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Dawn of War II - Technical Guide

By SoulEater

Summary:
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Originally a technical guide when I had it in mind. After that, it grew and I decided to add anything DOW2 related, so its an all-in-one guide for players to refer to.

Please share, star it as your favourite and give awards. It helps to spread the word for this guide so it may help other players fix their problems to enjoy this underrated 40k RTS. All solutions credited to whoever found them out originally. Thank you, all!

Note: Some fixes may work for DOW2 Vanilla and Chaos Rising, but haven't been tested.
Note II: This will redirect / link to my original guide for Retribution.
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Category: Achievements, Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Redirect to my Guide

Campaign Mod Recommendation

Vanilla / CR QoL Mod Recommendations

Dawn of War II Specific Guides

Chaos Rising Specific Guides

Comments

Redirect to my Guide

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2964024221
This will redirect to my guide, since many people have a hard time finding it!

Most of the fixes are applicable for Dawn of War II and its expansion, Chaos Rising!

Additionally, if you are unclear what the Dawn of War II Anniversary Edition is about, click on the guide above and scroll down a bit. There's a note on the Dawn of War II Anniversary Edition and what it is all about!

Cheers and hope this helps!

Campaign Mod Recommendation

I highly recommend this campaign mod by T1SLam or Backstab President and KnowingOwinga

Ultimate Exterminatus
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-exterminatus
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-exterminatus/features/detailed-description

Eternal War
https://www.moddb.com/mods/eternal-war
https://www.moddb.com/mods/eternal-war/features/eternal-war

TLDR:

All squad deployment (yes, you heard me! All SQUADS and an extra squad).
Reworked techtree and skills.
New enemies and wargear
New unlimited mode!
... and more!!

Vanilla / CR QoL Mod Recommendations

DOW2 Vanilla / CR Mods:
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DROP AND PLAY MODS:
Instructions: Just drop into "Mods" folder (make one if its not there) in the "GameAssets" folder, and its ready to use / play!
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Armaments of War - Redux (Visual Mod Collection) => Compatible with DOW2 Vanilla/CR/Retribution.
https://www.nexusmods.com/dawnofwar2retribution/mods/44

DOW2 Cursors
https://www.moddb.com/addons/cursors-dawn-of-war-1-styles-for-dawn-of-war-ii

SweetFX Preset for DOW2 => Compatible with DOW2 Vanilla/CR
https://www.nexusmods.com/dawnofwar2retribution/mods/60

Reduce DOW2 Vanilla and CR Bloom or Shiny-ness ala Retribution style
https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40000dawnofwarII/mods/18/

DOW2 Vanilla / Chaos Rising / Retribution High Resolution UI Scaling Patch:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/dow2-modding-tools-game-fixes/downloads/dow2-high-resolution-ui-scaling-patch-vanilla-cr-and-retribution
This patch fixes the UI not scaling properly at high resolution. Determined that DOW2..exe sets a limit on the UI scaling, and this fixed was made to address it.

SPECIFIC MODS:
Instructions: Follow this mod's setup instructions in order to use it. These mods are usually not compatible with each other.
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Ultimate Exterminatus
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-exterminatus

Eternal War
https://www.moddb.com/mods/eternal-war

Campaign Skill Reset
https://www.moddb.com/mods/campaign-skill-reset/downloads/skillreset

Campaign Max Level Increase
https://www.moddb.com/mods/campaign-max-level-increase/downloads/max-level-101

4 skill points per level & 100% increased loot
https://www.moddb.com/mods/4-skill-points-per-level-100-increased-loot/downloads/4-skill-points-per-level-100-increased-loot

Dawn of War II Specific Guides

Just adding them here. All credits goes to their original authors.
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Campaign Tips and Strategies
Important! Read before starting the campaign!
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=657012635

Tips/Tricks (Imported Base DoW II items etc.)
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2755600008

How to use units in Dawn of War 2 campaign
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=202215177

Defense For Dummies: Spawn Camping
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=532544489

PRIMARCH DIFFICULTY

Dawn of War II: Campaign on Primarch difficulty
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1870867853

Cracking open Primarch
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3204884280

ACHIEVEMENTS & MISC

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Achievement Guide
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2256396792

Solution for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II campaign achievements to unlock! 🏆
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=297941661

Campaign Score Reference Sheet (Legend Achievement)
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=181038579

Chaos Rising Specific Guides

Campaign:
Chaos Rising: Morality, Corruption & Redemption
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=663875730

Traitor Wargear Rewards
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1318306267

Cracking Open Primarch Difficulty (Chaos Rising)
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3349637461&tscn=1729382017

Best Builds for PRIMARCH Difficulty
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1331555706
Achievements:
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising Achievement Guide
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2257405779

11 Comments

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SoulEater [author] 3 Dec, 2024 @ 4:35pm

@repinscourage, gotcha. Idk why I didn't get what AE was. No clue. I heard AE messed up a lot of things for people. The best solution is to uninstall, wipe out your DOW2/CR configs (keep the saves), then reinstall and apply the fixes. Should work to solve the error.

The laststand.sav file is probably in here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<your Steam user number>\56400\remote

Check there!

repinscourge 3 Dec, 2024 @ 6:37am

AE - shortened the Anniversary Edition. Before this I played against the AI for quite a long time and I had no problems.

Asked a friend, he said that he has a vanilla version without mods. Guess I have all my saves in the Steam cloud because I can't find the "laststand.sav" file on my PC.

In a few days I'll try installing the game on a non-system drive, apply a couple of fixes for the sound bug and see if the multiplayer works for me or not.

For some reason, I didn’t see such errors in Retribution.

SoulEater [author] 2 Dec, 2024 @ 10:32pm

@repinscourage, hard to tell what sorta bug it is. It feels like a soundbug crash.

The "unknown joinEvent error" happens when there are different versions between players that happen or just some bad internet connection.

Either way, my advice is to save your game's LS progress (laststand.sav) and then make a clean install.

What is AE?? I'm not familiar with that term.

repinscourge 2 Dec, 2024 @ 10:52am

After connecting I 1) Saw a black screen or a static picture of my Orc base and heard music. 2) When the game freeze ended it immediately crashed.

I'm also received "unknown joinEvent error" along with bug what game can't recognize my Last Stand progress. Just wanted to play with a friend online.

Could this be related to the fact that I installed AE on the system drive C in the Program Files/Steam folder?

SoulEater [author] 2 Dec, 2024 @ 8:43am

@repinscourage, did you get the soundbug? Either that, or it sounds like you eventually ran out of memory.

repinscourge 2 Dec, 2024 @ 7:15am

Hi. Today I tried to play Coop campaign and then 1-on-1. In both online matches game lagged at start and then crashes to desktop. I've tried to read "warnings" logs in /Logfiles folder, but it doesn't have clear reason about this crash.

SoulEater [author] 3 Nov, 2024 @ 1:14am

@SurfMDR, I have no idea tbh. I've heard some people say that they start task manager when that happens and the game starts.

SurfMDR 2 Nov, 2024 @ 9:32am

and I have to end up force closing the app

SurfMDR 2 Nov, 2024 @ 9:31am

would you know why I start the game it launches but doesnt actually fully launch
everything says its running and it up on my taskbar but nothing ever pops up on my screen

SoulEater [author] 5 Oct, 2024 @ 3:41am

@gatoconak, could you provide more info, hard to pin down what's the issue? Alternatively, you should make sure that you're not running other programs that could affect internet connection heavily. Another way is to do the port-forwarding option, that helps.

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