OMG Bring back me to my childhood.

Old game still the best.

I was little sad when I bought it and Can't start it , get the windows error 0xc0000022,

After reseach on the internet, I found a solution :

FIXED :

https://neosmart.net/wiki/0xc0000022/


Causes of this Error

This error has been known to occur as a result of one or more of the following:

Cause 1: Access rights are set incorrectly

The most common cause of this error is a Windows application that is unable to access the other files that are necessary for it to work.

Cause 2: System files are damaged or corrupt

The other common cause is a Windows system file that became corrupt because of a disk write error.

Fixing “0xc0000022” on Windows

Fix #1: Check for permission issues

If the 0xc0000022 is trigged by a specific application and you’re able to identify which application was it, check for its permission configuration to make sure they are set correctly.

To do so, follow these steps:

Right-click on the application that triggered the error. This can either be the shortcut on your Desktop or the .exe file of the application installed, available in My Computer.
Choose Properties
Go to the Security tab
Change permissions for all the Administrators, Power Users and System to Allow Full Control
Click Apply


Fix #2: Check for DLLs with accessibility issues

If the error is caused by a DLL file, you can identify which file triggered this error by installing and running the Process Monitor tool from Microsoft:

Download and run the Process Monitor tool
Run the application that triggered the 0xc0000022 error
Wait for the error to appear
Click File
Select Capture Events
Select Filter (or you can press the CTRL and L keys) to open Processs Monitor Filter
Filter out all the lines that don’t belong to the application that caused this error
Search for events with the result column as ACCESS DENIED
Once you’ve identified the DLL file with ACCESS DENIED, follow these steps:

Go to the folder where the application that caused this error is installed
Right-click on the DLL file
Select Properties
Go to the Security tab
Click Continue
Click Add
At Enter the object names to select, type users
Click Check Names and then OK
Set the access levels for the new added user to Read & Execute and Read access


MY DLL IN PROBLEM WAS dplayx.dll, I used Security tab to put me the Owner and put Users ALL ACCESS

And now my game start and I can play.

An excellent game.

It has been 17 years (!!!) since I last played, and I feel incredibly old, yet very happy, to be writing this.

Police Quest: SWAT 2 is one of the early old-timers to introduce tactical, real-time squad-based gameplay to PC gaming, and was first released by Yosemite Entertainment for Microsoft in 1998. Which means that I was 6 when this came out. 6!
The series spanning the original SWAT to SWAT 4, has been a rather broad, somewhat eclectic mix of genres including Strategy Adventure (SW 1), RTS (SW 2) and FP Tactical Shooter (SW 3/4) spanning separately across the four titles, but SWAT 2 remains my firm favourite.

The game features two separate campaign paths in which you control a SWAT team or infamous terrorist organisation 'The Five Eyes,' and go head-to-head, from a static isometric view of California, Los Angeles and the surrounding 'off the grid' area. In total there are 30 missions, 15 for each respective campaign and each storyline is independent of the other, though some scenarios are similar. Based on the individual mission requirements, you can select a team of officers or terrorists and negotiate, neutralise or manhandle your way to success.

The game is not without flaws, but many veteran players will look toward this title with rose tinted specs and forgive the overly complicated interface, micromanagement and janky artificial intelligence. I hope that you are able to experience and thoroughly enjoy the game as I did/am, and bask in all the sentimental energy that has collected between your wizened ears over the years.

It remains as one of my all-time favourite games, and I was delighted to find it available on Steam earlier this year as a nostalgic addition to the RTS section, and for all fans of tactical squad-based gameplay, and I am sure it will be appreciated and welcomed by new and older gamers alike.

its was better in my memories... but I can still say thank to this for giving me happy hours back in time :D (Still waiting for Swat 4 on Steam)

Police Quest: SWAT 2 is one of the great early pioneers of squad based tactical game play. Protect and Serve with one of the most elite SWAT teams in the country, the Los Angeles Police Department! Assemble your team with a wide range of tactical gear and prepare for your mission accordingly. Train and fine tune your operatives to become the most elite in the field. You will be able to deploy your teams based upon your mission needs. You will also be presented with the option to negotiate and try to resolve the crises as swiftly and safely as possible. Recon, assault, breach and even snipe to gain the advantages you need to neutralize the threat. Not only do you have the full arsenal of the L.A.P.D. SWAT team at your disposal, but can also wreck havoc as the infamous terrorist cell known as "The Five Eyes." As The Five Eyes, you will need to complete your mission objectives all while foiling L.A.P.D. SWAT. Police Quest: SWAT 2 is a welcomed nostalgic addition to Steam that will be appreciated by the new and old gamer of tactical squad game play.

