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General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
DLC and expansion packs
| Name |
Notes |
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| Caster of Magic |
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Essential improvements
Unofficial patch
- There is also an unofficial, community-driven patch, pushing the game version to 2.0. It's solely game-balancing and therefore is recommended for experienced players. You can find it here.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
Video
Input
Audio
| Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
| Separate volume controls |
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| Surround sound |
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| Subtitles |
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| Closed captions |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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| French |
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| German |
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Issues fixed
Poor performance
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Change video settings[citation needed]
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The game runs at standard VGA resolution and being a turn-based strategy, doesn't really require lots of horsepower. However, you may want to speed up its execution by trying out the following:
- Enable frameskip -- values of 1 or 2 should be perfectly acceptable.
- Disable Expanding Help option under Game -> Settings.
- Disable Movement Animations option under Game -> Settings.
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Disable music[citation needed]
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- Choose Game -> Settings and uncheck Background music and Event music.
- If that doesn't help, try running installation program and choosing No Sound for music playback device.
Notes
- The in-game music management is rather poor -- not every track is being used and it quickly becomes repetitive. If you want to listen to a soundtrack while playing the game, it can be easily obtained from the Internet in the MIDI format. Try playing it in the background using your favourite music player. This way you'll be able to listen to tracks, you'd normally wouldn't hear and your game will perform better.
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Other information
The game is rather poorly written. Even with the latest patch (1.31) it may unexpectedly crash.
Furthermore, the game may slow all by itself if there are many units on the map. This may lead to the game being unstable, so if you encounter such condition try killing enemy units (massively) and saving often. The game saves your progress by itself every turn, upon pressing the Next turn button. However, you can force it to save anytime by pushing F10.
Other information
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| DOS video modes |
VGA |
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System requirements
| DOS |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
5.0 |
6.22 |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel 386SX | |
| System memory (RAM) |
4 MB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
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| Video card (GPU) |
VGA | |
| Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
8, 10 | |
| Processor (CPU) |
1 GHz | |
| System memory (RAM) |
256 MB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
220 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 7 compatible
| DirectX 9 compatible |
| Linux |
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Minimum |
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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>/1146370/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1146370) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
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