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Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic

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Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic cover
Developers
Triumph Studios
Publishers
Gathering of Developers
Release dates
Windows July 25, 2003
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Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic on MobyGames
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic on Wikipedia
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Age of Wonders
Age of Wonders 1999
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Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic 2003
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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
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SecuROM 4 DRM.
Windows
Publisher website
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Set in launcher[citation needed]
  1. Open the launcher.
  2. Uncheck the box labelled "Show Intro".
  3. 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 settings

General settings.
General settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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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

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.
  1. Install dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Open dgVoodoo.conf and edit the following lines to say the following: FullScreenMode = false,ScalingMode = centered,WindowedAttributes = Borderless and AppControlledScreenMode = false.
  3. 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
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2 from here: http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html
  2. Open the archive you downloaded and extract dgVoodoo.conf and dgVoodooCpl.exe to the game's installation directory.
  3. 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  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).

References