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Star Control II
Developers
Publishers
Release dates
DOS	November 30, 1992
Windows (DOSBox)	April 19, 2011^[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox)	November 29, 2012^[2]

2Game data
5Audio
6Network
7Other information

Star Control
Star Control	1990
Star Control II	1992
Star Control 3	1996
The Ur-Quan Masters	2002
Star Control: Origins	2018

Key points

Available for free as The Ur-Quan Masters, which includes various enhancements and runs natively on multiple platforms.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com	Also includes Star Control. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.^[3]
Steam	Also includes Star Control.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
DOS
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358920/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
DOS
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358920/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video[edit]

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	Toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter` (when using DOSBox).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)	For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian	Fan translation, download

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Other information[edit]

Command line arguments[edit]

Several commands are available. Use only one of each type.^[4]

Command	Description
/S:adlib	Adlib sound and music
/S:internal	Internal speaker sound and music
/S:silent	No sound and music
/S:disney1	Disney Sound Source on Parallel Port #1
/S:disney2	Disney Sound Source on Parallel Port #2
/S:lpt1	Covox Speech Thing or other sound peripheral on parallel port #1
/S:lpt2	Covox Speech Thing or other sound peripheral on parallel port #2
/S:sblaster	A Soundblaster
/S:pas	A Pro Audio Spectrum
/S:sm2	A Sound Master II
/S:asc	An ASC Media Master
/S:micro	Microsoft Windows
/S:gravis	Gravis Ultrasound
/G:bios	Loads default color palette from BIOS
/spartan	A 'no frills' mode to allow faster play on slower machines

API[edit]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
macOS (OS X)

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB

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