Originally developed by
Relic Entertainment
Developed for Linux by
Feral Interactive Limited
Published for Linux 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
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.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II has been fully tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and SteamOS 2.0. For the best gameplay experience, we recommend you use one of these distros.
The game should also work on other recent versions of Ubuntu, and may also work on other Linux distros; however, as the game has not been tested on these, it is possible that you will encounter performance and gameplay issues, and we do not currently offer support for other versions or distros.
The graphics card series and driver versions below have been tested, and these and higher series or versions will run the game without issues:
Nvidia
Series: 6xx
Driver version: 367.35
NOTE: Open-source Nvidia graphics drivers are not currently supported by Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II. Unfortunately, the current open-source Nvidia drivers do not support a number of the graphical features used in the game.
AMD
Series: 6xxx
Driver version: MESA 11.2
Intel
Series: Intel Iris Pro
Driver version: MESA 11.2
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.
Switching between a virtual terminal (by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6) and the X server (by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F7) while the game is running may cause the game to crash or the graphics to render incorrectly.
The problem will be fixed the next time you launch the game.
We do not recommend switching to a virtual terminal while running the game, as the problem is likely to occur each time you do so.
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.