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Revision as of 10:33, 6 March 2022
Developers | |
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New World Computing | |
Publishers | |
Retail | 3DO |
Retail re-releases, digital | Ubisoft |
Engines | |
Outdoor environments | Horizon |
Indoor environments | Labyrinth |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 7, 2000 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time, Turn-based |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control, Point and select |
Genres | RPG |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | Might and Magic |
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- TELP subforum
- Extensive guide
- Celestial Heavens' subforum
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]; see Play without the CD for a workaround. | |||
GOG.com | ||||
Ubisoft Store | Included with Ubisoft+. |
Essential improvements
GrayFace MM8 Patch
The GrayFace MM8 Patch fixes many gameplay bugs, while adding optional new features.
Skip intro videos
Enable NoIntro setting[citation needed] |
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Play without the CD
Enable NoCD setting[citation needed] |
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Fix Audio stuttering
Allow the game to use more threads for audio. |
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Notes: This fixes audio stuttering during load screens when music is playing/dialog is playing, and Fixes the audio lag during Arcomage. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\New World Computing\Might and Magic Day of the Destroyer\1.0\[Note 2] |
- GrayFace configuration settings are stored in
<path-to-game>\mm8.ini
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Ubisoft Connect | [3] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | 640x480 only. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Toggle with F4; needs 16-bit color unless using the GrayFace MM8 Patch. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | 640x480 only. | ||
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 |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound, Music and Voice. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Most dialogue is text-only; voiced dialogue has no subtitles. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Red Book CD audio | On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | Czech localization for the M&M merge mod. | |||
French | Available in the GOG.com version or use French translation. | |||
French | [French localization for the M&M merge mod. https://www.celestialheavens.com/forum/10/16657] | |||
German | Available in the GOG.com version or use Might & Magic 8 (GOG) - Deutscher Sprachpatch. | |||
German | German localization for the M&M merge mod. | |||
Polish | Polish localization for the M&M merge mod. | |||
Russian | Russian localization for the M&M merge mod. There are two different options for the Russian localization, the version by Alexeevdenis and the version by Maslyonok. | |||
Spanish | Spanish localization for the M&M merge mod. | |||
Simplified Chinese | Retail only. | |||
Traditional Chinese | Retail only. |
Issues fixed
No music (GrayFace MM8 Patch)
- Using the GrayFace MM8 Patch with the
NoCD
option stops music playing so you will need to use MP3s instead.
Enable MP3 playback (digital distribution versions)[citation needed] |
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Rip the CD tracks (retail)[citation needed] |
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Other information
OpenMM8
- OpenMM8 is an open source reimplementation using the Unity engine. This project is incomplete.
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, NT 4.0 SP4 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 166 | Intel Pentium 200 |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 375 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA DirectX-compatible 1 MB of VRAM | PCI or 4 MB AGP video card 8 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details. - ↑ 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
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Cloud save support for games available on Ubisoft+ - last accessed on 2021-09-04