This game is awesome. By modern standards some of the gameplay can be frustrating, but when you figure out the quirks of getting your officers to do what you want them to do it's a lot of fun. On the missions with badguys with booby traps it does take some strategizing to complete them without blowing your guys up.

People having trouble with the game being choppy - Shrink the size of the main game window and it will run wonderfully. This game is almost 20 years old. In this era developers were just making everything up as they went, and clearly they weren't thinking about how to code it to fill up a 1900x1200 screen efficiently. The way a 2D game worked in that era is basically putting countless little graphics up on the screen at once, and the game simply gets swamped.

One thing I'd like to see with a lot of these old games is some of the original software they used to create missions. It would be fun to go back in and edit the original missions to make them more difficult or complex, and create some new content. This game does have a map constructor but it's pretty pointless and you can't really create actual missions.

With some tweaks to the swat2.ini and https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/releases this patch, the game seems to work alright. Brings me back to my childhood and still stands up today as a great RTS. One of a kind!

Note: On high res monitors set your resolution to 1920x1080 if the game keeps crashing!

"There's a cop over here!"

Finally! Now release SWAT 4, please.

*reminiscing* The SWAT series game genre are really eclectic, isn't it? The first SWAT was a point and click adventure game, this second version is an RTS game, and the third and fourth game are FPS...

Used to play this as a kid, many eons ago. Its still great, but the UI is awful and wonky to work with.

---{ Graphics }---
[] Is this real life?
[] Awesome
[] Good
[] Average
[] Below Average
[] Hurts to look at
[X] 1990s

---{ Gameplay }---
[] Almost as good as Goldeneye 64 split screen slap only
[X] Very Entertaining
[] Decent
[] It's just gameplay
[] Kinda boring
[] Watch paint dry instead

---{ Audio }---
[] Almost as good as Halo
[] Is this Beethoven?
[X] Good
[] Not too bad
[] Awful
[] Why are my ears bleeding

---{ Audience }---
[] Kids
[X] Teens
[X] Adults
[] Old people

---{ PC Requirements }---
[X] Stone age
[] Modern Potato
[] Decent
[] Fast
[] I’m rich and possibly built my own PC
[] You’ll need a computer that costs 10x rent

---{ Difficulty }---
[] Smash your face on the keyboard and win
[] EZ Breezy
[X] Easy to learn / Hard to master
[] Challenge your brain
[] Masochist
[] This game made me want to die irl

---{ Grind }---
[X] None
[] Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
[] Average grind level
[] Too much grind
[] What am I, a farmer?

---{ Story }---
[] Whats a story?
[] Some lore
[X] Average
[] Loremaster
[] Who hurt these developers? *sob*

---{ Game Time }---
[] Finished before I even had to take a pee break
[X] Short
[] Average (5 inches)
[] Long
[] The Neverending Story

---{ Price }---
[] It's free!
[X] Low price
[] Average
[] Get if it’s on sale
[] Apologize to every tree you see for spending so much raw material on this

---{ Bugs }---
[] No bugs, Devs are doing their part, are you? Would you like to know more?
[X] Minor bugs
[] Can get annoying
[] What is this, Klendathu?


---{ ? / 10 }---
[] 1
[] 2
[] 3
[] 4
[] 5
[] 6
[] 7
[X] 8
[] 9
[] 10

I've played this game since it came out in 1998. I'm 32 years old and still play this game. That is how good it is.

Such a great game in the old days, but with modern PC and the devs/publishers not updating anything to be ran on modern PCs gives me a sad place in my heart. I'll leave the old memories of this game where they belong - good, excellent fun with tactical real-time gameplay. If I try to find fixes and all these other issues I might just start hating a old gem and that is unacceptable.

Live well Swat 2 and maybe Sierra will fix you for modern days.

If you do purchase it know that you'll have a lot of issues coming your way, but it's a good game. Enjoy!