PC enhancements · Drakan2PC

Everything here is optional. Windows has the full set; Linux and browser builds have some platform limits.

At a glance

Rynn in Surdana in the native Linux player — Native Linux build, Surdana.

Area	PS2	PC
Frame rate	30 FPS	30, 60 or uncapped
Resolution	Standard definition, 4:3	Up to 4K, widescreen
Textures	Original	HD texture pack generated from your disc, or live upscaling
Rendering	Original	Optional DLSS / DLAA, ray-traced water and shadows
Controls	DualShock	Mouse look, WASD, rebindable keys, XInput controllers
Bow	Original sight	Crosshair aiming: hold left mouse to aim, release to shoot
Combat	Weapon and shield	Optional dual wielding
Inventory	Inventory pages	Modern Tab inventory, M map, I inventory strip
Menus	Console menus	PC Settings (F1), modern title, pause and save screens
Movies	512×512	4× upscaled intro, ending and logo
Subtitles	Dialogue only	Intro and ending narration too
Saves	Memory card	F5 quicksave, F8 quickload, save previews

HD textures

Surdana: HD — Same frame, same input. Drag the handle to compare.

Surdana: Original — Same frame, same input. Drag the handle to compare.

The HD pack is generated on your PC from your own disc; see HD textures, video & subtitles.

Frame rate

Choose 30 (the original), 60 or Uncapped under PC Settings → Display. Game speed stays the same at every rate.

Same route at 30 FPS and uncapped. The video is 60 FPS, so the counter shows the real rate.

Ray tracing and DLSS

Modern water adds ray-traced reflections and waves, and ray-traced shadows add soft sun and light shadows with ambient occlusion. The Direct3D 11 renderer traces them in hardware on a DirectX Raytracing GPU; the default WebGPU renderer traces them in compute shaders on any GPU, at a lower resolution and frame rate. Renderer (Display page, applied after a restart) switches between the two on Windows.

Surdana pond: On — Ray-traced water and shadows (Windows, DXR GPU). Same frame, same save.

Surdana pond: Ray tracing off — Ray-traced water and shadows (Windows, DXR GPU). Same frame, same save.

On NVIDIA RTX cards, DLSS upscales the 3D world for a higher frame rate, and DLAA uses the same model purely for antialiasing.

Palace gate: DLAA — NVIDIA DLAA at internal scale 1, where its antialiasing is easiest to see. Same frame.

Palace gate: DLAA off — NVIDIA DLAA at internal scale 1, where its antialiasing is easiest to see. Same frame.

All of these are separate switches in Graphics & PC settings.

Mouse and keyboard

Mouse turns Rynn and tilts the camera directly, with no stick emulation. F10 releases the pointer.

Direct mouse look. The panel at the top right shows the mouse input.

Modern bow aiming: with a bow out, hold left mouse to draw and aim at the crosshair, release to shoot. Choose Classic for the original controls.

Modern bow aiming: hold the left button to draw and aim, release to shoot.

Dual wielding puts a second one-handed weapon in Rynn's left hand instead of a shield. Turn it on under PC Settings → Gameplay → Combat.

Rynn holding a one-handed weapon in each hand

Bindings and settings: Controls & combat.

Inventory, map and menus

Tab opens the modern inventory (Windows), M the full-screen map and I a quick inventory strip. Each can be switched back to the original screens independently.

Tab inventory: hover for details, Enter to equip, Q / E to switch tabs.

M map: objectives and marked places beside the map.

I strip: browse and equip without leaving the game.

Modern save browser with a Surdana save preview — Save browser with slot previews (Linux build).

Movies and subtitles

The intro, ending and logo movies can be replaced with 4× upscaled versions built from your disc. Intro and ending narration can show subtitles from local SRT files. Setup: extras guide.

A dragon illustration in the locally upscaled intro movie — Intro movie, upscaled 4× from the disc.

Intro narration with the added subtitle overlay — Intro narration with subtitles.

Playing it the original way

Choose 30 FPS, the Original inventory and menus and Classic bow aiming, turn off dual wielding and the graphics options, and set map_view = 0 and inventory_strip = 0 in drakan_input.ini.

Implementation notes

Settings schema · input defaults · saves · HD movies · subtitles · platforms