General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Essential improvements
Patches
The Ultima Underworld 2 Patch is needed for floppy disk versions. The CD-ROM and GOG.com versions are already fully patched. An unofficial General MIDI patch is available here.
Run in DOSBox (retail)
To run correctly in DOSBox change cycles=auto
to cycles=max
.
Game data
Save game data location
- The
SAVE1
, SAVE2
, SAVE3
and SAVE4
folders are save slots I-IV. SAVE0
is temporary storage, not a save.
- In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.
Video
- An alternate shades.dat is available here which will increase the overall brightness of the game without destroying it's atmosphere. Use it if you feel the game is too dark.
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
|
On/off only. |
Surround sound |
|
|
Subtitles |
|
Everything is text-only after the opening cutscene. |
Closed captions |
|
|
Mute on focus lost |
|
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
Localizations
- French, German, Korean and Polish retail versions only have the manuals translated; the game itself is still in English.
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
|
|
|
|
Spanish |
|
|
|
Fan translation, download. |
Issues fixed
The GOG.com version's sound is incorrectly configured by default, resulting in misplaced effects such as piano sounds for footsteps.[4]
Fix piano footsteps (Windows)[4]
|
- Go to
DATA in the installation folder.
- Edit
UW.CFG
- Replace
5 -1 -1 -1 sound with 2 7 220 1 sound
- Save your changes.
|
Fix piano footsteps (OS X)[citation needed]
|
- Go to Finder, Applications, Ultima Underworld 1+2.
- Right click Ultima Underworld 2 and choose Show Package Contents.
- Open
Contents
- Open
Resources
- Right click
Ultima Underworld 2.boxer and choose Show Package Contents.
- Open
C Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.harddisk
- Open
UNDEROM2
- Open
DATA
- Edit
UW.CFG with TextEdit (right click, Open With)
- Replace
5 -1 -1 -1 sound with 2 7 220 1 sound
- Save your changes.
|
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
DOS video modes |
|
|
Middleware
System requirements
DOS |
|
Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
DOS 3.3 or higher |
Processor (CPU) |
IBM or 100% compatible 386SX, 386 or 486 |
System memory (RAM) |
2 MB with Expanded Memory (EMS) |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
11 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
256-color VGA graphics |
Windows |
|
Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
XP, Vista | |
Processor (CPU) |
1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) |
512 MB |
1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
48 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 7 compatible
| DirectX 9 compatible |
macOS (OS X) |
|
Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+ |
System memory (RAM) |
1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
45 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to
<path-to-game>/cloud_saves/
even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves
folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
References