Victoria 2 Cold War Enhancement

Victoria 2 Cold War Enhancement
Victoria 2 Nwo

Victoria II
Developers
macOS (OS X)
Publishers
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Release dates
Windows	August 13, 2010
macOS (OS X)	September 17, 2010

Cold War Enhancement Mod. Check Out This Mod. If you feel like expanding on the warfare aspect of Victoria 2, the Cold War Enhancement Mod is a great place to start. This also moves the focus to more modern times, CWEM focuses on the events of the Cold War fought between the USA and the Soviet Union.
CWE brings Victoria 2 into the Cold War era and beyond. This is the ultimate Cold War mod with a slew of special features such as ideological blocs, dynamic international institutions.

CWE (cold war enhancement mod) is the brighter sibling of NWO with less warmongering and more focus on the time period and industry in general. You should try HFM (historical flavor mod) if you want to get a more historical experience of basically what you did in HPM.

1Availability
2Essential improvements
3Game data
4Video settings
6Audio settings
7Network
8Issues fixed
9Other information
10Modifications

Victoria
Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun	2003
Victoria II	2010

Key points

Some bug fixes, improvements and overhauls are only available to owners of the expansions. (See Essential Improvements for details)

General information

Paradox Interactive Forums

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Amazon.com	Steam and Amazon versions, as well as retail are all available. Select which one you want from the box
Gamesplanet
GOG.com	Civil War Edition. Multiplayer is unavailable.
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Mac App Store
Steam

DLC and expansion packs

Version differences[edit]

The Civil War Edition includes the base game and A House Divided DLC.

Essential improvements[edit]

The Expansions add some extremely important features QoL changes like being able to manufacture war justifications against other states, managing rebellious movements, the ability to actually see your infamy score and a colonisation mechanic among other needed changes. ^[1]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Disable intro video^{[citation needed]}
Go to the installation folder. Delete or rename the `movies` folder.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%DocumentsParadox InteractiveVictoria 2
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42960/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Some configuration files are stored in <path-to-game>save games

Mod configuration files are stored in %USERPROFILE%DocumentsParadox InteractiveVictoria 2

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>save games^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42960/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Mod saves are stored in %USERPROFILE%DocumentsParadox InteractiveVictoria 2

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Can on occasion crash after an alt-tab.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Controlled by multisample level.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Anisotropic filtering (AF)[edit]

Enable anisotropic filtering^{[citation needed]}
Go to `%USERPROFILE%DocumentsParadox InteractiveVictoria 2` Open `settings.txt` Change `anisotropic_filtering = 0` to a value between 1 and 16

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion	Not applicable; entire game is driven with your mouse cursor.
Controller
Controller support	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls	Global/SFX/Music
Surround sound
Subtitles	No voiced audio.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian	Fan translation.

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Issues fixed[edit]

Crashing on Windows 8/XP: map cache[edit]

This crash is caused by map cache data from an old version downloading with the game on Steam.

Fix crash on Windows 8/XP^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>map` Delete the `cache` folder. Go to `%USERPROFILE%DocumentsParadox InteractiveVictoria 2map` Delete the `cache` folder. Restart Victoria II and let it regenerate the map cache.

Crashing on Windows XP: Incompatible lua5.1.dll & lua51.dll files[edit]

This crash is caused by the included LUA scripting DLLs being incompatible with Windows XP, which prevent the game from starting.

Replace files^{[citation needed]}
Download older LUA DLLs version `lua5_1_4_Win32_dll6_lib.zip`. Go to the installation folder. Rename or remove the original `lua5.1.dll` and `lua51.dll` files. Extract `lua5.1.dll` and `lua51.dll` from `lua5_1_4_Win32_dll6_lib.zip` to the installation folder. Notes Alternatively, the `lua5.1.dll` and `lua51.dll` from Hearts of Iron III can be used. Some versions of the game with the Heart of Darkness DLC installed may still crash in the middle of loading.

Replace files^{[citation needed]}

Download older LUA DLLs version lua5_1_4_Win32_dll6_lib.zip.
Go to the installation folder.
Rename or remove the original lua5.1.dll and lua51.dll files.
Extract lua5.1.dll and lua51.dll from lua5_1_4_Win32_dll6_lib.zip to the installation folder.

Notes

Alternatively, the lua5.1.dll and lua51.dll from Hearts of Iron III can be used.

Some versions of the game with the Heart of Darkness DLC installed may still crash in the middle of loading.

Victoria 2 Cold War Enhancement

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Modifications[edit]

Active modding community found in the official forums or moddb.

Some brief descriptions of mods can be found on the official wiki.

Most mods require both expansions and the beta 3.04 patch

Installing the beta patch on Steam
Open the games properties, switch to the betas tab and from there, select the 3.04 patch.

Historical Project Mod (HPM)[edit]

Requires Heart of Darkness DLC and beta 3.04

Adds significant historical flavor and features to the game, particularly through events and decisions

The Github wiki contains numerous minimods and addons

Install HPM
Download the latest version of HPM. Extract HPM into the `mod` folder in the installation folder. Click the check box next to the mod's name in the game launcher

Historical Flavour Mod (HFM)[edit]

Fork of an older HPM version, adds a significant amount of nations & decisions but is considered more limiting in freedom as the events can railroad the player in historical scenarios

Install HFM
Download the latest version of HFM. Extract HFM into the `mod` folder in the installation folder. Click the check box next to the mod's name in the game launcher

Cold War Enhancement Mod (CWE)[edit]

Victoria 2 Nwo

Two new starting dates,1946 & 1992. Countless new events, nations, decisions and mechanics

Based on New World Order (NWO)

Install CWE
Download the latest version of CWE through Moddb or Github. The Moddb link is out of date so Github should be preferable. Extract CWE into the `mod` folder in the installation folder. The optional music files can be found here and need to be extracted in the mods music folder (/mod/CWE/music/). Click the check box next to the mod's name in the game launcher

Open-V2[edit]

Open source re-implementation of the engine

Under development

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz AMD 3500+
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 8800 ATI Radeon X1900 or above

Notes

↑ ^1.0^1.1File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/42960/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (42960) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

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Victoria 2 Cold War Enhancement

Availability[edit]

DLC and expansion packs

Version differences[edit]

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

Save game data location[edit]

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video settings[edit]

Anisotropic filtering (AF)[edit]

Input settings[edit]

Audio settings[edit]

Localizations

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Issues fixed[edit]

Crashing on Windows 8/XP: map cache[edit]

Crashing on Windows XP: Incompatible lua5.1.dll & lua51.dll files[edit]

Victoria 2 Cold War Enhancement

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Modifications[edit]

Historical Project Mod (HPM)[edit]

Historical Flavour Mod (HFM)[edit]

Cold War Enhancement Mod (CWE)[edit]

Victoria 2 Nwo

Open-V2[edit]

System requirements[edit]

Notes

References