Key points
- Released for free
- The unpatched game has issues on faster systems
- While the original Apple II version had music through sound card support and most other versions played music using their native sound hardware, the unpatched PC version doesn't have any music
General information
- Ultima Codex - A huge wiki for the series
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Essential improvements
Patches
- Ultima IV Upgrade Patch fixes the game's speed issues and adds the missing music to the game. Requires DOS or DOSBox to play however the patcher it's self is a Windows console app. For Mac or Linux use the DOS avpatch.exe.
Source ports
xu4 is a reverse engineered "source port" of the game for modern systems.
Game data
Save game data location
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PARTY.SAV contains the current party.
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MONSTERS.SAV contains the monsters table (data about NPCs and objects in the game world).[4]
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OUTMONST.SAV contains a backup of the monsters table.
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DNGMAP.SAV contains dungeon map data.[4]
Video settings
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)
Template:Video settings
Input settings
Template:Input settings
Audio settings
Template:Audio settings
Localizations
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| DOS video modes |
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System requirements
| Windows |
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Minimum | Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
XP, Vista | |
| Processor (CPU) |
1.8 GHz | |
| System memory (RAM) |
512 MB | 1 GB |
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) |
27 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 7 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
| macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
| Operating system (OS) |
10.6.8 |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+ |
| System memory (RAM) |
1 GB |
| Storage drive (HDD/SSD) |
2 GB |
| Video card (GPU) |
64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).
References
