Desperados 2 and Helldorado Fix

Desperados 2:Coopers Revenge and Helldorado crash fix for Windows

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

Search for:

 <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

[silentgameplays]

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]

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://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2807321974

[R2D2]

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.