Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

The game just doesn't work on modern systems anymore. Even after spending over an hour researching and trying different fixes; compatibility modes, editing XML files, downloading patches, replacing files it remains unplayable. :(

1 found this helpful, 2026-07-10

Good game for its time with beautiful battles and high replayability

0 found this helpful, 2026-07-19

Honestly disgusting that this is being sold in this state. Thankfully, this guy's done the developers' jobs for them with this amazing guide which sorted things for me: if you're picking this up, just follow these steps before hitting play for the first time; you'll save yourself so much hassle and actually have a working game by the end. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3708276050 I didn't,...

0 found this helpful, 2026-07-10

A good game with a lot of lost potential. The battles are done beautifully and have a good replayability, but there are a good amount of bugs that makes the game a little bit annoying. If you decide to play the game, make sure you install "dgvoodoo2" and use the D3D8.dll. The game uses DirectX 8 and using DirectX9 on my setup made it do weird things.

0 found this helpful, 2026-07-03

in the past 5 hours of gameplay i have had at least 15 crashes mid battle causing a need to restart, usually when you are just about to win the battle, i play from the nostalgia of playing when it first came out, if you didnt play it back then i wouldnt recommend it because the frequency of crashes absolutely ruins the game

1 found this helpful, 2026-08-14