Before Hotline Miami 2 was released, the official system requirements for the game listed Windows XP as being compatible with the game. Though at the time of release, it turned out that posted requirements in fact came from the first installment of Hotline Miami. As a result, the game cannot run on XP and users who preordered the came are not able to play now.
I decided to make some quick research around the issue and it turned out re-adding XP support is not terribly hard. This unofficial patch aims to make the game playable on XP.
NOTE: As of 17.03, this patch has been officially endorsed by Abstraction Games!
- Visual Studio 2010 or newer
When the game runs in DirectX 9 mode, it crashes on device lost. To minimize the negative impact of this issue, the game is now forced to run in borderless windowed mode, so it still appears to be fullscreen, but cannot be minimized like regular fullscreen applications. The game will STILL crash when applying changes to any Graphics settings. Don't worry, despite the crash, all the changes got applied! When you launch the game again, the settings will be changed.
As the following patch is open source, it's under the Silent's License. It means that the source code is for learning purposes. You may only use it for your own projects but NOT to recreate or build on the original work.