Cataclysm IP, because it is essentially Homeworld IP, is wholly owned by Gearbox Software. What has me tantalised is that I have seen a few reports of Gearbox people clamming up tighter than a drum when asked about Cataclysm at various conventions. I think something is in the wind. This category contains every ship that appeared in Homeworld: Cataclysm. You can filter these results using the subcategory list below. System Requirements. Pentium II 32MB of RAM 250MB HD Space (plus 50MB Permanent Swap File) 4MB PCI Video Card (16-bit color DirectX compatible) 16-bit DirectX compatible sound card 4X CD-ROM Drive Win-compatible mouse 32-bit ISP with 28.8+ kbps Modem or LAN required for multiplayer. For those of you who remember, Homeworld was touted (and rightly so) as one of the best looking. Homeworld (1999) is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. It was the first fully three-dimensional RTS game. Homeworld was the beginning of a series, followed by Homeworld: Cataclysm (2000) and Homeworld 2 (2003).

Homeworld 2

Developers
macOS (OS X)
Publishers
Original
OS X
Release dates
Windows	September 16, 2003
macOS (OS X)	September 21, 2004
Reception
Metacritic	83
IGDB	75

2Essential improvements 2.1Patches 3Game data 4Video 6Audio 7Network 8Issues unresolved 9Issues fixed 10Other information

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Homeworld
Homeworld	1999
Homeworld: Cataclysm	2000
Homeworld 2	2003
Homeworld Remastered Edition	2015
Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition	2015
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak	2016

Key points

Mod friendly

Small but dedicated community

General information

Relic Entertainment Official site

Encyclopedia Hiigara - A wiki for everything Homeworld related

Homeworld Shipyards - A fairly old but big Homeworld fan site

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail	SecuROM 5 DRM.
GOG.com	Homeworld Remastered Collection
Mac App Store	Homeworld Remastered Collection. Updated for compatibility with modern systems. Currently no online multiplayer or mod support.
Steam	Homeworld Remastered Collection

The Homeworld Remastered Collection contains Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Homeworld Remastered Edition and Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition.

Homeworld Cataclysm Macro

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Official[edit]

• Patch 1.1 - The latest official patch

Fan-made[edit]

• Patch 1.2 - This unofficial patch adds some added bug fixes and enhancements to the game. Note that it is largely incompatible with mods.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/244160/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>BinProfiles[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/244160/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video[edit]

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution	See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor	See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Windowed[edit]

Set in shortcut[citation needed]
Go to the shortcut properties. In the Target box add the line -windowed -w ### -h ###, substituting your resolution. For a borderless window use your desktop resolution and add -noborder to the end.

Input[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles	On by default.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play	6	GameSpy services have been shut down;[1]see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues unresolved[edit]

Marine frigate capture bug[edit]

Marine frigates are unable to capture enemy vessels. Once the capture-order has been completed, ship control is never transferred, even with repeated attempts.

This is not a bug. Relic disabled the ability to capture ships that build other ships in Single Player.

Issues fixed[edit]

Windows Vista/7 compatibility fix[edit]

Use the German cracked executable or completely disable DEP[2]

Choppy/laggy camera movement on Windows 7 fix[edit]

Enable Vsync via the PLAYERCFG.LUA file found in Homeworld2/Bin/Profiles/Profile1 by editing it with a simple text editor. This will force the game to enable Vsync if the game crashes when you select Vsync in the Options menu ingame.

Obsolete video card driver error message fix for modern Nvidia cards[edit]

Instructions
Go to <path-to-game>/BIN Edit driverConfig.lua and replace some content with this.

Black screen, then crash on startup for AMD cards[edit]

Replace the atioglxx.dll file
Download the updated atioglxx.dll file. Place it under <path-to-game>binrelease. Launch the game.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Middleware[edit]

Homeworld Cataclysm Windows 10

Middleware	Notes
Multiplayer	GameSpy

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 833 MHz AMD Athlon 833 MHz	Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.6 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon 7500 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible	Nvidia GeForce3 series ATI Radeon 8500 64 MB of VRAM

macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.9.5
Processor (CPU)	Intel 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 3870 Nvidia GeForce 640M Intel HD 4000 512 MB of VRAM

Notes

1. ↑ ^1.01.1File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/244160/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (244160) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
2. ↑When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

1. ↑Pricing | GameSpy Technology
2. ↑Homeworld 2 on Windows 7

The graphics engine from the original Homeworld is back, and it looks just as fine as before. Jacking the resolution up high and kicking to OpenGL mode makes for some gorgeous space-scapes, not to mention furious battles. No games have ever portrayed the epic space opera as well as Homeworld: Cataclysm and the original. You just can’t beat seeing a fleet of thirty ships “ghost in” and start to wail on you... although it’s certainly preferable for it to be the other way around.

That being said, the ship designs are pretty much all new in Cataclysm. At least, yours are. And as such, they look a little less alien-ish compared to the ones in the first game. Your ship, the Kuun-Lan, looks a little bit too much like the Nostromo in “Alien” for me. But as they’re both mining ships, I’ll cut it some slack. The sheer coolness of watching two ships link together more than makes up for some of the more mundane ship designs.

Homeworld Cataclysm Walkthrough

Weapons effects are still spectacular, and the jet trails are just as cool. And the resolutions... oh, the resolutions! Jacking a game up to 1024x768 with little to no slowdown makes a man proud. Sure, in the furious battles, it tends to lag a little. But isn’t that what Pause is for?

As for the sound, expect more of the same groovy style of music that you heard in the first Homeworld: epic space opera. Yum. Where’s my soundtrack disc? Er... Anyway, the special effects are, well, pretty special, with satisfying booms and bangs and whatnot. A real thumbs-up must be given to the voice acting, once again proving that it’s possible to make a game where the people don’t sound like rejects from the high school production of “Up the Down Staircase.” Props to the people who put that together.