


The archive above contains a modified version of the game's executable which includes both the official patch (which fixes the game breaking "amazon bug" later on in the game) as well as MisterGrim's Vista patch. Download this archive and extract its contents into your Ecstatica II directory.Open the file called "CDPATH" in the game's directory with an unformatted text editor such as Notepad or Notepad++ and enter the directory where you copied the game to.Better choose a simple directory such as C:\GAMES\ECS2 because it may be impossible to specify a more complicated one in the next step. Instead of installing the game, copy the CD's content into a folder on your hard drive.While Ecstatica II refuses to get installed or run on most modern Windows systems there exists a simple way to make it work. Running Ecstatica II natively on Windows Vista/7/8/10 There are several ways to run Ecstatica II on modern systems, however. Unlike the original game, Ecstatica II is both a native DOS and Windows application but the DOS version will inevitably crash when run through DOSBox while the Windows version can by default not be properly installed or run on Windows Vista and upwards. This article is meant to help playing Ecstatica II on modern systems.
