Difference between revisions of "Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic"

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Age of Wonders
Age of Wonders	1999
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne	2002
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic	2003
Age of Wonders III	2014
Age of Wonders: Planetfall	2019
Age of Wonders 4	2023

General information

Official Website

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Age of Wonders 2 Heaven with Shadow Magic as well.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 4 DRM.
Publisher website

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Set in launcher^{[citation needed]}
Open the launcher. Uncheck the box labelled "Show Intro". Press OK.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/61520/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/61520/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		Hot seat
LAN play		8
Online play		8
Asynchronous multiplayer		Play by Email

Issues fixed

Can't run game in fullscreen on later versions of Windows

This problem shows up as Window being the only display option available.

In AoWSMSetup.exe compatibility properties enable "Reduced color mode" and set it to "16-bit (65536) color".

or

Install dgVoodoo 2.

Shaders don't work in Windowed mode

This problem has numerous effects, such as:

Red overlay that indicates areas pioneers can't build an outpost doesn't appear.

Red overlay that indicates targets that are out of range doesn't appear.

Zoom level is stuck at 100% and can't be changed.

Bloom effect around lights is not present.

Install dgVoodoo 2.
Open dgVoodoo.conf and edit the following lines to say the following: FullScreenMode = false,ScalingMode = centered,WindowedAttributes = Borderless and AppControlledScreenMode = false.
Open Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic Setup (AoWSMSetup.exe) and change the Display Mode option to your monitor's resolution. Also make sure that Use Direct3D is enabled.

Install dgVoodoo 2

dgVoodoo 2 translates DirectX 8 and earlier calls to DirectX 11, as well as providing options to manipulate a game's graphics and window.

The above fixes were tested with version 2.55.4.1

Download dgVoodoo 2 from here: http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html
Open the archive you downloaded and extract dgVoodoo.conf and dgVoodooCpl.exe to the game's installation directory.
Open the MS folder inside the archive and extract the 3 DLLs to the game's installation directory.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8
DirectDraw	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz	1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (61520) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ 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

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (61520) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[4] The app ID (61520) may differ in some cases.

[5] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[6] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[gamedir-2] 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).

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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 ===[[Glossary:Save game cloud syncing|Save game cloud syncing]]===
 {{Save game cloud syncing
-|discord                =
+|discord                   =
-|discord notes          =
+|discord notes             =
-|epic games store       =
+|epic games launcher       =
-|epic games store notes =
+|epic games launcher notes =
-|gog galaxy             = false
+|gog galaxy                = false
-|gog galaxy notes       =
+|gog galaxy notes          =
-|origin                 =
+|origin                    =
-|origin notes           =
+|origin notes              =
-|steam cloud            = false
+|steam cloud               = false
-|steam cloud notes      =
+|steam cloud notes         =
-|uplay                  =
+|ubisoft connect           =
-|uplay notes            =
+|ubisoft connect notes     =
-|xbox cloud             =
+|xbox cloud                =
-|xbox cloud notes       =
+|xbox cloud notes          =
 }}
-==Video settings==
+==Video==
 {{Image|age of wonders shadow magic settings.jpg|General settings.}}
-{{Video settings
+{{Video
 |wsgf link                  =
 |widescreen wsgf award      =
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 }}
-==Input settings==
+==Input==
-{{Input settings
+{{Input
 |key remap                 = false
 |key remap notes           =
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 }}
-==Audio settings==
+==Audio==
-{{Audio settings
+{{Audio
 |separate volume          = unknown
 |separate volume notes    =
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 * In AoWSMSetup.exe compatibility properties enable "Reduced color mode" and set it to "16-bit (65536) color".
 or
-* [[Age_of_Wonders:_Shadow_Magic#Install_dgVoodoo_2|Install dgVoodoo 2]].
+* [[Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic#Install dgVoodoo 2|Install dgVoodoo 2]].
 }}
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 {{--}} Bloom effect around lights is not present.
-# [[Age_of_Wonders:_Shadow_Magic#Install_dgVoodoo_2|Install dgVoodoo 2]].
+# [[Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic#Install dgVoodoo 2|Install dgVoodoo 2]].
 # Open <code>dgVoodoo.conf</code> and edit the following lines to say the following: <code>FullScreenMode = false</code>,<code>ScalingMode = centered</code>,<code>WindowedAttributes = Borderless</code> and <code>AppControlledScreenMode = false</code>.
 # Open <code>Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic Setup (AoWSMSetup.exe)</code> and change the <code>Display Mode</code> option to your monitor's resolution. Also make sure that <code>Use Direct3D</code> is enabled.

Developers

	Triumph Studios
Publishers
Retail	Gathering of Developers
Digital	Triumph Studios
Release dates
Windows	July 25, 2003
Reception
Metacritic	82