Dune 2000
Dune 2000 is a 1998 strategy game developed by Intelligent Games and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment.
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Dune 2000 is a 1998 strategy game developed by Intelligent Games and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment.
The player needs to choose and command one of the three Houses and must fight for control of "mélange" (spice) on the planet Arrakis. The player harvests spice to earn "solaris", the in-game currency, by setting up spice harvesters, refineries, silos, and power grids. They must also deploy soldiers, armed vehicles, and defensive measures to protect their operations from rival Houses, while also being mindful of vicious sandworms and explosive "spice blooms". Dune 2000 features an interface and gameplay similar to Command & Conquer: Red Alert, where unlike in Dune II, the player can control more than one unit at a time.
Similar to most real-time strategy games, the game map initially starts with a black fog of war covering the entire map, with an exception to units' line of sight. As the units explore the map, the fog is removed for the duration of the mission, allowing the player to observe activity in those regions even if they do not have any units with line of sight to them. Like Dune II, the player may construct concrete before placing buildings. In Dune II, all buildings would deteriorate regardless, but the concrete foundations slowed the process. However, in Dune 2000, the buildings do not deteriorate over time when built in their entirety on concrete.
Although each house has many common units, such as infantry, Wind Traps, and Mobile Construction Vehicles, each House also has its own set of units, such as the Atreides Sonic Tank, the Ordos Deviator and the Harkonnen Devastator. Houses Harkonnen and Atreides share the Trike, while House Ordos has an upgraded version, the Raider. Like many games of the Westwood franchise, a player can gain access to other Houses' special units by capturing their factories. House Ordos can obtain the Missile Tank by ordering it from the Starport when it would otherwise be inaccessible. After patch 1.06, the Harkonnen can eventually train the Sardaukar, soldier-fanatics loyal to the Corrino Emperor with higher endurance and strength.
Emperor Corrino (Adrian Sparks) has issued a challenge that the House which can produce the most spice will control its source, the desert planet Dune, with no rules as to how the Houses can achieve this goal. Meanwhile, Lady Elara (Musetta Vander) of the Bene Gesserit and bound concubine to the Emperor, secretly takes the "commander" - the player - into one of the Heighliners, a person whose bloodline and future the Sisterhood had checked. According to Elara, they saw many visions of the commander dying — and only in one vision does the commander live and even rise to control massive armies and bring peace to Arrakis; thus, she and the Bene Gesserit have betrayed the Emperor's trust to bring about this possible future.
As in Dune II, the three main playable factions are House Atreides, House Harkonnen and House Ordos. There are also four non-playable subfactions: House Corrino, the Fremen, the Mercenaries and the Smugglers.
Dune 2000 is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
Go here, https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dune_2000 and download the installer ” D2KInst.zip ” which is down on the page, follow it’s instructions.
After your game is installed, scroll up and follow the ” Playing without the CD ” instructions.
Once that is done, you’ll have the game playable No-CD with the 1.06p update.
Go into your directory, run Dune2000config.exe and make your Resoloution 640×400 and display mode borderless. Higher resoloutions break the ingame maps and ui and borderless makes movies load faster and smoother.
And.. finally, one last, but most important, thing to do is update your ddraw.dll by going to https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat and downloading the latest one and replacing the one in your Dune 2000 directory.
Now launch the game and play, welcome back to Dune commander.
(Whoever is downvoting my posts on other games is rude, I am trying to help people because there is not alot of updated info on running old games so stop being a hasan fanboy).
Apart from that, everything works perfectly.