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Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress	1982
Ultima III: Exodus	1983
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar	1985
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness	1987
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny	1988
Ultima VI: The False Prophet	1990
Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire	1990
Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams	1991
Ultima VII: The Black Gate	1992
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss	1992
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds	1993
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle	1993
Ultima VIII: Pagan	1994
Ultima Online	1997
Akalabeth: World of Doom	1998
Ultima IX: Ascension	1999

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Floppies or CD-ROM; see run in DOSBox (retail).
GOG.com		Pre-packaged with DOSBox.^[3] Includes Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss.
Origin		Included with EA Play. Not available in some regions.

Essential improvements

Patches

The Ultima Underworld 2 Patch is needed for floppy disk versions. The CD-ROM and GOG.com versions are already fully patched. An unofficial General MIDI patch is available here.

Run in DOSBox (retail)

To run correctly in DOSBox change cycles=auto to cycles=max.

Game data

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SAVE*\
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.ultima-underworld-1+2/Current.boxerstate/C Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.harddisk/UNDEROM2 <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}

The SAVE1, SAVE2, SAVE3 and SAVE4 folders are save slots I-IV. SAVE0 is temporary storage, not a save.

In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		For DOSBox toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter` (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

An alternate shades.dat is available here which will increase the overall brightness of the game without destroying it's atmosphere. Use it if you feel the game is too dark.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		To avoid mouse lag, set "sensitivity=200"
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-only after the opening cutscene.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the `priority` background value in the DOSBox configuration file.

Localizations

French, German, Korean and Polish retail versions only have the manuals translated; the game itself is still in English.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Spanish				Fan translation, download.

Issues fixed

Piano footstep sounds (GOG.com)

The GOG.com version's sound is incorrectly configured by default, resulting in misplaced effects such as piano sounds for footsteps.^[4]

Run Game DOS Settings^[5]
Choose `Game DOS Settings` at the menu when starting the game. Press `C` to confirm the hard drive to use. Use the keyboard arrow keys to go down to `Sound Blaster Pro`, then press `↵ Enter`. Press `↵ Enter` four times to confirm the other default sound settings (these do not need to be changed). Press `Y` to confirm your changes. Press any key twice to finish saving your changes.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	VGA

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	DOS 3.3 or higher
Processor (CPU)	IBM or 100% compatible 386SX, 386 or 486
System memory (RAM)	2 MB with Expanded Memory (EMS)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	11 MB
Video card (GPU)	256-color VGA graphics

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	48 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	45 MB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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

↑ New Release: Ultima Underworld 1+2 - GOG.com
↑ GOG.com goes Mac - GOG.com
↑ List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
↑ Problems with sound (quality, sound playing music etc.), page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
↑ Verified by User:Garrett on 7 August 2021
Sound Blaster Pro is the best audio option (that isn't Roland) because it supports dual OPL2 music.

[DOSBox_mounted-4] 1.0 ^1.1 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).

[1] New Release: Ultima Underworld 1+2 - GOG.com

[2] GOG.com goes Mac - GOG.com

[3] List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

[sound_problems-5] Problems with sound (quality, sound playing music etc.), page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

[6] Verified by User:Garrett on 7 August 2021
Sound Blaster Pro is the best audio option (that isn't Roland) because it supports dual OPL2 music.

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Developers

	Looking Glass Technologies
Publishers
	Origin Systems
Engines
	Underworld engine
Release dates
DOS	January 1993
Windows (DOSBox)	June 2, 2011^[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox)	October 18, 2012^[2]
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Immersive sim, RPG
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Ultima