.xml, same for Helldorado and Borderless Gaming. Fun fact both games run on Linux with no issues.
Fabio Elker 28 Mar @ 2:40pm 
To play the game in fullscreen:

1-Go to \SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Desperados 2\data\configuration\game
1.1-Open the archive "settings"
1.2-Change the numbers of this codes for the numbers of YOUR resolution monitor computer(the numbers below in the code is just a example):
"ENGINE_RESOLUTION_X" value="1600" type="slong" />
"ENGINE_RESOLUTION_Y" value="900" type="slong" />
2-Install the BORDELESS GAMING https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases
3-Follow the steps to use the Bordeless Gaming and get Desperados 2 in fullscreen https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2807321974
R2D2 30 Jun, 2020 @ 8:23am 
Leaving

< Attribute name="ENGINE_RESOLUTION_X" value="1024" type="slong"/ >

< Attribute name="ENGINE_RESOLUTION_Y" value="768" type="slong"/ >

worked for me. Before "slong" was "sling" in the default file.