Ultima VII: The Black Gate is a singleplayer RPG game in the Ultima series.
It is recommended to use Exult for various enhancements.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
- The manual is needed to answer copy protection questions (see
answers.pdf
for the GOG.com version).
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Forge of Virtue |
Included with complete edition. |
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Essential improvements
Patches
The Version 3.4 Patch updates the English floppy version of the game. CD-ROM and digital versions are already patched.
Exult
- Use Exult to play in higher resolution, add new features, use mods, etc.
Set up Exult (Windows)[citation needed]
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- Download and install the latest Windows snapshot.
- The installer will prompt for the installation folders; for the GOG.com version these are
ULTIMA7 for The Black Gate and SERPENT for Serpent Isle.
- Optionally, install the All-In-One Audio Data for enhanced sounds and music.
- Run Exult from the Start screen/Start menu and both games will now be playable.
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Set up Exult (OS X)[citation needed]
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- Download and install the latest OS X snapshot.
- Optionally, install the All-In-One Audio Data for enhanced sounds and music.
- Go to the game installation folder and copy the data files.
- For retail versions this will be wherever you installed it to.
- For GOG.com, open Finder, open the Go menu, choose Go To Folder, then go to
$HOME/Applications/Ultima 7 The Complete Edition.app/Contents/Resources/Ultima 7 The Complete Edition.boxer/C.harddisk/U7/ .
- Open Finder, open the Go menu, choose Go To Folder, then go to
$HOME/Library/Application Support .
- Make a folder called
Exult .
- Paste the Black Gate and Serpent Isle folders here.
- Rename the Black Gate folder to
blackgate and the Serpent Isle folder to serpentisle .
- Run Exult from Applications and both games will now be playable.
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Skip intro videos
Use Exult[4]
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Use Exult (set in Misc Options).
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Game data
Save game data location
- Saves are
GAME**.U7
; DOS settings are stored in the save file rather than shared.
- Exult saves and settings are in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Exult
on Windows, $HOME/Library/Application Support/Exult
on OS X, $HOME/.exult
on Linux.
Video
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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On/off only. Note that if you are run into sound issues, the game may decide to toggle its music/speech/sfx options in the Save menu 'off', frustrating further debugging attempts. |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Speech from NPCs is text-based. Voices from The Guardian are not normally subtitled (he gives minor hints). If no sound card is detected or "Speech" is toggled off on the Save menu, the Guardian speech in the intro and popups have subtitles. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Use Exult. |
Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
- Chinese, Polish and Korean retail versions only have the manuals translated; the game itself is still in English.[5][6][7]
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
DOS video modes |
MCGA, VGA |
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System requirements
DOS |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
3.3 |
5.0 |
Processor (CPU) |
386SX
| 486 |
System memory (RAM) |
2 MB |
4 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
21 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
MCGA
| VGA |
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
- ↑ 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