Originally developed by
Relic Entertainment
Developed for Mac by
Feral Interactive Limited
Published for Mac by
Feral Interactive Limited
This document is intended to help you answer any questions that you may have about Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War® II
Yes, achievements are supported by Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II.
If you are signed in to Steam, your achievements will be visible to you in-game and also to other players through the Steam application.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II has two standalone expansions: Chaos Rising and Retribution. Additionally, Retribution's The Last Stand mode is available as a separate, standalone game. These expansions are available to purchase from the Steam store.
Chaos Rising includes:
Retribution includes:
The Last Stand is an online cooperative survival mode that features in Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution. Retribution's version of The Last Stand contains six heroes to choose from, including those from Chaos Rising and the base game.
Purchasing Retribution - The Last Stand separately will give you full access to this mode and all six available heroes from Retribution, but you will not have access to Retribution's single-player campaign or other multiplayer modes.
IMPORTANT: If you have already purchased Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War® II: Retribution, you do not need to purchase The Last Stand separately.
Mac and Linux players can play each other in online games, but neither can play with Windows players.
Sync errors occur when you attempt to play online multiplayer with players using a different version of the game. If you are playing Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, and attempt to play online multiplayer with Chaos Rising players, all participants will receive a sync error when the match begins, and be unable to continue.
Yes.
However, you must first enable the secondary click function on your mouse or trackpad. This will enable you to perform a right-click by clicking the right-hand side of your mouse or trackpad.
To do this, follow these instructions:
Open System Preferences ( Menu → System Preferences).
Select Mouse or Trackpad (depending on which you are using).
Select the Point & Click tab.
Check the Secondary Click checkbox.
Finger "gestures", which are used by Magic Mice and Trackpads to switch between windows and applications, can disrupt your game if used inadvertently.
To disable them, follow these instructions:
Open System Preferences ( Menu → System Preferences).
Click on Mouse or Trackpad (depending on which you are using).
Select the More Gestures tab.
Uncheck all the checkboxes.
By default, macOS uses the F keys to control items such as volume and brightness. To use an F key for a game command hold down the fn key, then press the F key you wish to use.
To automatically enable the F keys, follow these steps (depending on the version of macOS you are running):
Open System Settings ( Menu → System Settings).
Click on Keyboard.
Select the Keyboard Shortcuts button (macOS Ventura).
Click on Function Keys (macOS Ventura).
Turn on Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.
The F keys will now work without using the fn key.
Short Apple keyboards do not have Home (↖), End (↘), Page Up (⇞), Page Down (⇟) or Delete (⌦) keys.
In order to use game commands that are mapped to these keys, you will need to use the Function (fn) key as follows:
Home (↖) = Function (fn) key + Left Arrow (◀) key
End (↘) = Function (fn) key + Right Arrow (▶) key
Page Up (⇞) = Function (fn) key + Up Arrow (▲) key
Page Down (⇟) = Function (fn) key + Down Arrow (▼) key
Delete (⌦) = Function (fn) key + Backspace (←) key
The dock or notifications may occasionally appear while you are playing Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, or the desktop cursor may replace the game cursor. This can disrupt a game.
You can prevent them from occurring by checking the Hide the Dock (disables notifications) checkbox in the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II pre-game Options window. To do so, follow these steps:
From the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II pre-game Options window, select the Display tab.
Check the Hide the Dock (disables notifications) checkbox.
Yes.
To run Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II in windowed mode, follow these instructions:
From the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II pre-game Options window, select the Display tab.
Check the Run in a window checkbox.
Click the Play button. The game will start in windowed mode.
NOTE: Enabling windowed mode may decrease the game's performance.
Yes.
If you have a Retina display, you will be able to take advantage of the extra pixels by running Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II in native resolution. This means that the game will display one pixel for every pixel on your display.
To do this, follow these instructions:
From the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II pre-game Options window, select the Display tab.
Select the largest resolution from the Resolution drop-down menu to play the game in native Retina resolution.
Click the Play button. The game will start in native Retina resolution.
NOTE: In many cases, increasing your game's resolution will impact upon its performance.
By default, music playing in iTunes will be paused when you start playing Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II.
To turn this feature off, follow the steps below:
Double-click on the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II application icon. The pre-game Options window will appear.
Select the Extras tab.
Uncheck the Pause iTunes while playing Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II checkbox.
Select the Play button to start playing.
To turn this feature back on at a later date, simply check the Pause iTunes while playing Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II checkbox and then select the Play button.
Your saved games are stored in your game's preferences folder.
To open this folder, click the Open Preferences Folder button in the Support tab of the pre-game Options window.
To take screenshots while playing Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II you should use the following key command:
Command (⌘) + Shift (⇧) + P
When you press all three keys at once, a single image of the on-screen contents will be saved in the Feral Interactive folder in your computer's ~/Pictures folder (the "~" symbol refers to your home directory).
The JPEG image contains metadata in a string in the following format.
GameName/Version Number (OS Version; CPU Speed; Installed RAM; Video RAM; Current Graphics Card)
For example in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II the string might look a little like this:
Dawn of War II/1.0 (macOS 10.15; 3.0; 8.0; 4.0; AMD Radeon R9 M395X)
This information can be easily removed by exporting the screenshot into a different format using Preview or another image editing tool.
NOTE: None of the metadata stored can be used to identify the user.
No. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II has been tested with the basic formatting option for Mac OS X, which is HFS+. This system is not case-sensitive and identifies files by name without checking capitalization.
The capitalization of filenames is not consistent throughout the game. While this will not always prevent the game from running on case-sensitive file systems, it may lead to crashes and other unpredictable behaviour.
If you have to run a case-sensitive setup and you experience problems with Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, please install the game on a standard formatted partition or read/write disk image. In most cases this will allow you to play the game on your machine.
There are several factors which have an impact on the speed at which Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II runs. Please see the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Performance Tips section in the ReadMe for ways to increase the speed at which the game runs on your computer.
Please read the technical support information in the ReadMe; this tells you what to check and if necessary, how to contact Feral Technical Support with your issue.