General information
- The Codex of Ultima Wisdom - A huge wiki for the series
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Source |
DRM |
Notes |
Keys |
OS |
Retail |
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Floppies or CD-ROM. |
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GOG.com |
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Gold Edition. Includes the Speech Pack add-on. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3] |
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Origin |
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Not available in some regions. Pre-packaged with DOSBox. |
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Version differences
- The Gold Edition is a complete edition which includes the Speech Pack add-on.
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Speech Pack |
Included in all Gold Edition releases (both retail and digital). |
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Essential improvements
Patches
The v2.12 Patch fixes various issues with the English, German and French floppy versions of the game. CD-ROM and digital versions are already patched.
Pentagram
- Pentagram allows running the game at higher resolutions and has other enhancements.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
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U8.INI
contains installation settings; in-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.
- Pentagram settings are in
pentagram.ini
, located in %APPDATA%\Pentagram\
on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Pentagram/
on OS X or ~/.pentagram/
on Linux.
Save game data location
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SGHEADER.DAT
contains save game names.
- Pentagram saves are in
%APPDATA%\Pentagram\u8-save\
on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Pentagram/u8-save/
on OS X or ~/.pentagram/u8-save/
on Linux.
Video settings
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)
Template:Video settings
Set Pentagram resolution[4]
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- Install Pentagram.
- Run Pentagram once to generate the necessary files.
- Go to the Pentagram game data folder.
- Open
pentagram.ini .
- Set
width and height to your actual output resolution.
- Set
scalex and scaley to the resolution to scale from (e.g. half of the output resolution).
- Save your changes.
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Input settings
Template:Input settings
Audio settings
Template:Audio settings
Localizations
- The Italian, Chinese, Korean and Polish retail versions only have the manuals translated, not the game itself.[5][6][7][8]
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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German |
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French |
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Spanish |
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Spanish retail only. Not available digitally. |
Japanese |
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Japanese retail only. Speech is in English.[9] |
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
DOS video modes |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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macOS (OS X) | |
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System requirements
DOS |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
5 |
6.2 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel 486 33 MHz
| Intel Pentium |
System memory (RAM) |
4 MB |
8 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
35 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
VGA graphics card | |
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
XP, Vista | |
Processor (CPU) |
1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) |
512 MB |
1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
45 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 7 compatible
| DirectX 9 compatible |
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
10.6.8 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+ |
System memory (RAM) |
1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
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Video card (GPU) |
64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
References