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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
The Wheel of Time on Wikipedia

Warnings

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

Key points

Very small but active community.
Modification of the engine's advanced options in D3D rendering mode can cause the game to crash.

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.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

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

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[5]
  1. Patch the game to the latest version.
  2. Download this DDraw Wrapper
  3. Put it in <path-to-game>\System

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) Standard PCi Video 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]

References