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The Wheel of Time

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The Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time cover
Developers
Legend Entertainment
Publishers
GT Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 1
Release dates
Windows October 31, 1999
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS
Themes Fantasy
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The Wheel of Time on Wikipedia
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Key points

Although game is playable without wrappers like DgVoodoo2 (through Direct3D), this will cause some graphics to flicker and see through clothing (See use nGlide or DirectX 11 Renderer to fix).
Very small but active community.
Modification of the engine's advanced options in D3D rendering mode can cause the game to crash. (See this workaround for an alternative method to change them).
Might need UnSafeDisc.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].[3]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
The game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch (v333b) for the German, US, and International releases is available here.

Peixoto's patch

Fixes FMV playback
Gets Direct3D mode working correctly
Forced resolution allows high resolution without shrinking the menus and HUD
Fixes the non-working brightness control

Use nGlide

Use nGlide[citation needed]
Resolution settings are more restricted with this.
  1. Install nGlide.
  2. Create a shortcut of WoT.exe located in <path-to-game>\System.
  3. Right click on the shortcut and click properties.
  4. In the Target section at the end, add a space and add -changevideo.
  5. Click Apply and OK, and launch the game with the shortcut.
  6. In the configuration window that pops up, select 3dfx Glide for Windows.
  7. Press next a couple of times, then click run.

Missing Media Files In The Game's Directory

Move Media Files from Disc to Hard Drive.[citation needed]
Not all the files get moved from the disc, even after a full installation.
This does not bypass DRM, disc will still be needed for the check.
  1. Insert Disc 2.
  2. Copy the Music and Movies Folders.
  3. Navigate to <path-to-game> and paste the folders there.
  4. Navigate to <path-to-game>\System and open WoT.ini with a text editor.
  5. Search for MoviePath and replace the drive letter with .. (two dots) (i.e, Instead of G:\Movies, it should be ..\Movies
  6. Search for \Music and do the same as step 5 except keep *.mp3 at the end.

Skip intro movies

Rename movie files.
  1. Follow these instuctions to move files off the disk.
  2. Go to <path-to-game>\Movies and delete or rename gtlogo.mov and logo.mov.

Unreal Engine DirectX 11 Renderer

A fork of Kentie's Direct3D 10 renderer that adds more graphical features.
Run games at HD resolution.
Improved lighting.
Adds ambient occlusion, screen-space reflections and higher quality HDR post-processing.
Places a temporary watermark in the bottom right, and copies the developers PayPal link to your clipboard. Follow these instructions to disable the watermark and remove the PayPal link from being inserted into your clipboard.
Disable DirectX 11 renderer's PayPal watermark and disable the link from being copied into the clipboard.
  1. Go to Hardware.
  2. Select Advanced Options.
  3. In a new window open Rendering section.
  4. Open Direct3D 11 support section.
  5. Set SupportMETextEnabled to False.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\System\WoT.ini[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2]

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Versus
Online play
Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[4] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues unresolved

Level editor is not starting

This does not interfere with the main game at all.

The ability to make custom maps is currently not possible on modern systems due to the editor being unable to start.

A partially working fix can be found here (WoTedFix3.zip at the bottom), but the editor still starts and immediately crashes.[5]

Issues fixed

Technical Issues

Run the game in 3DFX mode after installing nGlide if D3D mode is giving error messages.

Cutscene Fix

Without this fix cutscenes do not play, or play but stutter to the point of where they are unwatchable.
Cutscene Fix[6]
  1. Patch the game to the latest version.
  2. Download this DDraw Wrapper
  3. Put it in <path-to-game>\System

Crash After Changing Advanced Settings

All those settings can also be accessed by opening <path-to-game>\system\WoT.ini with a text editor.

Brightness Can't Be Adjusted/Game Is Too Dark

Turn off Multitexture[citation needed]
Only if the game is running under Direct3D.
This does not make the brightness slider useable, but makes the game brighter.
  1. Open settings and go to Advanced options -> Rendering -> Direct3D Support.
  2. Change UseMultitexture to false.

Unable To Move After Starting The Game

Run in Windows 7 Compatibility[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\System.
  2. Right click on WoT.exe.
  3. Click on compatibility tab.
  4. Check Run this progam in compatibility mode and select Windows 7 from the drop down menu.
  5. Press Apply and start the game.


Laggy/jittery mouse input

Use MarkC's Mouse Acceleration Fix
  1. Go to this website.
  2. Follow the instructions on the site.

Lag when using DirectX 11 renderer

Edit Advanced Options.
  1. Go to Hardware.
  2. Select Advanced Options.
  3. In a new window open Rendering section.
  4. Open Direct3D 11 support section.
  5. Set SSR to False.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7, 11 Direct3D 11 support using the Unreal DirectX11 Renderer.
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes QuickTime
Multiplayer GameSpy

Utilities

Official Utilities

  • T.H.U.M.B: Provides a very easy way to reorganize/modify the slots of Ter'angreal and bind commands to the keyboard and mouse.
  • ServCon: Allows server creation without needing disc 2 inserted.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz Intel Pentium 2 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB 500 MB
Video card (GPU) Standard PCi Video Card 3DFx certified card

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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