Heretic II on PC: Heretic2R

Heretic2R is a reverse-engineered source port of Heretic II (1998, Raven Software). Features include widescreen support with automatic HUD scaling, rendering framerate decoupled from the network packet sending rate (with a theoretical maximum of 1000 FPS), OGG music playback, most special effects updated at the rendering framerate instead of 20 FPS, improved map loading times, lots of cosmetic improvements and many bugfixes.

It requires Heretic II game data: you can overwrite the Heretic II binaries with the Heretic2R ones, or copy the “Heretic II\base” folder (excluding all .dll files) into the Heretic2R folder. Your copy must be updated to v1.06. GigaROM hosts neither the port nor the game; the download comes from the official page.

• Windows.
• The data from your copy of Heretic II, updated to version 1.06.

1. Download the latest release from the official page (“Go to official project” button).
2. Overwrite the Heretic II binaries with the Heretic2R ones or copy the “base” folder (excluding .dll files) into the Heretic2R folder.
3. Open Heretic2R and play.

• If your copy is not v1.06, models, textures and sounds will be missing.
• For now only for Windows.

If your computer does not meet the requirements, you do not have the exact version the port asks for, or you prefer the classic route, you can play the original with a console emulator: see emulators and its install and setup guide.