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Play Hexen II with the Hammer of Thyrion source port

Hexen II was originally made for Windows 95, but it is difficult to get the game working on modern PCs. Before you're going to spend time figuring out how, there's a simple solution. A source port is available for many operating systems. The project is called Hammer of Thyrion. We've tested with HoT-1.5.9 on a 64 bits Windows 10 PC. Works like a charm.

So, what's the fastest way to get the game working on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista or XP?

Basic needs

• A decent graphics card
• The original Hexen II game files pak0.pak and pak1.pak, from either the original CD or a Hexen II installation
• Don't you have the original Hexen II CD? Download the game.
• For the Portal of Praevus (PoP) mission, you additionaly need the pak3.pak game file from the original PoP CD
• The Hammer of Thyrion game files

Installation of Hammer of Thyrion

• Download Hammer of Thyrion files (in a zip file) either for 32 bits or 64 bits Windows systems.
• Copy the content of the zip file to a folder of choice, for example c:games. In this example you will end up with c:gameshexen2-1.5.x.
• Copy the Hexen II game files pak0.pak and pak1.pak into the data1 folder, in this example c:gameshexen2-1.5.xdata1. Location of the game files:
  
  • If you have the original CD, the game files are in the folder CD:INSTALLHEXEN2data1.
  • If you have an installed game, the game files are in the data1 folder.
• Update the game files to version 1.11 if necessary by double clicking the h2patch.exe application in the Hammer of Thyrion folder, in this example c:gameshexen2-1.5.xh2patch.exe.

Start and configure the game

• Start the game by double clicking glh2.exe in the Hammer of Thyrion folder, in this example c:gameshexen2-1.5.xglh2.exe.
• Change the screen resolution and color depth (options - video modes)
• Change the OpenGL settings (options - OpenGL features)

Hexen II Mission Pack: Portal of Praevus

Portal of Praevus can also be played with the Hammer of Thyrion source port. Installation is very simple:

• You have installed the Hexen II and Hammer of Thyrion files as described above
• Copy the pak3.pak file from the CD:InstallDataportals folder of the original installation CD, into the Portals folder of your Hexen II/Hammer of Thyrion installation folder, in this example c:gameshexen2-1.5.xportals.

To be able to play the mission pack, you'll have to use the -portals parameter when starting the glh2.exe file. For that, you need to create and edit a shortcut to the glh2.exe file:

• In this example, the game files are in the folder c:gameshexen2-1.5.x
• Right click on the glh2.exe file and choose create shortcut
• Right click on the created shortcut, choose rename, replace Shortcut with Portal of Praevus and press enter
• Right click again on the created shortcut and choose properties
• Edit the target field and add -portals, in this example the target will be c:gameshexen2-1.5.xglh2.exe -portals
  
• Click ok
• Start the game by double clicking the shortcut
• To play Portal of Praevus, choose New game
• To play the original Hexen II game, choose Old game

Unofficial sequel - Hexen: Edge of Chaos (Doom 3 mod)

For all you Hexen crazy people, there's very good news. The Hexen mania did not stop after Hexen II! You all know the sequel to Doom II; Doom 3. This is a game for Windows XP or later, so it won't be discussed here. But there's a mod (short for modification) available for Doom 3, which is called Hexen: Edge of Chaos. What do you need to play?

• Install Doom 3
• Update Doom 3 to version 1.3.1
• Download the Hexen: Edge of Chaos mod (at http://hexenmod.net)
• Copy the content of the downloaded zip file to the Doom 3 installation folder
• Start Doom 3, click on the Mods item in the main menu and choose Hexen: Edge of Chaos to play

It's definitely worth checking out. Check for more info and downloads the Hexen: Edge of Chaos website - http://hexenmod.net

Did your computer fail to open pak file? We explain what pak files are and recommend software that we know can open your pak files.

What is pak file?

Files with pak extension are traditionally used for package files. These files are used in many programs and especially in computer games. A typical .pak file can contain various resources used in the game, such as graphics or sounds. Can be extracted with specialized tools and sometimes with common archivers.

pak file description

File extension pak is used by some computer games for their resource archives.

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The .pak files are archives or compressed files, which contains various game files such as graphic files, sprites, game sounds, music, objects and another data, that are required in order to play the game.

Some utilities, often developed by fans, are able to extract the contents of such files. Probably the most used tool is Dragon UnPACker that is able to access the contents of game files from plethora of games.

Some pak files can also be simply be in common archive formats, such as rar, or zip, with their extension renamed to PAK.

Games reported to be using PAK format for some of their resource files:

• Blitzkrieg
• Blitzkrieg Rolling Thunder
• Quake 2
• Heretic 2
• Daikatana
• Half-Life
• Hexen 2
• Call of Juarez
• Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Far Cry
• Zanzarah
• The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
• Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate
• TrickStyle
• Maximus XV Abraham Strong - Space Mercenary
• Crysis
• Quake 1
• Heretic
• Lands of Lore
• Dune 2
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Simutrans
• and probably many other...

Software that will open pak file

Other pak file extensions

pak - CrazyTalk SFX data

Files with pak file extension can also occasionally be found as some kind of old packages for CrazyTalk facial animation software. Is not used in latest versions.

pak - Orgadata LogiKal data

A pak file extension is related to the Orgadata LogiKal and used for its data files.

pak - Simutrans object

Files with pak file suffix are related to the Simutrans computer game and used for its object data.

pak - ZLIB PAK archive

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A pak file extension is related to the PAK compressed archive files used by some archive tools for MS-DOS.