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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
Retail Gathering of Developers
Digital Triumph Studios
Release dates
Windows July 25, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 82
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic on HowLongToBeat
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic on IGDB
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic on MobyGames
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic on Wikipedia
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

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) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/61520/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

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
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/61520/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (61520) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  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